Job 20:21
There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
In Context
20For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.
22In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.
Cross References
Job 18:19He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
Isaiah 5:9By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!
Amos 3:10And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.
Luke 16:24and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame.
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 →