Job 20:15–29

¹⁵He vomits up the riches that he swallowed. 

God forces them out of his stomach. 

¹⁶The godless person sucks the poison of snakes. 

A viper’s fang kills him. 

¹⁷He won’t be able to drink from the streams 

or from the rivers of honey and buttermilk. 

¹⁸He will give back what he earned without enjoying it. 

He will get no joy from the profits of his business 

¹⁹because he crushed and abandoned the poor. 

He has taken by force a house that he didn’t build. 

²⁰He will never know peace in his heart. 

He will never allow anything he desires to escape ⸤his grasp⸥. 

²¹“Nothing is left for him to eat. 

His prosperity won’t last. 

²²⸤Even⸥ with all his wealth 

the full force of misery comes down on him. 

²³Let that misery fill his belly. 

⸤God⸥ throws his burning anger at the godless person 

and makes his wrath come down on him like rain. 

²⁴If that person flees from an iron weapon, 

a bronze bow will pierce him. 

²⁵He pulls it out, and it comes out of his back. 

The glittering point comes out of his gallbladder. 

“Terrors come quickly to the godless person: 

²⁶Total darkness waits in hiding for his treasure. 

A fire that no one fans will burn him. 

Whatever is left in his tent will be devoured. 

²⁷Heaven exposes his sin. 

Earth rises up against him. 

²⁸A flood will sweep away his house, 

a flash flood on the day of his anger. 

²⁹This is the reward God gives to the wicked person, 

the inheritance God has appointed for him.”