Job 20:4-18

4Do you not know that it has been from old, since mankind was put on earth,

5that the triumph of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?

6Though his pride reaches to the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

7he perishes forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

8Like a dream, he flies away and they cannot find him; like a vision of the night, he is chased away.

9The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more.

10His children must recompense the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.

11His bones were full of his youthful vigor but it will lie down with him in the dust.

12Though evil is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

13though he cannot bear to let it go and holds it in his mouth,

14his food turns sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.

15He swallows riches and vomits them up; God empties it out of his stomach.

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

17He will not look at streams, rivers flowing with honey and butter.

18He gives back what he toiled for without swallowing it; he will not enjoy the riches of his trade.