Job 15:17–35

¹⁷I will shew thee, hear me: and I will tell thee what I have seen.

¹⁸Wise men confess and hide not their fathers.

¹⁹To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger hath passed among them.

²⁰The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.

²¹The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.

²²He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.

²³When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

²⁴Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him, as a king that is prepared for the battle.

²⁵For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath strengthened himself against the Almighty.

²⁶He hath run against him with his neck raised up, and is armed with a fat neck.

²⁷Fatness hath covered his face, and the fat hangeth down on his sides.

²⁸He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps.

²⁹He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he push his root in the earth.

³⁰He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own mouth.

³¹He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may be redeemed with any price.

³²Before his days be full he shall perish: and his hands shall wither away.

³³He shall be blasted as a vine when its grapes are in the first flower, and as an olive tree that casteth its flower.

³⁴For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.

³⁵He hath conceived sorrow, and hath brought forth iniquity, and his womb prepareth deceits.