Job 20:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:29 : 29 He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
  • Job 18:19 : 19 He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”
  • Luke 16:24-25 : 24 So he called out,‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this fire.’ 25 But Abraham said,‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

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  • Job 20:17-20
    4 verses
    85%

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

    18He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.

    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.

  • Job 20:22-23
    2 verses
    81%

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

    23“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

  • Job 20:26
    77%

    26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

  • Job 15:28-30
    3 verses
    76%

    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.

    30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

  • Job 18:17-20
    4 verses
    74%

    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

    19He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

    20People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

  • Isa 9:20
    74%

    20They devoured on the right, but were still hungry, they ate on the left, but were not satisfied. People even ate the flesh of their own arm!

  • Job 20:8-10
    3 verses
    74%

    8Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

    9People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

    10His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.

  • Job 33:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.

    21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

  • Job 27:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14If his children increase– it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

    15Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.

  • Job 20:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,

    14his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.

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

  • Job 20:28
    73%

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

  • Eccl 6:2
    72%

    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.

  • Job 18:12
    72%

    12Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

  • Job 15:21
    72%

    21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.

  • Job 21:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

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

    21For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

  • Job 27:19
    72%

    19He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

  • Job 22:20
    72%

    20‘Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.’

  • Gen 41:31
    72%

    31The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe.

  • Deut 28:55
    71%

    55He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating(since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

  • Prov 13:23
    71%

    23Abundant food may come from the field of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice.

  • Mic 6:14
    71%

    14You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.

  • Eccl 6:7
    71%

    7All of man’s labor is for nothing more than to fill his stomach– yet his appetite is never satisfied!

  • Ps 49:17
    71%

    17For he will take nothing with him when he dies; his wealth will not follow him down into the grave.

  • Eccl 5:14
    71%

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

  • Ps 109:11
    71%

    11May the creditor seize all he owns! May strangers loot his property!

  • Job 7:10
    70%

    10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

  • Job 36:19
    70%

    19Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts?

  • Job 21:25
    70%

    25And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

  • Deut 28:51
    70%

    51They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.

  • Deut 28:31
    70%

    31Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.

  • Eccl 5:11
    70%

    11When someone’s prosperity increases, those who consume it also increase; so what does its owner gain, except that he gets to see it with his eyes?

  • Prov 6:35
    70%

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

  • Job 5:5
    70%

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

  • Job 24:20
    70%

    20The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.