¹⁵Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out. ¹⁶Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper. ¹⁷He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter. ¹⁸He is giving back what he laboured for, And doth not consume it; As a bulwark is his exchange, and he exults not. ¹⁹For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it. ²⁰For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself. ²¹There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay. ²²In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

²³It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating. ²⁴He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass. ²⁵One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him are terrors. ²⁶All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent. ²⁷Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him. ²⁸Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger. ²⁹This is the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.

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