Job 27:13–23

¹³“Here’s what God does to sinful people.

Here’s what those who are mean receive from the Mighty One.

¹⁴All of their children will be killed with swords.

They’ll never have enough to eat.

¹⁵A plague will kill those who are left alive.

The widows of sinful men

won’t even sob over their own children.

¹⁶Sinners might store up silver like dust

and clothes like piles of clay.

¹⁷But people who do what is right will wear those clothes.

People who haven’t done anything wrong

will divide up that silver.

¹⁸The house an evil person builds is like a moth’s cocoon.

It’s like a hut that’s made by someone on guard duty.

¹⁹Sinful people lie down wealthy, but their wealth is taken away.

When they open their eyes, everything is gone.

²⁰Terrors sweep over them like a flood.

A storm takes them away during the night.

²¹The east wind carries them off, and they are gone.

It sweeps them out of their houses.

²²It blows against them without mercy.

They try to escape from its power.

²³It claps its hands and makes fun of them.

It hisses them out of their houses.