Job 20:4-18

4Knowest thou [not] this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,

5The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?

6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,

7Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

8He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.

9The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.

10His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.

11His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth [and] he hide it under his tongue,

13[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,

14His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.

15He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: 1God shall cast them out of his belly.

16He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.

17He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.

18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice [therein].