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Job 20:15
15Like a person who is sick and loses the food from his stomach, God will cause the wicked person to lose all his riches.
Job 20:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
- New International Version (NIV)He will spit out the riches he swallowed; God will make his stomach vomit them up.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He swallows down riches And vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.
Context of Job 20:15
13He continues to enjoy wicked things, like the taste of sweet food that he keeps in his mouth. 14But those things will become poison that hurts him. Like bitter food that goes into his stomach. Like a person who is sick and loses the food from his stomach, God will cause the wicked person to lose all his riches. 16He will drink the poison of snakes. A dangerous snake will bite him and it will kill him. 17He will never enjoy the good things that the earth provides. He will not enjoy the honey and milk which pours out like rivers of water.
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חַ֣יִל בָּ֭לַע וַיְקִאֶ֑נּוּ מִ֝בִּטְנ֗וֹ יוֹרִשֶׁ֥נּוּ אֵֽל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 20:15
- Proverbs 23:8Even if you only eat a little of his food, it will make you sick. All your nice words to him will be useless.
- Matthew 27:3Judas heard that the Jewish leaders wanted the Roman rulers to kill Jesus. Judas was the man who had helped Jesus' enemies to take hold of him. Now he was very sorry about what he had done. So he took back the 30 silver coins to the leaders of the priests and the important Jews.
Commentaries on Job 20:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15He shall vomit them up again - This is also an allusion to an effect of most ordinary poisons; they occasion a nausea, and often excruciating vomiting; nature striving to eject what it knows, if retained, will be its bane.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15He hath swallowed down riches - He has “glutted” down riches - or gormandized them - or devoured them greedily. The Hebrew word בלע bela‛ means “to absorb, to devour with the idea of greediness.” It is descriptive of the voracity of a wild beast, and means here that he had devoured them eagerly, or voraciously. And he shall vomit - As an epicure does that which he has drunk or swallowed with delight. “Noyes.” The idea is, that he shall lose that which he…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-22Verses 10-22 The miserable condition of the wicked man in this world is fully set forth. The lusts of the flesh are here called the sins of his youth. His hiding it and keeping it under his tongue, denotes concealment of his beloved lust, and delight therein. But He who knows what is in the heart, knows what is under the tongue, and will discover it. The love of the world, and of the wealth of it, also is wickedness, and man sets his heart upon these…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-16venom of cobras … poison of cobras … vipers: In the end, evil people harm only themselves, not others (Matthew 3:7; Romans 3:13; Proverbs 23:29–35).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. He is forced to disgorge his ill-gotten wealth.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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