Job 20:21 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²¹ There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ There shall none of his meat be left; Therefore shall no man look for his goods.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ There was nothing left that he did not devour; therefore his prosperity will not endure.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Common English Bible

²¹ Nothing remained of their food, so their riches will not endure.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Nothing remained of his portion, and, because of this, nothing will continue of his kind.

Job 20:21 Cross References

Job 15:21

Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

Job 15:29

he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will he strike root in the earth;

Job 18:19

He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.

Isaiah 5:9

The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing: “Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge that gathers a brood which she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by right; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.

Amos 3:10

“They do not know how to do right,” says the Lord, “those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”

Amos 3:11

Therefore thus says the Lord God: “An adversary shall surround the land, and bring down your defenses from you, and your strongholds shall be plundered.”