Job 27:13-23

Lexham English Bible

¹³ “This is the portion of the wicked human being with God,
and they receive from Shaddai the inheritance of the ruthless.
¹⁴ If their children multiply, it is for the sword,
and his offspring do not have enough to eat.^[a]
15 Their^[b] survivors are buried through^[c] the plague,
and their^[d] widows do not weep.
¹⁶ If he heaps up silver like the dust
and fashions clothing like the clay,
¹⁷ he makes it ready, and the righteous will wear it,
and the innocent will divide the silver.
¹⁸ “He builds his house like the moth,
and like a booth that a watchman has made.
¹⁹ He goes to bed with wealth, but^[e] he will do so no more;^[f]
he opens his eyes, and it is gone.^[g]
20 Terrors overtake him like the water;
a storm wind carries him off in the night.
²¹ The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone,
and it sweeps him away from his place.
²² And it hurls at him, and it has no compassion;
he will quickly flee from its power.
²³ It claps its hands over him,
and it hisses at him from its place.