Job 20:18
He has labored unprofitably and in vain, for wealth of which he shall not taste: 1 It is as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he cannot swallow. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
17Let him not see the milk of the pastures, 1 Nor the supplies of honey and butter. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:33A nation which thou knowest not shall eat the produce of thy land, and all thy labors; and thou shalt be injured and crushed always.
Job 20:10Let his inferiors destroy his children, 1 And let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow. 1
Job 31:25And if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, 1 And if too I laid my hand on innumerable treasures 1
Proverbs 1:12And let us swallow him alive, as Hades would, 1 And remove the memorial of him from the earth: 1
Jeremiah 11:15Why has my beloved wrought abomination in my house? will prayers and holy offerings take away thy wickedness from thee, or shalt thou escape by these things?
Jeremiah 22:17Behold, thine eyes are not good, nor thy heart, but they go after thy covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.
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 →