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Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked

Job 20:15

In 11 translations

BSB
He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
KJV
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
WEB
He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
ASV
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.
LSV
He has swallowed wealth, and vomits it. God drives it out from his belly.
YLT
Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.
DBY
He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.El
DRC
The riches which he hath swallowed; he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.
GNV
He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.
JPS
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly.
LXXE
His wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up; a messenger of wrath shall drag him out of his house.

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Original-language editions

WLC
חַ֣יִל בָּ֭לַע וַיְקִאֶ֑נּוּ מִ֝בִּטְנ֗וֹ יוֹרִשֶׁ֥נּוּ אֵֽל׃
LXX-Br
Πλοῦτος ἀδίκως συναγόμενος ἐξεμεθήσεται, ἐξ οἰκίας αὐτοῦ ἐξελκύσει αὐτὸν ἄγγελος.

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  • Proverbs 23:8You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
  • Matthew 27:3–4When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders. “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said.…

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