Job 20:18

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

¹⁷ He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter. ¹⁸ That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice. ¹⁹ For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

Ill-Gotten Gain

Job

No

Job 20:10

His sons shall seek the favor of the poor, and his hands shall give back his wealth.

Job 20:15

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

Job 20:5

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

Job 31:25

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

Job 31:29

if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who 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 who go down into the pit.

Isaiah 24:7-11

The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted do sigh.

Jeremiah 11:15-16

What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has wrought lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh has passed from thee? When thou do evil, then thou rejoice.

Jeremiah 22:13

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice, who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him not his hire,

Jeremiah 22:17

But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding 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, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his stomach with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

Jeremiah 51:44

And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow any more to him. Yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

Lamentations 2:16

All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found, we have seen it.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come; the day draws near. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all the multitude of it.

Hosea 8:7-8

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.

Hosea 9:1

Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy like the peoples, for thou have played the harlot, [departing] from thy God. Thou have loved hire upon every grain-floor.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, O ye who would swallow up a needy man, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.

Matthew 23:24

Ye blind guides, who strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel.

James 4:8-9

Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded.