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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  • Job 20:21-23
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    21 There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

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

    23 When 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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    12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,

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

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

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

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

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

    18 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.

    19 For 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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    28 And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

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

    30 He 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
    3 verses
    74%

    26 All 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.

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

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

  • Job 33:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20 So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.

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

  • Job 15:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

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

  • Job 20:8-10
    3 verses
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    8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

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

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

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

  • Job 21:20-21
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    20 Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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

  • Job 27:19-20
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    19 He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers] ; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

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

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

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

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

  • Job 18:17-19
    3 verses
    71%

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

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

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

  • 20 The 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 14 Thou 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 2 a 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.