Job 20:18

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He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.

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  • Job 20:10 : 10 His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.
  • Job 20:15 : 15 The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.
  • Job 31:25 : 25 if I have rejoiced because of the extent of my wealth, or because of the great wealth my hand had gained,
  • Job 31:29 : 29 If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him–
  • Prov 1:12 : 12 We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.
  • Isa 24:7-9 : 7 The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan. 8 The happy sound of the tambourines stops, the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt, the happy sound of the harp ceases. 9 They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it. 10 The ruined town is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight. 11 They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; all joy turns to sorrow; celebrations disappear from the earth.
  • Jer 11:15-16 : 15 The LORD says to the people of Judah,“What right do you have to be in my temple, my beloved people? Many of you have done wicked things. Can your acts of treachery be so easily canceled by sacred offerings that you take joy in doing evil even while you make them? 16 I, the LORD, once called you a thriving olive tree, one that produced beautiful fruit. But I will set you on fire, fire that will blaze with a mighty roar. Then all your branches will be good for nothing.
  • Jer 22:13 : 13 Judgment on Jehoiakim“‘Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.
  • Jer 51:34 : 34 “King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon devoured me and drove my people out. Like a monster from the deep he swallowed me. He filled his belly with my riches. He made me an empty dish. He completely cleaned me out.”
  • Jer 51:44 : 44 I will punish the god Bel in Babylon. I will make him spit out what he has swallowed. The nations will not come streaming to him any longer. Indeed, the walls of Babylon will fall.”
  • Lam 2:16 : 16 פ(Pe) All your enemies gloated over you. They sneered and gnashed their teeth; they said,“We have destroyed her! Ha! We have waited a long time for this day. We have lived to see it!”
  • Ezek 7:12 : 12 The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath comes against their whole crowd.
  • Hos 8:7-8 : 7 The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up. 8 Israel will be swallowed up among the nations; they will be like a worthless piece of pottery.
  • Hos 9:1 : 1 Fertility Cult Festivals Have Intoxicated Israel O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly like the nations, for you are unfaithful to your God. You love to receive a prostitute’s wages on all the floors where you thresh your grain.
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 “But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.
  • Matt 23:24 : 24 Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!
  • Jas 4:8-9 : 8 Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.
  • Job 20:5 : 5 that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 20:19-22
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    19For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

    20For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

    21“Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

    22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.

  • Job 20:10
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    10His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.

  • Prov 6:31
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    31Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house.

  • Job 20:17
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    17He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.

  • Exod 22:11-12
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    11then there will be an oath to the LORD between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods, and its owner will accept this, and he will not have to pay.

    12But if it was stolen from him, he will pay its owner.

  • Job 20:15
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    15The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

  • Exod 22:3-6
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    3If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.

    4If the stolen item should in fact be found alive in his possession, whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double.

    5“If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard, and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

    6“If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.

  • Lev 6:4-5
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    4when it happens that he sins and he is found guilty, then he must return whatever he had stolen, or whatever he had extorted, or the thing that he had held in trust, or the lost thing that he had found,

    5or anything about which he swears falsely. He must restore it in full and add one fifth to it; he must give it to its owner when he is found guilty.

  • Jer 22:13
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    13Judgment on Jehoiakim“‘Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.

  • Job 20:27-28
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    27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

    28A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

  • Ps 109:11
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    11May the creditor seize all he owns! May strangers loot his property!

  • Job 21:19-20
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    19You may say,‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may be humbled!

    20Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

  • Ezek 18:7
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    7does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,

  • Job 15:28-29
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    28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

    29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

  • Lev 25:27-28
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    27he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.

    28If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.

  • Prov 6:35
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    35He will not consider any compensation; he will not be willing, even if you multiply the compensation.

  • Job 34:11
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    11For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.

  • Prov 19:17
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    17The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the LORD, and the LORD will repay him for his good deed.

  • Prov 20:21
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    21An inheritance gained easily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

  • Prov 12:14
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    14A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy.

  • Job 21:31
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    31No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

  • Job 27:17-18
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    17what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver.

    18The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.

  • Hab 2:6
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    6The Proud Babylonians Are as Good as Dead“But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings:‘Woe to the one who accumulates what does not belong to him(How long will this go on?)– he who gets rich by extortion!’

  • Job 5:5
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    5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.

  • Prov 13:11
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    11Wealth gained quickly will dwindle away, but the one who gathers it little by little will become rich.

  • Eccl 5:12-15
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    12The sleep of the laborer is pleasant– whether he eats little or much– but the wealth of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

    13Materialism Thwarts Enjoyment of Life Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.

    14Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.

    15Just as he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked will he return as he came, and he will take nothing in his hand that he may carry away from his toil.

  • Eccl 5:20
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    20For he does not think much about the fleeting days of his life because God keeps him preoccupied with the joy he derives from his activity.

  • Prov 22:8
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    8The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.

  • Prov 24:29
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    29Do not say,“I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will pay him back according to what he has done.”

  • Eccl 6:2
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    2God gives a man riches, property, and wealth so that he lacks nothing that his heart desires, yet God does not enable him to enjoy the fruit of his labor– instead, someone else enjoys it! This is fruitless and a grave misfortune.

  • Prov 21:18
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    18The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the treacherous are taken in the place of the upright.

  • Prov 17:13
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    13As for the one who repays evil for good, evil will not leave his house.