Job 20:18

A Conservative Version

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.

Cross References

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.

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,

Proverbs 1:12

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.

Job 20:15

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

Job 20:10

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

Matthew 23:24

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

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.

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 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.

Job 31:29

if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

Job 31:25

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

Job 20:5

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

Amos 8:4

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

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.

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.

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.

Job 27:17

he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Job 31:8

then let me sow, and let another eat, yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

Proverbs 21:20

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of a wise man, but a foolish man swallows it up.

Deuteronomy 28:30

Thou shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lay with her. Thou shall build a house, and thou shall not dwell in it. Thou shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.

Deuteronomy 28:33

The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation eat up which thou know not. And thou shall only be oppressed and crushed always,