Job 20:15
Good News Translation
The wicked vomit up the wealth they stole; God takes it back, even out of their stomachs.

New Revised Standard Version
They swallow down riches and vomit them up again; God casts them out of their bellies.

Contemporary English Version
Then God will make them lose the wealth they gobbled up.

New American Bible
The riches he swallowed he shall vomit up; God shall make his belly disgorge them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.

swallowed

Proverbs 23:8 The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.

Matthew 27:3,4 Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned, repenting himself, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and ancients, . . .

Context
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
14His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him, 15The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.16He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.…
Cross References
Job 20:10
His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.

Job 20:14
His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him,

Job 20:18
He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.

Job 20:20
And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them.

Job 20:28
The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath.

Psalm 109:11
May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.

Proverbs 21:20
There is a treasure to be desired, and oil in the dwelling of the just: and the foolish man shall spend it.

Jeremiah 51:34
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath devoured me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats, and he hath cast me out.

Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself with thick clay?

Job 20:14
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