Job 20:18 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁸ He gives back what he toiled for without swallowing it; he will not enjoy the riches of his trade.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ That which he laboured for shall he restore, And shall not swallow it down: According to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ That which he labored for shall he give back and shall not swallow it down [to enjoy it]; according to his wealth shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice in it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ They won’t receive the reward for their labor; they won’t enjoy the wealth from their business.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ He will be repaid for all he has done, yet he will not be consumed; according to the multitude of his schemes, so also will he suffer.

Job 20:18 Tagairtí Cros

Job 20:10

His children must recompense the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.

Job 20:15

He swallows riches and vomits them up; God empties it out of his stomach.

Job 20:5

that the triumph of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?

Job 27:17

what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and the upright will divide the silver.

Job 31:25

if I rejoiced because of my great wealth or because of the abundance my hand acquired,

Job 31:29

“If I rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortune or gloated because calamity found him—

Job 31:8

then let me sow and another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.

Proverbs 1:12

Let’s swallow them alive like Sheol— still healthy, as they go down to the Pit!

Proverbs 21:20

Precious treasure and oil are in a wise person’s dwelling, but a foolish person devours all he has.

Jeremiah 22:13

Oy to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his roof-chambers by injustice, that makes his neighbor work without pay, never giving him his wages,

Jeremiah 22:17

“But your eyes and your heart are only on your unjust gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and committing extortion and fraud.”

Jeremiah 51:34

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me, crushed me, set me aside like an empty dish, swallowed me up like a dragon, filled his belly with my delicacies, rinsed me away.”

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Bel in Babylon— What he swallowed I will make him disgorge out of his mouth. Nations will no longer stream to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon has fallen!

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies opened their mouth wide against you; they hissed and gnashed their teeth, and say, “We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day we have waited for; we have lived to see it!”

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come—the day draws near. The buyer will not rejoice, the seller will not play the mourner, for wrath is on the entire crowd.

Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, O Israel, do not celebrate like the peoples— for so you have gone whoring away from your God. You have loved a prostitute’s pay, on every grain-threshing-floor.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample the poor, destroying the afflicted of the land

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not enter yourselves, nor do you let those enter who are trying to go in.

Matthew 23:24

O blind guides, straining out a gnat while swallowing a camel!

Deuteronomy 28:30

“You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will sleep with her. You will build a house, but you will not dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not put it to use.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people you do not know will eat up the produce of your soil and all your labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the time.