Job 20:18
He is giving back [what] he laboured for, And doth not consume [it]; As a bulwark [is] his exchange, and he exults not.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
17He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:33The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days;
Job 20:10His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.
Job 31:25If I rejoice because great [is] my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,
Proverbs 1:12We swallow them as Sheol — alive, And whole — as those going down [to] the pit,
Jeremiah 11:15What — to My beloved in My house, Her doing wickedness with many, And the holy flesh do pass over from thee? When thou dost evil, then thou exultest.
Jeremiah 22:17But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.
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 →