Job 20:18

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

¹⁷ He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter. ¹⁸ He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce. ¹⁹ For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

Ill-Gotten Gain

Job

No

Job 20:10

His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.

Job 20:15

The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

Job 20:5

that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

Job 31:25

if I have rejoiced because of the extent of my wealth, or because of the great wealth my hand had gained,

Job 31:29

If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him --

Proverbs 1:12

We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

Isaiah 24:7-11

The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan.

Jeremiah 11:15-16

The Lord says to the people of Judah, "What right do you have to be in my temple, my beloved people? Many of you have done wicked things. Can your acts of treachery be so easily canceled by sacred offerings that you take joy in doing evil even while you make them?

Jeremiah 22:13

"'Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.

Jeremiah 22:17

But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

Jeremiah 51:34

"King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon devoured me and drove my people out. Like a monster from the deep he swallowed me. He filled his belly with my riches. He made me an empty dish. He completely cleaned me out."

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish the god Bel in Babylon. I will make him spit out what he has swallowed. The nations will not come streaming to him any longer. Indeed, the walls of Babylon will fall."

Lamentations 2:16

(Pe) All your enemies gloated over you. They sneered and gnashed their teeth; they said, "We have destroyed her! Ha! We have waited a long time for this day. We have lived to see it!"

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath comes against their whole crowd.

Hosea 8:7-8

They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

Hosea 9:1

O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly like the nations, for you are unfaithful to your God. You love to receive a prostitute's wages on all the floors where you thresh your grain.

Amos 8:4

Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

Matthew 23:13

"But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

Matthew 23:24

Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!

James 4:8-9

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