18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
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His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-22)The instances here given of the miserable condition of the wicked man in this world are expressed with great fulness and fluency of language, and the same thing returned to again and repeated in other words. Let us therefore reduce the particulars to their proper heads, and observe, I. What his wickedness is for which he is punished. 1. The lusts of the flesh, here called the sins of his youth (Jo…
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