Job 20:18
He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
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In Context
17Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:33The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:
Job 20:10His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.
Job 31:25If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;
Proverbs 1:12Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;
Jeremiah 11:15About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?
Jeremiah 22:17But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
Matthew Henry on Job 20:11-23
Misery of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; 13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again:… Read the whole commentary →