Job 20:28
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28 The possessions of their house will be carried away,
dragged off in the day of God’s[a] wrath.(A)
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- 20.28 Heb his
Job 27:14-19
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14 If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword,
and their offspring have not enough to eat.(A)
15 Those who survive them the pestilence buries,
and their widows make no lamentation.(B)
16 Though they heap up silver like dust
and pile up clothing like clay,(C)
17 they may pile it up, but the just will wear it,
and the innocent will divide the silver.(D)
18 They build their houses like nests,
like booths made by sentinels of the vineyard.
19 They go to bed with wealth but will do so no more;
they open their eyes, and it is gone.(E)
Revelation 18:17
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17 For in one hour all this wealth has been laid waste!”
And all shipmasters and seafarers, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off(A)
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James 5:1-3
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Warning to Rich Oppressors
5 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. 2 Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten.(A) 3 Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure[a] during the last days.
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- 5.3 Or will eat your flesh, since you have stored up fire
Matthew 16:26
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26 For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?
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Zephaniah 1:18
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18 Neither their silver nor their gold
will be able to save them
on the day of the Lord’s wrath;
in the fire of his passion
the whole earth shall be consumed,
for a full, a terrible end
he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.(A)
Proverbs 11:4
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4 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.(A)
Job 21:30
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30 that the wicked are spared in the day of calamity
and are rescued in the day of wrath?(A)
Job 20:18-22
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18 They will give back the fruit of their toil
and will not swallow it down;
from the profit of their trading
they will get no enjoyment.(A)
19 For they have crushed and abandoned the poor;
they have seized a house that they did not build.(B)
20 “For they knew no quiet in their bellies;
in their greed they let nothing escape.(C)
21 There was nothing left after they had eaten;
therefore their prosperity will not endure.(D)
22 In full sufficiency they will be in distress;
all the force of misery will come upon them.
Job 20:10
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10 Their children will seek the favor of the poor,
and their hands will give back their wealth.(A)
Job 5:5
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5 The hungry eat their harvest,
and they take it even out of the thorns,[a]
and the thirsty[b] pant after their wealth.(A)
2 Kings 20:17
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17 Days are coming when all that is in your house and that which your ancestors have stored up until this day shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the Lord.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:31
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31 Your ox shall be butchered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it. Your donkey shall be stolen in front of you and shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies without anyone to help you.
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