Job 15:17–35

¹⁷I will shew thee, hear me;

And that which I have seen I will declare;

¹⁸Which wise men have ^ztold

^aFrom their fathers, and ^zhave not hid it:

¹⁹Unto whom alone the earth was given,

And ^bno stranger passed among them.

²⁰The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days,

And the number of years ^cis hidden to the ^doppressor.

^21†A dreadful sound is in his ears:

^eIn prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

²²He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,

And he is waited for of the sword.

²³He ^fwandereth abroad for bread, ^gsaying, Where is it?

He knoweth that the day of darkness ^his ready at his hand.

²⁴Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid;

They shall ⁱprevail against him, ^jas a king ready to the battle.

²⁵For he stretcheth out his hand against God,

And strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

²⁶He ^krunneth upon him, even ^lon his neck,

Upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

²⁷Because he ^mcovereth his face with his fatness,

And maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

²⁸And he dwelleth in desolate cities,

And in houses which no man inhabiteth,

Which are ready to become heaps.

²⁹He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,

Neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

³⁰He shall not depart out of darkness;

The flame shall dry up his ⁿbranches,

And ^oby the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

³¹Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity:

For vanity shall be his recompence.

³²It shall be ^||accomplished ^pbefore his time,

And his ^qbranch shall not be green.

³³He shall ^rshake off his ^sunripe grape as the vine,

And shall cast off his ^sflower as the olive.

³⁴For ^tthe congregation of hypocrites shall be ^udesolate,

And fire shall consume the ^wtabernacles of bribery.

^35xThey conceive ^ymischief, and bring forth ^y||vanity,

And their ^zbelly prepareth deceit.