Job 20:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Job 20:10 : 10 His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.
  • Job 20:15 : 15 He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
  • Job 31:25 : 25 If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;
  • Job 31:29 : 29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;
  • Prov 1:12 : 12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;
  • Isa 24:7-9 : 7 The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief. 8 The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad. 9 There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it. 10 The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.
  • Jer 11:15-16 : 15 About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way? 16 You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.
  • Jer 22:13 : 13 A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
  • Jer 51:34 : 34 Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.
  • Jer 51:44 : 44 And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer will the nations be flowing together to him: truly, the wall of Babylon will come down.
  • Lam 2:16 : 16 All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.
  • Ezek 7:12 : 12 The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow:
  • Hos 8:7-8 : 7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it. 8 Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.
  • Hos 9:1 : 1 Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.
  • Matt 23:24 : 24 You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.
  • Jas 4:8-9 : 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind. 9 Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
  • Job 20:5 : 5 That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 20:19-22
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    82%

    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.

  • Job 20:10
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    10 His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.

  • Prov 6:31
    77%

    31 But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.

  • Job 20:17
    76%

    17 Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.

  • Exod 22:11-12
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    11 If he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not put his hand to his neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his word for it and he will not have to make payment for it.

    12 But if it is taken from him by a thief, he is to make up for the loss of it to its owner.

  • Job 20:15
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    15 He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

  • Exod 22:3-6
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    3 But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.

    4 If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value.

    5 If a man makes a fire in a field or a vine-garden, and lets the fire do damage to another man's field, he is to give of the best produce of his field or his vine-garden to make up for it.

    6 If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the edge of the field, causing destruction of the cut grain or of the living grain, or of the field, he who made the fire will have to make up for the damage.

  • Lev 6:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4 Then having taken off his linen robes and put on other clothing, he is to take it away into a clean place, outside the tent-circle.

    5 The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it is never to go out; every morning the priest is to put wood on it, placing the burned offering in order on it, and there the fat of the peace-offering is to be burned.

  • Jer 22:13
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    13 A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

  • Job 20:27-28
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    74%

    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.

  • Ps 109:11
    74%

    11 Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.

  • Job 21:19-20
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    73%

    19 You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!

    20 Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!

  • Ezek 18:7
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    7 And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

  • Job 15:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Lev 25:27-28
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    73%

    27 Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.

    28 But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again.

  • Prov 22:16
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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.

  • Prov 6:35
    72%

    35 He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.

  • Job 34:11
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    11 For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.

  • Prov 19:17
    72%

    17 He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.

  • Prov 20:21
    72%

    21 A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.

  • Prov 12:14
    72%

    14 From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.

  • Prov 28:8
    72%

    8 He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

  • Job 21:31
    72%

    31 Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?

  • Job 27:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17 He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.

    18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

  • Hab 2:6
    72%

    6 Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

  • Job 5:5
    71%

    5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

  • Prov 13:11
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    11 Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

  • Eccl 5:12-15
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    71%

    12 There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

    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.

    15 And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

  • Prov 22:8
    71%

    8 By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

  • Prov 24:29
    71%

    29 Say not, I will do to him as he has done to me; I will give the man the reward of his work.

  • Eccl 6:2
    71%

    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.

  • Prov 21:18
    71%

    18 The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.

  • Prov 17:13
    70%

    13 If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.