Job 27:13–23

¹³“Here is what God has planned for evil people,

and what the Almighty will give to cruel people:

¹⁴They may have many children, but the sword will kill them.

Their children who are left will never have enough to eat.

¹⁵Then they will die of disease and be buried,

and the widows will not even cry for them.

¹⁶The wicked may heap up silver like piles of dirt

and have so many clothes they are like piles of clay.

¹⁷But good people will wear what evil people have gathered,

and the innocent will divide up their silver.

¹⁸The houses the wicked build are like a spider’s web,

like a hut that a guard builds.

¹⁹The wicked are rich when they go to bed,

but they are rich for the last time;

when they open their eyes, everything is gone.

²⁰Fears come over them like a flood,

and a storm snatches them away in the night.

²¹The east wind will carry them away, and then they are gone,

because it sweeps them out of their place.

²²The wind will hit them without mercy

as they try to run away from its power.

²³It will be as if the wind is clapping its hands;

it will whistle at them as they run from their place.