Job 20:18
He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
17He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:33A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
Job 20:10His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
Job 31:25if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
Proverbs 1:12let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
Jeremiah 11:15What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom? When you are wicked, then you rejoice.
Jeremiah 22:17“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
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 →