Job 20:18

American Standard Version (1901)

That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.

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  • Job 20:10 : 10 His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his hands shall give back his wealth.
  • Job 20:15 : 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.
  • Job 31:25 : 25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;
  • Job 31:29 : 29 If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;
  • Prov 1:12 : 12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
  • Isa 24:7-9 : 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
  • Jer 11:15-16 : 15 What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest. 16 Jehovah called thy name, A green olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
  • Jer 22:13 : 13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbor's service without wages, and giveth him not his hire;
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
  • Jer 51:34 : 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed [ me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.
  • Jer 51:44 : 44 And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
  • Lam 2:16 : 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide 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.
  • Ezek 7:12 : 12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
  • Hos 8:7-8 : 7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up. 8 Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein none delighteth.
  • Hos 9:1 : 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, [departing] from thy God; thou hast loved hire upon every grain-floor.
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter. [
  • Matt 23:24 : 24 Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!
  • Jas 4:8-9 : 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
  • Job 20:5 : 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?

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    19For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

    20Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.

    21There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

    22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.

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    10His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his hands shall give back his wealth.

  • Prov 6:31
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    31But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; He shall give all the substance of his house.

  • Job 20:17
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    17He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

  • Exod 22:11-12
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    11the oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, whether he hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods; and the owner thereof shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

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  • Job 20:15
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    15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.

  • Exod 22:3-6
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    3If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him; he shall make restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

    4If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall pay double.

    5If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

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  • Lev 6:4-5
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    4then it shall be, if he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he hath gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

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    13Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbor's service without wages, and giveth him not his hire;

  • Job 20:27-28
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    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.

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    11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labor.

  • Job 21:19-20
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    19[Ye say], God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:

    20Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • Ezek 18:7
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    7and hath not wronged any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

  • Job 15:28-29
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    28And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

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    27then let him reckon the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return unto his possession.

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    16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [gain], [And] he that giveth to the rich, [shall come] only to want.

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    35He will not regard any ransom; Neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

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    17He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto Jehovah, And his good deed will he pay him again.

  • Prov 20:21
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    21An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

  • Prov 12:14
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    8He that augmenteth his substance by interest and increase, Gathereth it for him that hath pity on the poor.

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    31Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?

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  • Hab 2:6
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    11Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.

  • Eccl 5:12-15
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    12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

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    14and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

    15As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

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    20For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.

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    8He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

  • Prov 24:29
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    29Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.

  • Eccl 6:2
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    2a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

  • Prov 21:18
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    18The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; And the treacherous [cometh] in the stead of the upright.

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    13Whoso rewardeth evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house.