Job 20:21

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:29 : 29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
  • Job 18:19 : 19 He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
  • Luke 16:24-25 : 24 He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.' 25 "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 20:17-20
    4 verses
    85%

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

    18 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.

    19 For 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.

  • Job 20:22-23
    2 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Job 20:26
    77%

    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.

  • Job 15:28-30
    3 verses
    76%

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

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

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

  • Job 18:17-20
    4 verses
    74%

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

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

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

    20 Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

  • Isa 9:20
    74%

    20 One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:

  • Job 20:8-10
    3 verses
    74%

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

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

    10 His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.

  • Job 33:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

    21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

  • Job 27:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Job 20:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13 though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

    14 yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

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

  • Job 20:28
    73%

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

  • Eccl 6:2
    72%

    2 a 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.

  • Job 18:12
    72%

    12 His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.

  • Job 15:21
    72%

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

  • Job 21:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Job 27:19
    72%

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

  • Job 22:20
    72%

    20 saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

  • Gen 41:31
    72%

    31 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

  • Deut 28:55
    71%

    55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.

  • Prov 13:23
    71%

    23 An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

  • Mic 6:14
    71%

    14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

  • Eccl 6:7
    71%

    7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

  • Ps 49:17
    71%

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

  • Eccl 5:14
    71%

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

  • Ps 109:11
    71%

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

  • Job 7:10
    70%

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

  • Job 36:19
    70%

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

  • Job 21:25
    70%

    25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

  • Deut 28:51
    70%

    51 and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

  • Deut 28:31
    70%

    31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.

  • Eccl 5:11
    70%

    11 When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

  • Prov 6:35
    70%

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

  • Job 5:5
    70%

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

  • Job 24:20
    70%

    20 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.