Job 20:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.”
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“He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.”
King James Version · Public Domain“That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“He is giving back <FI>what<Fi> he laboured for, And doth not consume <FI>it<Fi> ; As a bulwark <FI>is<Fi> his exchange, and he exults not.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 20:18 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:30You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.
- Deuteronomy 28:33A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
- Job 20:5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
- Job 20:10His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
- Job 20:15He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
- Job 31:25if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
- Job 31:29If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
- Proverbs 1:12let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
- Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
- Jeremiah 11:15What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom, so that you can rejoice?
- Jeremiah 22:13“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
- Jeremiah 22:17“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
- Jeremiah 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
- Jeremiah 51:44I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
- Lamentations 2:16All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
- Ezekiel 7:12The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.
- Hosea 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
- Hosea 9:1Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
- Matthew 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
- Matthew 23:24You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
- James 4:8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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