Job 5:5
The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns; and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
Cross References
Job 18:8
For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

Job 20:22
In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.

Job 22:10
Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

Psalm 109:11
May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

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harvest.

Deuteronomy 28:33, 51
A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed. . . .

Judges 6:3-6
Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the East would come up and invade them, . . .

Isaiah 62:8
The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: "Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.

the thorns.

Judges 6:11
Then the Angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

2 Chronicles 33:11
So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

the robber.

Job 1:15, 17
the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!" . . .

Job 12:6
The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure--those who carry their god in their hands.

Job 18:9
A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

Hosea 8:7
Indeed, they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

swalloweth.

Job 2:3
Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him--blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause."

Job 20:15
He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.

Jeremiah 51:34, 44
"Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out. . . .

Lamentations 2:5, 16
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the Daughter of Judah. . . .

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