Job 20:21
Good News Translation
When they eat, there is nothing left over, but now their prosperity comes to an end.

New Revised Standard Version
There was nothing left after they had eaten; therefore their prosperity will not endure.

Contemporary English Version
But when nothing remains for them to grab, they will be nothing.

New American Bible
None of his survivors will consume it, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:

none of his meat be left.

Job 18:19 His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.

Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.

Luke 16:24,25 And he cried and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame. . . .

Context
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
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:22When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.…
Cross References
Job 15:21
The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.

Job 15:29
He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he push his root in the earth.

Job 20:20
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