Job 15:20

World English Bible (2000)

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 24:1 : 1 "Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?
  • Job 27:13 : 13 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
  • Ps 90:3-4 : 3 You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men." 4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.
  • Ps 90:12 : 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
  • Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
  • Luke 12:19-21 : 19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."' 20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?' 21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
  • Rom 8:22 : 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
  • Jas 5:1-6 : 1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies. 5 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.

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