Job 5:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Then hungry and greedy people gobble up their crops and grab their wealth.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:11

So he let Assyrian army commanders invade Judah and capture Manasseh. They put a hook in his nose and tied him up in chains, and they took him to Babylon.

Job 1:15

a gang of Sabeans attacked and stole the oxen and donkeys! Your other servants were killed, and I was the only one who escaped to tell you.”

Job 1:17

Before that servant finished speaking, a third one raced up and said, “Three gangs of Chaldeans attacked and stole your camels! All your other servants were killed, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you.”

Job 12:6

Robbers and other godless people live safely at home and say, “God is in our hands!”

Job 2:3

Then the LORD asked, “What do you think of my servant Job? No one on earth is like him—he is a truly good person, who respects me and refuses to do evil. And he hasn't changed, even though you persuaded me to destroy him for no reason.”

Job 20:15

Then God will make them lose the wealth they gobbled up.

Job 20:22

Once they have everything, distress and despair will strike them down,

Job 22:10

That's why you were suddenly trapped by terror,

Psalm 109:11

“Let the people he owes take everything he owns. Give it all to strangers.

Isaiah 62:8

The LORD has given his word and made this promise: “Never again will I give to your enemies the grain and grapes for which you struggled.

Jeremiah 51:34

The people of Jerusalem say, “King Nebuchadnezzar made us panic. That monster stuffed himself with us and our treasures, leaving us empty— he gobbled up what he wanted and spat out the rest.

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Marduk, the god of Babylon, and make him vomit everything he gobbled up. Then nations will no longer bring him gifts, and Babylon's walls will crumble.

Lamentations 2:16

Zion, your enemies curse you and snarl like wild animals, while shouting, “This is the day we've waited for! At last, we've got you!”

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord was like an enemy! He left Israel in ruins with its palaces and fortresses destroyed, and with everyone in Judah moaning and weeping.

Hosea 8:7

If you scatter wind instead of wheat, you will harvest a whirlwind and have no wheat. Even if you harvest grain, enemies will steal it all.

Deuteronomy 28:33

You will work hard on your farms, but everything you harvest will be eaten by foreigners, who will ill-treat you and abuse you for the rest of your life.

Deuteronomy 28:51

They will take your cattle, sheep, goats, grain, wine, and olive oil, then leave you to starve.

Judges 6:11

One day an angel from the LORD went to the town of Ophrah and sat down under the big tree that belonged to Joash, a member of the Abiezer clan. Joash's son Gideon was nearby, threshing grain in a shallow pit, where he could not be seen by the Midianites.