Job 20:4-18

4“Don’t you realize that from the beginning of time, ever since people were first placed on the earth,

5the triumph of the wicked has been short lived and the joy of the godless has been only temporary?

6Though the pride of the godless reaches to the heavens and their heads touch the clouds,

7yet they will vanish forever, thrown away like their own dung. Those who knew them will ask, ‘Where are they?’

8They will fade like a dream and not be found. They will vanish like a vision in the night.

9Those who once saw them will see them no more. Their families will never see them again.

10Their children will beg from the poor, for they must give back their stolen riches.

11Though they are young, their bones will lie in the dust.

12“They enjoyed the sweet taste of wickedness, letting it melt under their tongue.

13They savored it, holding it long in their mouths.

14But suddenly the food in their bellies turns sour, a poisonous venom in their stomach.

15They will vomit the wealth they swallowed. God won’t let them keep it down.

16They will suck the poison of cobras. The viper will kill them.

17They will never again enjoy streams of olive oil or rivers of milk and honey.

18They will give back everything they worked for. Their wealth will bring them no joy.