Job 20:21

Contemporary English Version

But when nothing remains for them to grab, they will be nothing.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Nothing is left for him to consume;therefore, his prosperity will not last.

Hebrew Names Version
There was nothing left that he didn't devour, Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

King James Version
There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

English Standard Version
There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.

New Century Version
But nothing will be left for them to eat; their riches will not continue.

New English Translation
"Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

Amplified Bible
"There is nothing left of what he devoured; Therefore his prosperity does not endure.

New American Standard Bible
"Nothing remains for him to devour, Therefore his prosperity does not endure.

World English Bible
There was nothing left that he didn't devour, Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Geneva Bible (1587)
There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shal hope for his goods.

Legacy Standard Bible
Nothing remains for him to devour;Therefore his prosperity does not endure.

Berean Standard Bible
Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.

Complete Jewish Bible
nothing is left that he did not devour; therefore his well-being will not last.

Darby Translation
Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Easy-to-Read Version
After filling himself, there is nothing left. His success will not continue.

George Lamsa Translation
There shall none of his posterity be spared; therefore his good will not be remembered.

Good News Translation
When they eat, there is nothing left over, but now their prosperity comes to an end.

Lexham English Bible
There is nothing left after he has eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.

Literal Translation
There is no residue for his eating; because of this, his good will not last.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He deuoured so gredely, yt he left nothinge behynde, therfore his goodes shal not prospere.

American Standard Version
There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Bible in Basic English
He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
There was nothing left that he devoured not--therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

King James Version (1611)
There shall none of his meat be left, therefore shall no man looke for his goods.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
There shall none of his meate be left, therefore shall no man loke for his goodes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
There is nothing remaining of his provisions; therefore his goods shall not flourish.

English Revised Version
There was nothing left that he devoured not; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`No thing lefte of his mete; and therfor no thing schal dwelle of his goodis.

Update Bible Version
There was nothing left that he didn't devour; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Webster's Bible Translation
There shall none of his food be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

New King James Version
Nothing is left for him to eat; Therefore his well-being will not last.

New Living Translation
Nothing is left after they finish gorging themselves. Therefore, their prosperity will not endure.

New Life Bible
There was nothing more for him to get, so his having everything will not last.

New Revised Standard
There was nothing left after they had eaten; therefore their prosperity will not endure.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Nothing escaped his devouring greed, - For this cause, shall his prosperity not continue:

Douay-Rheims Bible
There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:

Revised Standard Version
There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.

Young's Literal Translation
There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Nothing remains for him to devour, Therefore his prosperity does not endure.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Their children will have to repay what the parents took from the poor. ¹¹ Indeed, the wicked will die and go to their graves in the prime of life. ¹² Sinners love the taste of sin; they relish every bite ¹³ and swallow it slowly. ¹⁴ But their food will turn sour and poison their stomachs. ¹⁵ Then God will make them lose the wealth they gobbled down. ¹⁶ They will die from the fangs of poisonous snakes ¹⁷ and never enjoy rivers flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁸ Their hard work will result in nothing gained, ¹⁹ because they cheated the poor and took their homes.

Bible Verse Review
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none of his meat be left: or, be none left for his meat, Job 18:19, Jeremiah 17:11, Luke 16:24, Luke 16:25

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There shall none of his meat be left,.... Not in his belly, all shall be cast up; none of his substance left for himself or others; none of his riches for his children or heirs, all being consumed: or this may respect either the profuseness or niggardliness of his living, that he should live in great luxury himself, but take no care of the poor; or else keep so mean a table, that there would be nothing left for the poor, not so much as a few crumbs to fall from it; but the first sense seems best; though some render the words, "there shall be none left for his meat" b, or his substance; he shall leave no children, have no heirs, all his family shall be cut off, see

Job 18:19;

therefore shall no man look for his goods; for there shall be none to look for them; or rather there shall be none to look for, all being gone: a man in good circumstances of life, his heirs expect to enjoy much at his death, but when he is stripped of all, as Job was, his relations and friends are in no expectation of having anything at his death; and therefore do not think it worth their while to look out, or make an inquiry whether there is anything for them or not, see

Job 20:28.

b אין שריד לאכלו "non erit superstes haeres qui ejus bonis fruetur"; so some in Mercer. Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

“There shall none of his meat be left Margin, “or, be none left for his meat.” Noyes renders it, “Because nothing escaped his greatness.” Prof. Lee, “no surviver shall remain for his provision.” But the meaning, probably, is, nothing shall remain of his food, or it shall all be wasted, or dissipated.

Therefore, shall no man look for his goods - Or rather, his goods or his property shall not endure. But a great variety of interpretations has been given to the passage. The Hebrew word rendered “shall look,” יחיל yāchı̂yl, is from חוּל chûl, which means, “to turn round, to twist, to whirl;” and thence, arises the notion of being firm, stable, or strong - as a rope that is twisted is strong. That is the idea here; and the sense is, that his property should not be secure or firm; or that he should not prosper. Jerome renders it, “Nothing shall remain of his goods.” The Septuagint, “Therefore his good things - αὐτοῦ τὰ ἀγκθά autou ta agatha - shall not flourish” - ἀνθήσει anthēsei.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 20:21. There shall none of his meat be left — Coverdale translates thus: He devoured so gredily, that he left nothinge behynde, therefore his goodes shal not prospere. He shall be stripped of every thing.