Job 20:19 - Exposition

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor . These charges are now for the first time insinuated against Job; later on, they are openly brought by Eliphaz ( Job 22:5-9 ). Job denies them categorically in Job 29:11-17 . They seem to have been pure calumnies, without an atom of foundation. Because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not. Another calumny, doubtless. Something like it was insinuated by Eliphaz in Job 15:28 .