Job 20:20

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 5:13-14 : 13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt: 14 and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
  • Isa 57:20-21 : 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

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    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.

    23When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating.

  • Job 20:12-19
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    12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,

    13Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;

    14Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.

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

    16He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him.

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

    18That 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.

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

  • Job 15:28-30
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    28And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

    30He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.

  • Job 20:26-28
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    26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.

    28The increase of his house shall depart; [His goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

  • Job 33:20-21
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    20So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.

    21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.

  • Job 15:20-21
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    20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

    21A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

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

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    8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

    9The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.

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

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    19Will thy cry avail, [that thou be] not in distress, Or all the forces of [thy] strength?

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

    21For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

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    19He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers] ; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

    20Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

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    22But his flesh upon him hath pain, And his soul within him mourneth.

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    25The desire of the sluggard killeth him; For his hands refuse to labor.

    26There is that coveteth greedily all the day long; But the righteous giveth and withholdeth not.

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    17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

    19He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

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    20The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

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    24Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

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    25The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul; But the belly of the wicked shall want.

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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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    12His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.

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    14Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt put away, but shalt not save; and that which thou savest will I give up to the sword.

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    22For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.

  • Eccl 5:17
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    17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.

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    10The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: The desire of the wicked shall perish.

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    3Jehovah will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish; But he thrusteth away the desire of the wicked.

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    25And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth of good.

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    15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

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    14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

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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.