Job 20:29

World English Bible (2000)

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God."

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 27:13 : 13 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
  • Job 31:2-3 : 2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high? 3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
  • Job 18:21 : 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."
  • Deut 29:20-28 : 20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky. 21 Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law. 22 The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick; 23 [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 even all the nations shall say, "Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?" 25 Then men shall say, "Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them: 27 therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book; 28 and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day."
  • Ps 11:5-6 : 5 Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates. 6 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
  • Lam 3:38 : 38 Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
  • Matt 24:51 : 51 and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 27:13-14
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    87%

    13"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

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

  • Job 20:26-28
    3 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Ps 11:6
    75%

    6On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

  • Job 21:30
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    30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

  • Job 31:2-3
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    2For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

    3Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

  • Ps 37:22
    74%

    22For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • Job 18:21
    74%

    21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

  • Prov 21:7
    73%

    7The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

  • Job 22:18
    73%

    18Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Job 21:19-20
    2 verses
    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.

  • Job 20:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

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

    23When 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.

  • Prov 13:22
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    22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

  • Job 21:16-17
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    72%

    16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

    17"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

  • Ps 28:4
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    4Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

  • Job 15:20
    72%

    20the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

  • Prov 21:12
    72%

    12The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.

  • Job 36:17
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    17"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Isa 3:11
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    11Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

  • Prov 3:33
    72%

    33Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

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

  • Job 15:29-30
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    71%

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

    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.

  • Job 27:22
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    22For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

  • Prov 10:29
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    29The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

  • Prov 29:27
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    27A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

  • Job 20:18-19
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    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.

    19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

  • Eccl 5:19
    71%

    19Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God.

  • Prov 24:20
    71%

    20for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.

  • Ps 34:21
    70%

    21Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

  • Prov 21:29
    70%

    29A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

  • Ps 112:10
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    10The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

  • Eccl 8:13
    70%

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

  • Prov 2:22
    70%

    22But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

  • Job 36:6
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    6He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.

  • Job 18:16
    70%

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

  • Job 18:18
    70%

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

  • Ps 52:7
    70%

    7"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."

  • Ps 37:16
    70%

    16Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

  • Prov 24:15
    70%

    15Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:

  • Ps 109:11
    70%

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

  • Prov 16:4
    70%

    4Yahweh has made everything for its own end-- yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

  • Prov 14:32
    70%

    32The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.