Job 20:18

A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long

¹⁷ He shall not see the rivers, the flowings of the brooks of honey and butter, ¹⁸ giving back his gain, and he will not eat. As to the wealth of his trading, even he shall not enjoy it. ¹⁹ For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it.

Ill-Gotten Gain

Job

No

Job 20:10

His sons shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore his wealth.

Job 20:15

He swallows riches, but vomits it; God shall cast them out of his belly.

Job 20:5

that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly is for a moment?

Job 31:25

if I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

Job 31:29

If I rejoiced at the ruin of my hater, and I was excited when evil found him;

Proverbs 1:12

let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit;

Isaiah 24:7-11

The new wine mourns, the vine droops, all the merry-hearted sigh.

Jeremiah 11:15-16

What is to My beloved in My house, since she has committed her many evils? And has the holy flesh caused your evil to pass from you? How then do you exult?

Jeremiah 22:13

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him for his work;

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.

Jeremiah 51:34

Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel. He has swallowed me up like a jackal; he has filled his belly with good things; he has thrown me out;

Jeremiah 51:44

And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow together any more to him; yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all her multitude.

Hosea 8:7-8

For they sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal; if it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

Hosea 9:1

O Israel, rejoice not for joy, like the peoples. For you have gone lusting away from your God; you have loved a reward on every grain floor.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample the poor, even to make the humble of the land to fail,

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

Matthew 23:24

Blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

James 4:8-9

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, double-minded ones.