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Job 5:5

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The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

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Lamentations 2:16rank 7

All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”

Hosea 8:7rank 5

For they sow the wind, and they shall 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.

Jeremiah 51:44rank 4

I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.

Jeremiah 51:34rank 3

“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.

Job 1:15rank 2

the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Job 2:3rank 2

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

Isaiah 62:8rank 2

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.

Deuteronomy 28:33rank 2

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 6:11rank 2

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.

Job 20:15rank 2

He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.

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