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Job Chapter 20 verse 21 Holy Bible

ASV Job 20:21

There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
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BBE Job 20:21

He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.
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DARBY Job 20:21

Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
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KJV Job 20:21

There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
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WBT Job 20:21

There shall none of his food be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
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WEB Job 20:21

There was nothing left that he didn't devour, Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
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YLT Job 20:21

There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - There shall none of his meat be left; rather, there was nothing left that he detoured not, or nothing remained over from his eating (Schultens). Scarcely intended literally, as Canon Cook supposes. Rather said in reference to the wicked man's persistent oppression and robbery of the poor, the needy, and the powerless (comp. vers. 19, 20; and note our Lord's words, "Ye devour widows' houses," Matthew 23:14). Therefore shall no man look for his goods. This is an impossible rendering. Translate, with Rosenmuller, Canon Cook, Stanley Leathes, and our Revisers, therefore his prosperity shall not endure. In other words, a Nemesis shall overtake him. For his oppression and cruelty he shall be visited by the Divine auger; a sudden end shall be made of his prosperity, and he shall fall into penury and misfortune. Covert allusion is, no doubt, intended to Job's sudden loss of his extraordinary prosperity by the series of calamities so graphically portrayed in Job 1:13-19.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) There shall none of his meat be left.--Rather, There was nothing left that he devoured not, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.