Job 20:15
He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
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- Prov 23:8 : 8 The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
- Matt 27:3-4 : 3 Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority, 4 Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.
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- Job 20:10-145 verses86%
10 His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.
11 His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.
12 Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;
13 Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;
14 His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
- Job 20:16-2813 verses82%
16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
17 Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.
18 He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
19 Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
20 There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.
21 He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.
22 Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.
23 God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
24 He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;
25 He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.
26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.
27 The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.
28 The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.
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8 The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
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20 Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!
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20 With the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach will be full; the produce of his lips will be his in full measure.
- Job 15:27-304 verses71%
27 Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;
28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.
29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.
30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.
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25 The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.
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35 Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.
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18 He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
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19 They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.
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22 God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.
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13 And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.
14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
- Job 27:19-202 verses69%
19 He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.
20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.
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16 If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.
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13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
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7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.
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14 Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:
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12 His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.
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21 A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:
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21 So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.
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2 A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.
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16 He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.
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7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
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15 He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made
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25 Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.
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7 See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.
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19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
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10 The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.
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15 For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.