Job 20:21
When they finished eating their food, there was never anything left over because they had greedily eaten it all; but now their prosperity will end.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
In Context
Cross References
Job 18:19They will have no children or grandchildren, no descendants where they previously lived.
Isaiah 5:9But I heard the Commander of the armies of angels solemnly declare this: “ Some day, many of those huge houses will be empty/deserted; no one will be living in those beautiful mansions.
Amos 3:10Yahweh says that the people there do not know how to do things that are right. Their homes are filled with valuable things that they have stolen or taken violently from others.
Luke 16:24So he shouted, ‘Father Abraham, I am suffering very much in this fire! So please pity me, and send Lazarus here so that he can dip his finger in water and touch my tongue to cool 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 →