Job 20:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:31 : 31 Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.
  • 2 Kgs 20:17 : 17 Truly, days are coming when everything in your house, and whatever your fathers have put in store till this day, will be taken away to Babylon: all will be gone, says the Lord.
  • Job 5:5 : 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.
  • Job 20:10 : 10 His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.
  • Job 20:18-22 : 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.
  • Job 21:30 : 30 How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?
  • Job 27:14-19 : 14 If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread. 15 When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them. 16 Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing; 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. 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.
  • Prov 11:4 : 4 Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.
  • Zeph 1:18 : 18 Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.
  • Matt 16:26 : 26 For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
  • Jas 5:1-3 : 1 Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you. 2 Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing. 3 Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.
  • Rev 18:17 : 17 For in one hour such great wealth has come to nothing. And every shipmaster, and all who are sailing on the sea, and sailors and all who get their living by the sea, were watching from far away,

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    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.

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    29 This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.

  • Job 21:20-21
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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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  • Job 20:18-23
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    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.

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  • Job 15:28-30
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    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.

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    30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

  • Job 27:20-22
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    20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

    21 The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.

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  • Job 22:18
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    18 Though he made their houses full of good things: but the purpose of the evil-doers is far from me!

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    15 In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

    16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

    17 His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

    18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

    19 He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

    20 At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

  • Eccl 5:14
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    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 27:13-14
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    13 This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all.

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    3 A store of wealth will be in his house, and his righteousness will be for ever.

  • Prov 20:21
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    21 A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.

  • 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 28:28
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    28 When evil-doers are lifted up, men take cover; but when destruction overtakes them, the upright are increased.

  • Job 21:30
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    30 How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

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    9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

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    11 The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.

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    4 Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.

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    20 The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.

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    12 The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

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    29 The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

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    22 The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.

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    15 He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.

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

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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;

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    6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

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    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.

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    13 And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

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    22 Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.