Job 20:15
 Job 20:15 
New International Version (©2011)
He will spit out the riches he swallowed; God will make his stomach vomit them up.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They will vomit the wealth they swallowed. God won't let them keep it down.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"He swallows riches, But will vomit them up; God will expel them from his belly.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He swallows wealth but must vomit it up; God will force it from his stomach.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Though he swallows wealth, he will vomit it; God will dislodge it from his stomach.

NET Bible (©2006)
The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He vomits up the riches that he swallowed. God forces them out of his stomach.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

American King James Version
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

American Standard Version
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The riches which he hath swallowed; he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.

Darby Bible Translation
He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: łGod shall cast them out of his belly.

English Revised Version
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

Webster's Bible Translation
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

World English Bible
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

Young's Literal Translation
Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

20:10-22 The miserable condition of the wicked man in this world is fully set forth. The lusts of the flesh are here called the sins of his youth. His hiding it and keeping it under his tongue, denotes concealment of his beloved lust, and delight therein. But He who knows what is in the heart, knows what is under the tongue, and will discover it. The love of the world, and of the wealth of it, also is wickedness, and man sets his heart upon these. Also violence and injustice, these sins bring God's judgments upon nations and families. Observe the punishment of the wicked man for these things. Sin is turned into gall, than which nothing is more bitter; it will prove to him poison; so will all unlawful gains be. In his fulness he shall be in straits, through the anxieties of his own mind. To be led by the sanctifying grace of God to restore what was unjustly gotten, as Zaccheus was, is a great mercy. But to be forced to restore by the horrors of a despairing conscience, as Judas was, has no benefit and comfort attending it.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 15. - He hath swallowed down riches and he shall vomit them up again. The wicked man shall be made to disgorge his ill-gotten gains. Either fear, or remorse, or a judicial sentence will force him to make restitution (see ver. 10). God shall cast them out of his belly. Whatever is the immediate motive of the restitution: it will really be God's doing. He will cause the fear, or the remorse, or bring about the judicial sentence.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He hath swallowed down riches,.... Not his own, but another's, which he has spoiled him of and devoured, with as much eagerness, pleasure, and delight, as a hungry man swallows down his food; having an excessive and immoderate love of riches, and an insatiable desire after them, which make him stop at nothing, though ever so illicit, to obtain them; and when he has got them into his possession, thinks them as safe as the food in his belly, and never once dreams of refunding them, which yet he must do, as follows:

and he shall vomit them up again; that is, make restoration of them, not freely, but forcedly, with great reluctance, much pain of mind, and gripes of conscience:

God shall cast them out of his belly; he shall oblige him to cast them up again, by working upon his heart, making his mind uneasy, loading his conscience with guilt, so that he shall have no rest nor peace until he has done it; though they are as meat in his belly within him, they shall not remain with him; though they are in his house, in his coffers, or in his barns, they shall be fetched out from thence.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

15. He is forced to disgorge his ill-gotten wealth.


Job 20:15 Parallel Commentaries

Job 20:15 NIV
Job 20:15 NLT
Job 20:15 ESV
Job 20:15 NASB
Job 20:15 KJV

Bible Hub: Online Parallel Bible


Zophar: Triumph of the Wicked Short-lived
14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. 15He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. 16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. …

Job 20:10 His children must make amends to the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.
Job 20:14 yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.
Job 20:18 What he toiled for he must give back uneaten; he will not enjoy the profit from his trading.
Job 20:20 "Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.
Job 20:28 A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath.
Psalm 109:11 May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
Proverbs 21:20 The wise store up choice food and olive oil, but fools gulp theirs down.
Jeremiah 51:34 "Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured us, he has thrown us into confusion, he has made us an empty jar. Like a serpent he has swallowed us and filled his stomach with our delicacies, and then has spewed us out.
Habakkuk 2:6 "Will not all of them taunt him with ridicule and scorn, saying, "'Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion! How long must this go on?'