Job 20:15–29

¹⁵He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: •God shall cast them out of his belly. ¹⁶He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper’s tongue shall kill him. ¹⁷He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter. ¹⁸That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice therein. ¹⁹For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build. ²⁰Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired. ²¹Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure. ²²In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.

²³It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh. ²⁴If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through. ²⁵He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him. ²⁶All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent. ²⁷The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. ²⁸The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger. ²⁹This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by •God.