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Job 20:15

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20:15The wealth that he consumed27 he vomits up,

God will make him throw it out28 of his stomach.

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Footnotes

  1. 27 Heb “swallowed.”
  2. 28 The choice of words is excellent. The verb יָרַשׁ (yarash) means either “to inherit” or “to disinherit; to dispossess.” The context makes the figure clear that God is administering the emetic to make the wicked throw up the wealth (thus, “God will make him throw it out …”); but since wealth is the subject there is a disinheritance meant here.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

He swallows down riches and vomits them up again;

God casts them out of his belly.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

He will spit out the riches he swallowed;

God will make his stomach vomit them up.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He swallows wealth but must vomit it up;

God will force it from his stomach.

NLTNew Living Translation

They will vomit the wealth they swallowed.

God won’t let them keep it down.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

He swallows riches, but he vomits them up;

God drives them out from his stomach.

KJV 1900King James Version

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again:

God shall cast them out of his belly.