Job 15:20-35

20All his days the wicked suffers torment, and numbered are the years stored up for the tyrant.

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

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

23He wanders about for bread— ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

24Distress and anguish terrify him; they overpower him like a king poised to attack,

25for he raises his hand against God and flaunts himself against Shaddai,

26defiantly rushing at Him with a thick, strong shield.

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

28he lived in ruined cities, in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to crumble into heaps.

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

30He will not escape from the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and he will depart by the breath of His mouth.

31“Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.

32Before his day it will be paid in full and his branch will not be green.

33He will shake off his unripe grapes like a vine, and cast off his blossoms like an olive tree.

34For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

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