Job 15:20

American Standard Version (1901)

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

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  • Job 24:1 : 1 Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days?
  • Job 27:13 : 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty:
  • Ps 90:3-4 : 3 Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.
  • Ps 90:12 : 12 So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.
  • Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.
  • Luke 12:19-21 : 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. 20 But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be? 21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
  • Rom 8:22 : 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
  • Jas 5:1-6 : 1 Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one] ; he doth not resist you.

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