Job 20:18

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

¹⁷ He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. ¹⁸ “He returns what he has attained
And cannot swallow it;
As to the riches of his trading,
He cannot even enjoy them.
¹⁹ Because he oppressed and forsook the poor; because he has violently taken away houses which he did not build,

Ill-Gotten Gain

Job

No

Job 20:10

His poor sons shall go forth begging, and their hands shall restore that which he stole.

Job 20:15

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

Job 20:5

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

Job 31:25

if I rejoiced because my wealth was being multiplied, and because my hand had gotten much;

Job 31:29

If I rejoiced at the destruction of the one that hated me or lifted up myself when evil found 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 is lost; the vine is sick; all those who were merryhearted sigh.

Jeremiah 11:15-16

What part has my beloved in my house, seeing she has wrought lewdness with many? The holy flesh shall pass from upon thee, for in thy evil thou didst glory.

Jeremiah 22:13

Woe unto him that builds his house and not in righteousness and his chambers and not in judgment, using his neighbour's service without wages and not giving him the wages of his work!

Jeremiah 22:17

But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness and for to shed innocent blood and for oppression and for violence, to do it.

Jeremiah 51:34

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

Jeremiah 51:44

And I will visit Bel himself in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the Gentiles shall not flow together any more unto him; and the wall of Babylon shall fall.

Lamentations 2:16

Pe All thine enemies opened their mouths regarding thee; they whistled and gnashed their teeth; they said, Swallow her up; certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time is come, the day draws near; do not let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

Hosea 8:7-8

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; they shall have no harvest; the fruit shall yield no meal: if so be it yields, the strangers shall swallow it up.

Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, O Israel, for joy, as the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved the salary of a harlot upon every threshing floor.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, and cut off 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 in front of men, for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye those that are entering to go in.

Matthew 23:24

Ye blind guides, who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.

James 4:8-9

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