Job 20:18

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

¹⁷ He won't look at the rivers the torrents of honey and curd. ¹⁸ "He will restore what he has attained from his work and won't consume it; he won't enjoy the profits from his business transactions, ¹⁹ because he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he didn't build.

Ill-Gotten Gain

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Job 20:10

His sons will make amends to the poor; their hands will return his wealth.

Job 20:15

"Though he swallows wealth, he will vomit it; God will dislodge it from his stomach.

Job 20:5

The wicked triumph only briefly; the joy of the godless is momentary.

Job 31:25

if I've found joy in great wealth that I own, if I've earned a lot with my own hands,

Job 31:29

"Have I rejoiced in the destruction of those who hate me, or have I been happy that evil caught up with him?

Proverbs 1:12

Let's swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those who go down into the Pit.

Isaiah 24:7-11

The new wine evaporates; the vine and the oil dry up; all the merrymakers groan.

Jeremiah 11:15-16

"What right does my beloved have in my house, when she has carried out many evil schemes? Can sacrificial flesh turn disaster away from you, so you can rejoice?"

Jeremiah 22:13

"How terrible for him who builds his house without righteousness, and its upper rooms without justice, who makes his neighbor work for nothing, and does not pay him his wage.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and heart are on nothing but your dishonest gain, shedding the blood of innocent people, and practicing oppression and extortion."

Jeremiah 51:34

"King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me. He set me down like an empty vessel. He swallowed me like a monster, and filled his belly with my delicacies. Then he washed me away.

Jeremiah 51:44

I'll punish Bel in Babylon, and I'll make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth. The nations will no longer stream to him. Even the wall of Babylon will fall.

Lamentations 2:16

All of your enemies insult you with gaping mouths. They hiss and grind their teeth while saying, "We have devoured her completely. Yes, this is the day that we anticipated! We found it at last; we have seen it!"

Ezekiel 7:12

"The time has come!

Hosea 8:7-8

"Because they sow the wind, they will reap the wind storm. The plant has no stalk and its bud yields no grain. Even if there's a harvest, foreigners will gobble it up.

Hosea 9:1

"Don't celebrate, Israel, like other nations would rejoice, because you left your God by committing fornication, loving the profit you gained on all of the threshing floors.

Amos 8:4

"Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, who intend to make the poor of the land fail,

Matthew 23:13

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom from heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in.

Matthew 23:24

You blind guides! You filter out a gnat, yet swallow a camel!

James 4:8-9

Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.