Job 20:15-29

15He vomits up the riches that he swallowed. God forces them out of his stomach.

16The godless person sucks the poison of snakes. A viper’s fang kills him.

17He won’t be able to drink from the streams or from the rivers of honey and buttermilk.

18He will give back what he earned without enjoying it. He will get no joy from the profits of his business

19because he crushed and abandoned the poor. He has taken by force a house that he didn’t build.

20He will never know peace in his heart. He will never allow anything he desires to escape ⌞his grasp⌟.

21“Nothing is left for him to eat. His prosperity won’t last.

22⌞Even⌟ with all his wealth the full force of misery comes down on him.

23Let that misery fill his belly. ⌞God⌟ throws his burning anger at the godless person and makes his wrath come down on him like rain.

24If that person flees from an iron weapon, a bronze bow will pierce him.

25He pulls it out, and it comes out of his back. The glittering point comes out of his gallbladder. “Terrors come quickly to the godless person:

26Total darkness waits in hiding for his treasure. A fire that no one fans will burn him. Whatever is left in his tent will be devoured.

27Heaven exposes his sin. Earth rises up against him.

28A flood will sweep away his house, a flash flood on the day of his anger.

29This is the reward God gives to the wicked person, the inheritance God has appointed for him.”