Job 20:18

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

¹⁷ He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter. ¹⁸ He is giving back what he laboured for, And doth not consume it; As a bulwark is his exchange, and he exults not. ¹⁹ For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

Ill-Gotten Gain

Job

No

Job 20:10

His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.

Job 20:15

Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.

Job 20:5

That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

Job 31:25

If I rejoice because great is my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,

Job 31:29

If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

Proverbs 1:12

We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down to the pit,

Isaiah 24:7-11

Mourned hath the new wine, languished the vine, Sighed have all the joyful of heart.

Jeremiah 11:15-16

What -- to My beloved in My house, Her doing wickedness with many, And the holy flesh do pass over from thee? When thou dost evil, then thou exultest.

Jeremiah 22:13

Woe to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, And his upper chambers by injustice, On his neighbour he layeth service for nought, And his wage he doth not give to him.

Jeremiah 22:17

But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

Jeremiah 51:34

Devoured us, crushed us, hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, He hath set us as an empty vessel, He hath swallowed us as a dragon, He hath filled his belly with my dainties, He hath driven us away.

Jeremiah 51:44

And I have seen after Bel in Babylon, And I have brought forth that which he swallowed -- from his mouth, And flow no more unto him do nations, Also the wall of Babylon hath fallen.

Lamentations 2:16

Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: 'We have swallowed her up, Surely this is the day that we looked for, We have found -- we have seen.'

Ezekiel 7:12

Come hath the time, arrived hath the day, The buyer doth not rejoice, And the seller doth not become a mourner, For wrath is unto all its multitude.

Hosea 8:7-8

For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.

Hosea 9:1

'Rejoice not, O Israel, be not joyful like the peoples, For thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God, Thou hast loved a gift near all floors of corn.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

Matthew 23:13

'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.

Matthew 23:24

'Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.

James 4:8-9

draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!