Job 20:15–29

¹⁵They swallow down riches and vomit them up again;

God casts them out of their bellies.

¹⁶They will suck the poison of asps;

the tongue of a viper will kill them.^*

¹⁷They will not look on the rivers,

the streams flowing with honey and curds.^*

¹⁸They will give back the fruit of their toil

and will not swallow it down;

from the profit of their trading

they will get no enjoyment.^*

¹⁹For they have crushed and abandoned the poor;

they have seized a house that they did not build.^*

²⁰“For they knew no quiet in their bellies;

in their greed they let nothing escape.^*

²¹There was nothing left after they had eaten;

therefore their prosperity will not endure.^*

²²In full sufficiency they will be in distress;

all the force of misery will come upon them.

²³To fill their belly to the full,

God^c will send his fierce anger into them

and rain it upon them as their food.^*

²⁴They will flee from an iron weapon;

a bronze arrow will strike them through.^*

²⁵It is drawn forth and comes out of their body,

and the glittering point comes out of their gall;

terrors come upon them.^*

²⁶Utter darkness is laid up for their treasures;

a fire fanned by no one will devour them;

what is left in their tent will be consumed.^*

²⁷The heavens will reveal their iniquity,

and the earth will rise up against them.^*

²⁸The possessions of their house will be carried away,

dragged off in the day of God’s^d wrath.^*

²⁹This is the portion of the wicked from God,

the heritage decreed for them by God.”^*