Job 20:28

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:31 : 31 Your 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.
  • 2 Kgs 20:17 : 17 ‘Look, a time is coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the LORD.
  • Job 5:5 : 5 The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.
  • Job 20:10 : 10 His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.
  • Job 20:18-22 : 18 He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce. 19 For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build. 20 For 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. 22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.
  • Job 21:30 : 30 that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?
  • Job 27:14-19 : 14 If his children increase– it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat. 15 Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them. 16 If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay, 17 what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver. 18 The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made. 19 He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.
  • Prov 11:4 : 4 Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
  • Zeph 1:18 : 18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s angry judgment. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery wrath. Indeed, he will bring terrifying destruction on all who live on the earth.”
  • Matt 16:26 : 26 For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
  • Jas 5:1-3 : 1 Warning to the Rich Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!
  • Rev 18:17 : 17 because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!” And every ship’s captain, and all who sail along the coast– seamen, and all who make their living from the sea, stood a long way off

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  • Job 20:26-27
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    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.

    27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

  • Job 20:29
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    29Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God.”

  • Job 21:20-21
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    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 20:18-23
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    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.

    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.

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

  • Job 15:28-30
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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.

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

  • Job 27:20-22
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    20Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.

    21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

    22It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

  • Job 22:18
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    18But it was he who filled their houses with good things– yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.

  • Job 18:15-20
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    15Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

    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,

  • Eccl 5:14
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    14Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.

  • Job 27:13-14
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    13This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.

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

  • Ps 112:3
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    3His house contains wealth and riches; his integrity endures.

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

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

  • Prov 28:28
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    28When the wicked gain control, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

  • Job 21:30
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    30that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?

  • Hab 2:9
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    9The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. He does this so he can build his nest way up high and escape the clutches of disaster.

  • Prov 14:11
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    11The household of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

  • Prov 11:4
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    4Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

  • Job 15:20-21
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    20All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.

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

  • Prov 21:12
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    12The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin.

  • Prov 11:29
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    29The one who troubles his family will inherit nothing, and the fool will be a servant to the wise person.

  • Prov 13:22
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    22A good person leaves an inheritance for his grandchildren, but the wealth of a sinner is stored up for the righteous.

  • Job 8:15
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    15He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.

  • Job 27:18
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    18The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.

  • 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 18:6-7
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    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

    7His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.

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

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.

  • Ps 112:10
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    10When the wicked see this, they will worry; they will grind their teeth in frustration and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.

  • Ps 37:22
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    22Surely those favored by the LORD will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.