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 to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
• Jer 51:44And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
• Prov 1:12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
• Job 20:15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
• Jer 22:13Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
• Jer 11:15–16What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
• Job 31:25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
• Isa 24:7–11The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
• Matt 23:24Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
• Jer 51:34Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
• Job 31:29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
• Job 20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
• Hos 8:7–8For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
• Matt 23:13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
• Jer 22:17But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
• Jas 4:8–9Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
• Amos 8:4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
• Lam 2:16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: 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, we have seen it.
• Hos 9:1Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
• Ezek 7:12The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

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