Job 20:18

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

¹⁷ He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter. ¹⁸ That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice therein. ¹⁹ For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.

Ill-Gotten Gain

Job

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Job 20:10

His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.

Job 20:15

He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

Job 20:5

The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?

Job 31:25

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

Job 31:29

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;

Proverbs 1:12

let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;

Isaiah 24:7-11

The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were merry-hearted do sigh;

Jeremiah 11:15-16

What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing that the more part practise their evil devices, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? When thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

Jeremiah 22:13

Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his upper chambers by injustice; that taketh his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not his earning;

Jeremiah 22:17

But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it.

Jeremiah 51:34

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel; he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

Jeremiah 51:44

And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth what he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon is fallen.

Lamentations 2:16

All thine enemies open their mouth against thee, they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up; this is forsooth the day that we looked for: we have found, we have seen it.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for fierce anger is upon all the multitude thereof.

Hosea 8:7-8

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; should it sprout, it would yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

Hosea 9:1

Rejoice not, Israel, exultingly, as the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved harlot's hire upon every corn-floor.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,

Matthew 23:13

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for ye do not enter, nor do ye suffer those that are entering to go in.

Matthew 23:24

Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the camel.

James 4:8-9

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