Job 20:18

A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long

¹⁷ “He does not look at the streams,
The rivers flowing with honey and curds.
¹⁸ “He returns what he has attained
And cannot swallow it;
As to the riches of his trading,
He cannot even enjoy them.
¹⁹ “For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor;
He has seized a house which he has not built.

Ill-Gotten Gain

Job

No

Job 20:10

“His sons favor the poor,
And his hands give back his wealth.

Job 20:15

“He swallows riches,
But will vomit them up;
God will expel them from his belly.

Job 20:5

That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
And the joy of the godless momentary?

Job 31:25

If I have gloated because my wealth was great,
And because my hand had secured so much;

Job 31:29

“Have I rejoiced at the extinction of my enemy,
Or exulted when evil befell him?

Proverbs 1:12

Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;

Isaiah 24:7-11

The new wine mourns,
The vine decays,
All the merry-hearted sigh.

Jeremiah 11:15-16

“What right has My beloved in My house
When she has done many vile deeds?
Can the sacrificial flesh take away from you your disaster,
So that you can rejoice?”

Jeremiah 22:13

“Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness
And his upper rooms without justice,
Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay
And does not give him his wages,

Jeremiah 22:17

“But your eyes and your heart
Are intent only upon your own dishonest gain,
And on shedding innocent blood
And on practicing oppression and extortion.”

Jeremiah 51:34

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me,
He has set me down like an empty vessel;
He has swallowed me like a monster,
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
He has washed me away.

Jeremiah 51:44

“I will punish Bel in Babylon,
And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth;
And the nations will no longer stream to him.
Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies
Have opened their mouths wide against you;
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, “We have swallowed her up!
Surely this is the day for which we waited;
We have reached it, we have seen it.”

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come, the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude.

Hosea 8:7-8

For they sow the wind
And they reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
It yields no grain.
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.

Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations!
For you have played the harlot, forsaking your God.
You have loved harlots’ earnings on every threshing floor.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land,

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

Matthew 23:24

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

James 4:8-9

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.