Job 20:20-29

Evangelical Heritage Version

²⁰ His stomach is never filled.
He cannot satisfy his desires,
²¹ because now there is nothing left for him to eat,
so his prosperity will not endure.
²² Even when he has plenty,
distress catches up with him,
and misery grabs hold of him.
²³ While he is filling his belly,
God will send burning anger upon him,
and it will rain down on his body.^[a]
24 He flees from iron weapons,
but he is pierced by a bronze arrow.
²⁵ He pulls the arrow out of his back,
and the shiny point comes out of his liver.
Terrors come over him.
²⁶ Complete darkness is lying in wait for his hidden treasures.
A fire that needs no fanning will consume him.
It will destroy anything that survives in his tent.
²⁷ The heavens will uncover his guilt,
and the earth will rise up against him.
²⁸ A flood will carry away his house,
sweeping away his possessions on the day of God’s wrath.
²⁹ This is God’s sentence on the evil man.
This is his heritage decreed by God.