Job 15:20-35

20They knew this: A wicked person will have trouble all his life. Anyone who is cruel will suffer every year that he lives.

21He will hear things that frighten him. He may think that he is safe, but robbers will attack him.

22He is afraid to go out in the dark. He thinks that someone may kill him.

23The wicked person walks about to look for food. He says, “Where is it?” He knows that he cannot escape from trouble.

24He is afraid and confused. Trouble is ready to attack him, like a king with his army.

25That happens to the person who turns against God. He thinks that he is greater than Almighty God.

26He is proud enough to attack God. He holds a big shield as he runs to attack God!

27He eats too much and his whole body is very fat.

28He lives in a town that is empty. No one else lives in the houses there. The buildings will soon fall down and they will become heaps of stones.

29He will not be rich. He will lose his valuable things. Everything that he has will disappear.

30When it becomes dark, he will not be able to escape. He will be like a tree that fire has burned. God's breath will blow him away!

31He may trust in useless things to save him. But he is deceiving himself. Any help that he receives will also be useless.

32Before he is old, his life will end. Like a tree that makes no leaves, he will have no success in life.

33He will be like a vine that loses its grapes. They fall off before they are ready to eat. He will be like an olive tree that loses its flowers, so that no olives grow on it.

34People who turn away from God are like that. They have no family to live after them. If they use the money from bribes to build their homes, fire will destroy those homes.

35They make plans to cause trouble, so that evil things happen. Lies are what come out from inside them.’