Job 20:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 78:30-31 : 30 They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths, 31 When the anger of God went up against them, Killed some of the fattest of them, And struck down the young men of Israel.
  • Num 11:33 : 33 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
  • Ps 11:6 : 6 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; Fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
  • Gen 19:24 : 24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
  • Exod 9:23 : 23 Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
  • Isa 21:4 : 4 My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
  • Mal 2:2 : 2 If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Hosts, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
  • Luke 12:17-20 : 17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?' 18 He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 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?'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 20:20-22
    3 verses
    84%

    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 20:24-29
    6 verses
    80%

    24He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.

    25He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

    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.

    29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, The heritage appointed to him by God."

  • Job 20:13-18
    6 verses
    79%

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

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

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

    16He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

    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.

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

  • Job 18:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

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

    13The members of his body shall be devoured, The firstborn of death shall devour his members.

  • 22For it hurls at him, and does not spare, As he flees away from his hand.

  • 25The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, But the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

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

  • 20One shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

  • 24Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

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

  • 20A man's stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.

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    5Then he will speak to them in his anger, And terrify them in his wrath:

  • 19Behold, the tempest of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yes, a whirling tempest: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.

  • 18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, Like oil into his bones.

  • 26Yes, they who eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow; and many shall fall down slain.

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

  • 24Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

  • 9You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

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    23I will heap evils on them; I will spend my arrows on them:

    24[They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat Bitter destruction; The teeth of animals will I send on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

  • 20Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.

  • 9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, He will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

  • 14You 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.

  • 17All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

  • 23Behold, the tempest of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping tempest: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.

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

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

  • 33While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 22Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

  • 13His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

  • 8The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, And lose your good words.

  • 7The steps of his strength shall be shortened, His own counsel shall cast him down.

  • 22For a servant when he is king; A fool when he is filled with food;

  • 23If the scourge kills suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.