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Job 20

¹Job, you upset me. Now I'm impatient to answer.

³What you have said is an insult, but I know how to reply to you.

⁴Surely you know that from ancient times, when we humans were first placed on earth,

⁵no wicked people have been happy for long.

⁶They may grow great, towering to the sky, so great that their heads reach the clouds,

⁷but they will be blown away like dust. Those who used to know them will wonder where they have gone.

⁸They will vanish like a dream, like a vision at night, and never be seen again.

⁹The wicked will disappear from the place where they used to live;

¹⁰and their children will make good what they stole from the poor.

¹¹Their bodies used to be young and vigorous, but soon they will turn to dust.

¹²Evil tastes so good to them that they keep some in their mouths to enjoy its flavor.

¹⁴But in their stomachs the food turns bitter, as bitter as any poison could be.

¹⁵The wicked vomit up the wealth they stole; God takes it back, even out of their stomachs.

¹⁶What the evil people swallow is like poison; it kills them like the bite of a deadly snake.

¹⁷They will not live to see rivers of olive oil or streams that flow with milk and honey.

¹⁸They will have to give up all they have worked for; they will have no chance to enjoy their wealth,

¹⁹because they oppressed and neglected the poor and seized houses someone else had built.

²⁰Their greed is never satisfied.

²¹When they eat, there is nothing left over, but now their prosperity comes to an end.

²²At the height of their success all the weight of misery will crush them.

²³Let them eat all they want! God will punish them in fury and anger.

²⁴When they try to escape from an iron sword, a bronze bow will shoot them down.

²⁵Arrows stick through their bodies; the shiny points drip with their blood, and terror grips their hearts.

²⁶Everything they have saved is destroyed; a fire not lit by human hands burns them and all their family.

²⁷Heaven reveals their sin, and the earth gives testimony against them.

²⁸All their wealth will be destroyed in the flood of God's anger.

²⁹This is the fate of wicked people, the fate that God assigns to them.