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Job 20:18

They will have to give back what they have gained and will not have any benefit; they will not enjoy any of their profits.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

17They will not live to enjoy the streams, the rivers of milk and honey.

19For they have oppressed and abandoned the poor; they have seized houses they did not build.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:33A foreign nation you've never heard of will eat all the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will be continually persecuted and downtrodden.

Job 20:10Their children will have to pay back the poor; they will have to return their wealth.

Job 31:25Have I delighted in being rich, happy at all my wealth I had gained?

Proverbs 1:12Let's bury them alive; let's put them in the grave while they're still healthy!

Jeremiah 11:15What right do the people I love have to be in my Temple when they've done so many evil things? Do you think the meat of sacrifices will save you? When disaster strikes will you be happy?

Jeremiah 22:17But all you're looking for, all you think about, is getting whatever you want, however dishonestly. You kill the innocent, you violently mistreat and exploit your people.

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 →

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