◄ Job 20:20 ►
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Good News Translation
Their greed is never satisfied.

New Revised Standard Version
“They knew no quiet in their bellies; in their greed they let nothing escape.

Contemporary English Version
Greedy people want everything and are never satisfied.

New American Bible
For he has known no quiet in his greed, in his treasure he cannot save himself.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Surely

Ecclesiastes 5:13,14 There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner. . . .

Isaiah 57:20,21 But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire. . . .

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Context
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
…19Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build. 20And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them.21There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:…
Cross References
Job 20:15
The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.

Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.

Job 20:19
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