Job 27:13 - Exposition

This is the portion of a wicked men with God . In "this" Job includes all that follows from verse 14 to verse 23—"this, which I am going to lay down." He pointedly takes up the words of Zophar in Job 20:29 , admitting their general truth. And the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty . Retribution is "their portion ," "their heritage ," i.e. the natural result and consequence of their precedent sin.