20:10 His sons must recompense
his own hands
20:18 He gives back the ill-gotten gain
without assimilating it;
he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.
20:19 For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them;
he has seized a house which he did not build.
20:20 For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite;
he does not let anything he desires
20:21 “Nothing is left for him to devour;
that is why his prosperity does not last.
20:22 In the fullness of his sufficiency,
distress
the full force of misery will come upon him.
5:5 The hungry
and take it even from behind the thorns,
and the thirsty
27:14 If his children increase – it is for the sword!
His offspring never have enough to eat.
27:15 Those who survive him are buried by the plague,
and their
27:16 If he piles up silver like dust
and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,
27:17 what he stores up
and an innocent man will inherit his silver.
27:18 The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon,
like a hut
27:19 He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more.
When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.
27:2 “As surely as God lives,
the Almighty, who has made my life bitter
20:17 He will not look on the streams,
the rivers, which are the torrents
of honey and butter.
18:17 because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!”
And every ship’s captain,