Job 20
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Job 20:15-29

15The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

16He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.

17He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.

18He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.

19For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

20For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

21“Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. the full force of misery will come upon him.

23“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

24If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

25When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.

26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

28A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

29Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God.”

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