Job 15:20-35

20All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.

21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.

22He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;

23he wanders about – food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

24Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,

25for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

26defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!

27Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,

28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

31Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.

32Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.

33Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.

34For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.

35They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception.”