Job 20:18
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice [therein].
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
17He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:33The fruit of thy ground and all thy labour, shall a people that thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed continually.
Job 20:10His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.
Job 31:25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
Proverbs 1:12let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;
Jeremiah 11:15What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing that the more part practise their evil devices, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? When thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
Jeremiah 22:17But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it.
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 →