Job 20:18 Cross References - LEB

¹⁸ Returning the products of his toil, he will not swallow;* according to the profit of his trade, _⌊he will not enjoy_⌋,*

⁵ that the rejoicing of the wicked is _⌊short_⌋,* and the joy of the godless _⌊lasts only a moment_⌋?*

¹⁰ His children will seek favors from the poor, and his hands will return his wealth.

¹⁵ He swallows riches, but* he vomits them* up; God drives them* out from his stomach.

²⁵ if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great or* because my hand found a fortune,

²⁹ "If I have rejoiced at the ruin of the one who hated me or* have exulted when evil overtook him—

¹² Like Sheol,* we will swallow them alive and whole, _⌊like those who descend to the pit_⌋.*

⁷ The new wine dries up; the vine languishes. All the merry of heart sigh; ⁸ the joy of the tambourine has stopped. The noise of the jubilant has ceased; the joy of the lyre has stopped. ⁹ They do not drink wine with song; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it. ¹⁰ The city of emptiness is broken; every house is shut _⌊so that no one can enter_⌋;* ¹¹ there is an outcry over the wine in the streets. All joy turns into _⌊darkness_⌋;* the joy of the earth disappears.

¹⁵ _⌊What rights has my beloved in my house_⌋* when she has done many wicked things?* Can the flesh of holiness pass over you? For _⌊you engage in your wickedness_⌋,* then you exult. ¹⁶ Yahweh called your name, 'A leafy olive tree, _⌊beautiful with fine fruit_⌋.'* With the sound of a great storm he will set fire to it, and its branches will be good for nothing.

¹³ Woe to the one who builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice. His fellow countryman, he works for nothing, and he does not give to him his wages.*

¹⁷ "But there is nothing in your eyes and your heart _⌊except_⌋* your unlawful gain, and on shedding the blood of the innocent, and on committing oppression and extortion."

³⁴ Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me and sucked me dry; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like the sea monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has rinsed me.

⁴⁴ And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will wrench out from his mouth _⌊what he has swallowed_⌋.* And the nations will not stream towards him any longer _⌊what's worse_⌋,* the wall of Babylon has fallen.

¹⁶ They have opened their mouths against you, all your enemies. They hiss and gnash a tooth, and they say, "We have destroyed her! Surely this is the day we have hoped for; we have found it, we have seen it!"

¹² The time has come, the day has arrived; let not the buyer rejoice, and let the seller not mourn, for anger is on all their multitude.

⁷ Because they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind. The standing grain does not have heads;* it will not yield flour. And if it would yield, strangers would devour it. ⁸ Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations, like an object that no one desires.

¹ Do not rejoice, O Israel, do not exult like the nations! For you played the whore, departing from your God; you loved a harlot's wage on all the threshing floors of grain.

⁴ Hear this, those who trample on the poor and who annihilate the afflicted of the land,

¹³ "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you shut the kingdom of heaven before people! For you do not enter, nor permit those wanting to go in* to enter.*

²⁴ Blind guides who filter out a gnat and swallow a camel!

⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded! ⁹ Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your* joy to gloominess.