Job 20:15–29

¹⁵The wicked vomit up the wealth they stole;

God takes it back, even out of their stomachs.

¹⁶What evil people swallow is like poison;

it kills them like the bite of a deadly snake.

¹⁷They will not live to see rivers of olive oil^r

or streams that flow with milk and honey.

¹⁸They will have to give up all they have worked for;

they will have no chance to enjoy their wealth,

¹⁹because they oppressed and neglected the poor

and seized houses someone else had built.

²⁰Their greed is never satisfied.

²¹When they eat, there is nothing left over,

but now their prosperity comes to an end.

²²At the height of their success

all the weight of misery will crush them.

²³Let them eat all they want!

God will punish them in fury and anger.

²⁴When they try to escape from an iron sword,

a bronze bow will shoot them down.

²⁵Arrows stick through their bodies;

the shiny points drip with their blood,

and terror grips their hearts.

²⁶Everything they have saved is destroyed;

a fire not lit by human hands

burns them and all their families.

²⁷Heaven reveals their sin,

and the earth gives testimony against them.

²⁸All their wealth will be destroyed

in the flood of God’s anger.

²⁹This is the fate of the wicked,

the fate that God assigns to them.