Job 27:19
Good News Translation
One last time they will lie down rich, and when they wake up, they will find their wealth gone.

New Revised Standard Version
They go to bed with wealth, but will do so no more; they open their eyes, and it is gone.

Contemporary English Version
Those sinners may go to bed rich, but they will wake up poor.

New American Bible
He lies down a rich man, one last time; he opens his eyes—nothing is there.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.

shall lie

Job 14:13-15 Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me? . . .

Job 21:23-26,30 One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy. . . .

Job 30:23 I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

gathered

Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.

Jeremiah 8:2 And they shall spread them abroad to the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom have walked, and whom they have sought, and adored: they shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried: they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth.

Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

Matthew 23:37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not?

he openeth

Job 20:7-9 In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he? . . .

Psalm 58:9 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

Psalm 73:19,20 How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity. . . .

he is not

Job 8:22 They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.

Job 14:10,12 But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he? . . .

Job 24:24 They are lifted up for a little while and shall not stand, and shall be brought down as all things, and shall be taken away, and as the tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken.

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Context
The Wicked Man's Portion
18He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth. 19The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.20Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:…
Cross References
Job 7:8
Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more.

Job 7:21
Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.

Job 20:7
In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?

Job 27:18
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