Job 20:18

Authorized King James Version (1611)

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein].

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  • Job 20:10 : 10 ¶ His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
  • Job 20:15 : 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
  • Job 31:25 : 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth [was] great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
  • Job 31:29 : 29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
  • Prov 1:12 : 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
  • Isa 24:7-9 : 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 [There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
  • Jer 11:15-16 : 15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, [seeing] she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest. 16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, [and] of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
  • Jer 22:13 : 13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do [it].
  • Jer 51:34 : 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
  • Jer 51:44 : 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
  • Lam 2:16 : 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up: certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen [it].
  • Ezek 7:12 : 12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath [is] upon all the multitude thereof.
  • Hos 8:7-8 : 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. 8 ¶ Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure.
  • Hos 9:1 : 1 ¶ Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as [other] people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 ¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 ¶ ‹But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in› [yourselves], ‹neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.›
  • Matt 23:24 : 24 [Ye] ‹blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.›
  • Jas 4:8-9 : 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
  • Job 20:5 : 5 That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 20:19-22
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    19Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

    20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

    21There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

    22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

  • Job 20:10
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    10¶ His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

  • Prov 6:31
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    31But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

  • Job 20:17
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    17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

  • Exod 22:11-12
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    11[Then] shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept [thereof], and he shall not make [it] good.

    12And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

  • Job 20:15
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    15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

  • Exod 22:3-6
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    3If the sun be risen upon him, [there shall be] blood [shed] for him; [for] he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

    4If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.

    5If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

    6If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed [therewith]; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

  • Lev 6:4-5
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    75%

    4Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

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    13Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

  • Job 20:27-28
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    27The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

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

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    11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

  • Job 21:19-20
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    19God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it].

    20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • Ezek 18:7
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    7And hath not oppressed any, [but] hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

  • Job 15:28-29
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    28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

  • Lev 25:27-28
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    27Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

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  • Prov 19:17
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    17¶ He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

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    21¶ An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

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  • Prov 28:8
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  • Job 21:31
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    31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him [what] he hath done?

  • Job 27:17-18
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    17He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

    18He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.

  • Hab 2:6
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  • Job 5:5
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    5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

  • Prov 13:11
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    11¶ Wealth [gotten] by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

  • Eccl 5:12-15
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    12The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

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    14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.

    15As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

  • Eccl 5:20
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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.

  • Prov 22:8
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    8¶ He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

  • Prov 24:29
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    29Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.

  • Eccl 6:2
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    2A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.

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