Job 20:18

He must give back the fruit of his labor and cannot enjoy his profits. His gains bring him no lasting joy.

Cross-references · 20

• Job 20:10His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.
• Jer 51:44I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations shall not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
• Prov 1:12Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
• Job 20:15He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
• Jer 22:13“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
• Jer 11:15–16What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.”
• Job 31:25If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
• Isa 24:7–11The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.
• Matt 23:24You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
• Jer 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.
• Job 31:29“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him
• Job 20:5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
• Hos 8:7–8For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
• Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
• Jer 22:17But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
• Jas 4:8–9Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• Amos 8:4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
• Lam 2:16All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
• Hos 9:1Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
• Ezek 7:12The time has come! The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.

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