Job 20:21

A Conservative Version

There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

Job 18:19

He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.

Job 15:29

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

Job 15:21

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

Isaiah 5:9

In my ears [says] LORD of hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

Amos 3:10

For they do not know to do right, says LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Amos 3:11

Therefore thus says lord LORD: An adversary [shall be], even round about the land, and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be plundered.