Job 20:10

New International Reader's Version

Their children must pay back what they took from poor people. Their own hands must give back the wealth they stole.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:6

The man must pay back four times as much as that lamb was worth. How could he do such a thing? And he wasn’t even sorry he had done it.”

Job 20:15

They will spit out the rich food they swallowed. God will make their stomachs throw it up.

Job 20:18

What they worked for they must give back before they can eat it. They won’t enjoy what they have earned.

Job 27:14

All their children will be killed by swords. They’ll never have enough to eat.

Job 4:11

Lions die because they don’t have any food. Then their cubs are scattered.

Job 5:4

Their children aren’t safe at all. They lose their case in court. No one speaks up for them.

Psalm 109:10

May their children be driven from their destroyed homes. May they wander around like beggars.

Exodus 12:36

The Lord had caused the Egyptians to treat the Israelites in a kind way. So the Egyptians gave them what they asked for. The Israelites took many expensive things that belonged to the Egyptians.

Exodus 22:1

“Suppose someone steals an ox or a sheep. And suppose that person kills it or sells it. Then the thief must pay back five oxen for the ox. Or the thief must pay back four sheep for the sheep.

Exodus 22:3

But suppose it happens after the sun has come up. Then you are guilty of murder. “Anyone who steals must pay for whatever they steal. But suppose the thief does not have anything. Then the thief must be sold to pay for what was stolen.

Exodus 9:2

Do not refuse to let them go. Do not keep holding them back.

Proverbs 28:3

A ruler who treats poor people badly is like a pounding rain that leaves no crops.

Proverbs 6:31

But when he is caught, he must pay seven times as much as he stole. It may even cost him everything he has.

Luke 19:8

But Zacchaeus stood up. He said, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of what I own to those who are poor. And if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay it back. I will pay back four times the amount I took.”