Job 20:18
He will be repaid for all he has done, yet he will not be consumed; according to the multitude of his schemes, so also will he suffer.
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In Context
17(May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.)
19For, having broken in, he stripped the poor. He has quickly stolen away a house he did not build.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:33May a people you do not know eat the fruits of your land and of all your labors. And may you continually suffer from slander and oppression every day.
Job 20:10His sons will be worn away by poverty, and his own hands will deliver his grief to him.
Job 31:25if I have rejoiced over my great success, and over the many things my hand has obtained;
Proverbs 1:12Let us swallow him alive, like Hell, and whole, like one descending into the pit.
Jeremiah 11:15Why has my beloved wrought great wickedness in my house? How can the holy flesh take away from you your wickedness, in which you have gloried?
Jeremiah 22:17Yet truly, your eyes and your heart are toward avarice and the shedding of innocent blood, and toward false accusations and the pursuit of evil deeds.
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 →