Job 20:18
In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
17Let him not see in the channels the flowings of torrents of honey and milk.
19For he hath oppressed—hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:33The fruit of thy soil, and all thy toilsome produce, shall a people whom thou knowest not, eat up,—and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed, all the days;
Job 20:10His children, shall seek the favour of the poor, and, his own hand, shall give back his wealth.
Job 31:25If I rejoiced because great was my substance, and, an abundance, my hand had discovered;
Proverbs 1:12Let us engulf them, like hades, alive, While in health, like them who are going down to the pit;
Jeremiah 11:15Why hath the beloved in mine own house, done an abomination? Shall, vows and holy flesh, take away from thee thy wickednesses, or shalt thou by these, escape?
Jeremiah 22:17Verily thou hast neither eyes nor heart, save for thy plundering and for thy shedding of innocent blood, and for oppression and for crushing to do 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 →