Job 20:21
There was nothing left that he devoured not — therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
In Context
20Because he knew no quietness within him, in his greed he suffered nought to escape,
Cross References
Job 18:19He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
Isaiah 5:9In mine ears said the LORD of hosts: of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
Amos 3:10For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
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 →