Job 20:18

World English Bible (2000)

That 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.

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  • Job 20:10 : 10 His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.
  • Job 20:15 : 15 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
  • Job 31:25 : 25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
  • Job 31:29 : 29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;
  • Prov 1:12 : 12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
  • Isa 24:7-9 : 7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. 9 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it. 10 The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.
  • Jer 11:15-16 : 15 What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has worked lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice. 16 Yahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.
  • Jer 22:13 : 13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
  • Jer 51:34 : 34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.
  • Jer 51:44 : 44 I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
  • Lam 2:16 : 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
  • Ezek 7:12 : 12 The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.
  • Hos 8:7-8 : 7 For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up. 8 Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
  • Hos 9:1 : 1 Don't rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
  • Matt 23:24 : 24 You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and 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 purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
  • Job 20:5 : 5 that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 20:19-22
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    19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

    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.

    22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

  • Job 20:10
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    10His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.

  • Prov 6:31
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    31but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

  • Job 20:17
    76%

    17He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

  • Exod 22:11-12
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    76%

    11the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

    12But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.

  • Job 20:15
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    15He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

  • Exod 22:3-6
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    3If the sun has risen on him, guilt of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

    4If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

    5"If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.

    6"If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

  • Lev 6:4-5
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    75%

    4then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

    5or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.

  • Jer 22:13
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    13Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;

  • Job 20:27-28
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    74%

    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.

  • Ps 109:11
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    11Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

  • Job 21:19-20
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    73%

    19You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

    20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • Ezek 18:7
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    7and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

  • Job 15:28-29
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    28He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

  • Lev 25:27-28
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    27then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

    28But if he isn't able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

  • Prov 6:35
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    35He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

  • Job 34:11
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    11For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

  • Prov 19:17
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    17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

  • Prov 20:21
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    21An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.

  • Prov 12:14
    72%

    14A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man's hands shall be rewarded to him.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

  • Job 21:31
    72%

    31Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

  • Job 27:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

    18He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

  • Hab 2:6
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    6Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'

  • Job 5:5
    71%

    5whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

  • Prov 13:11
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    11Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

  • Eccl 5:12-15
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    71%

    12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

    13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

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

    15As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

  • Eccl 5:20
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    20For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.

  • Prov 22:8
    71%

    8He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

  • Prov 24:29
    71%

    29Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."

  • Eccl 6:2
    71%

    2a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

  • Prov 21:18
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    18The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; the treacherous for the upright.

  • Prov 17:13
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    13Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.