Job 20:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

Cross References

Job 20:10

His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.

Job 20:15

He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

Job 20:5

That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

Job 27:17

He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.

Job 31:25

If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

Job 31:29

If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

Job 31:8

Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

Proverbs 1:12

Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

Proverbs 21:20

There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.

Jeremiah 22:13

A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

Jeremiah 51:34

Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.

Jeremiah 51:44

And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer will the nations be flowing together to him: truly, the wall of Babylon will come down.

Lamentations 2:16

All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow:

Hosea 9:1

Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.

Amos 8:4

Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

Matthew 23:13

But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

Matthew 23:24

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.

Deuteronomy 28:30

You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

Deuteronomy 28:33

The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever: