Job 20:18
That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down.According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
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In Context
17He shall not look at the rivers,the flowing streams of honey and butter.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:33The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you do not know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always;
Job 20:10His children shall seek the favor of the poor.His hands shall give back his wealth.
Job 31:25If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great,and because my hand had gotten much;
Proverbs 1:12let's swallow them up alive like Sheol,and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
Jeremiah 11:15"What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.
Jeremiah 22:17''But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do 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 →