Job 15:29

World English Bible (2000)

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

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  • Job 27:16-17 : 16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay; 17 he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
  • Ps 49:16-17 : 16 Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased. 17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.
  • 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."
  • Luke 16:2 : 2 He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'
  • Luke 16:19-22 : 19 "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. 20 A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
  • Jas 1:11 : 11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
  • Jas 5:1-3 : 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.
  • Job 20:22-28 : 22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him. 23 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating. 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through. 25 He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him. 26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent. 27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him. 28 The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.
  • Job 22:15-20 : 15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden, 16 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream, 17 who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?' 18 Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 19 The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them, 20 saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

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  • Job 15:30-32
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    30He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

    31Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

    32It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

  • Job 15:28
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    28He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

  • Job 18:14-19
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    14He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.

    15There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.

    16His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

    17His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

    19He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

  • Job 27:19
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    19He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

  • Job 8:15
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    15He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

  • Ps 49:16-17
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    16Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased.

    17For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

  • Job 7:10
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    10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

  • Job 20:7-9
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    76%

    7yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

    8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

    9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.

  • Eccl 5:14
    76%

    14Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

  • Job 20:20-21
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    20"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

    21There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

  • Job 27:14-15
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    76%

    14If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

    15Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

  • Eccl 8:13
    75%

    13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

  • Ps 49:19
    75%

    19he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

  • Job 20:26-28
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    74%

    26All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

    28The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.

  • Job 36:19
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    19Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

  • Job 15:21
    74%

    21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

  • Job 14:2
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    2He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

  • Job 30:24
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    24"However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

  • Ps 37:10
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    10For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.

  • Job 20:17-18
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    17He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

    18That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

    11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • Prov 11:28
    73%

    28He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

  • Job 24:18
    73%

    18"They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.

  • Prov 27:24
    73%

    24for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.

  • Ps 49:9
    72%

    9That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

  • Ps 112:3
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    3Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.

  • Ps 49:12
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    12But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

  • Prov 10:3
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    3Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

  • Job 21:32
    72%

    32Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

  • Job 21:21
    72%

    21For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

  • Ps 129:7
    72%

    7with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.