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Job 21:20
Job 21:20 is verse 20 of Job chapter 21, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
King James Version
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
World English Bible
Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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Job 21:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
19 It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
20 Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
21 For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
22 Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 27:19He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
Luke 16:23In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
Psalms 75:8For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs.
Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs— the cup that makes men stagger.
Jeremiah 25:15This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
Jeremiah 25:16And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”
Jeremiah 51:7Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
Revelation 14:10he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
Revelation 19:15And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.