Job 20 · Verse 15

Job 20:15

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Job 20:15, King James Version

Job 20:15 in other translations

BSBHe swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
WEBHe has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
ASVHe hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.
YLTWealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.
DARBYHe hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again:God shall cast them out of his belly.
BBEHe takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
WebsterHe hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

What does Job 20:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
15. He is forced to disgorge his ill-gotten wealth.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 He shall vomit them up again - This is also an allusion to an effect of most ordinary poisons; they occasion a nausea, and often excruciating vomiting; nature striving to eject what it knows, if retained, will be its bane.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 20:10-22

The miserable condition of the wicked man in this world is fully set forth. The lusts of the flesh are here called the sins of his youth. His hiding it and keeping it under his tongue, denotes concealment of his beloved lust, and delight therein. But He who knows what is in the heart, knows what is under the tongue, and will discover it. The love of the world, and of the wealth of it, also is wickedness, and man…

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Job 20:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

חַ֣יִלCha.yilwealthH2428
בָּ֭לַעBa.la'he swallowsH1104
וַיְקִאֶ֑נּוּvay.ki.'E.nuand he has vomited up itH6958
מִ֝בִּטְנ֗וֹmi.bit.Nofrom belly hisH990
יוֹרִשֶׁ֥נּוּyo.ri.She.nuhe drives out itH3423
אֵֽל\׃'ElGodH410

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 20:15

  • Proverbs 23:8

    The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

  • Matthew 27:3-4

    Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
swallowed.
Pr 23:8; Mt 27:3,4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 20:14

    Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

  • Job 20:15

    He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

  • Job 20:16

    He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.

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Job 20:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Devoró riquezas, mas vomitarálas; de su vientre las sacará Dios.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Il a avalé les richesses, et il les vomira; ✶Dieu les chassera de son ventre.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Reichtum hat er verschlungen, und er speit ihn aus: aus seinem Bauche treibt Gott ihn heraus.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Divitias quas devoravit evomet, et de ventre illius extrahet eas Deus.