Job 27:13-23

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¹³ “This is the portion of the wicked with God
    and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:^[a](A)
14 If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword,
    and their offspring have not enough to eat.^(B)
15 Those who survive them the pestilence buries,
    and their widows make no lamentation.^(C)
16 Though they heap up silver like dust
    and pile up clothing like clay,^(D)
17 they may pile it up, but the just will wear it,
    and the innocent will divide the silver.^(E)
18 They build their houses like nests,
    like booths made by sentinels of the vineyard.
¹⁹ They go to bed with wealth but will do so no more;
    they open their eyes, and it is gone.^(F)
20 Terrors overtake them like a flood;
    in the night a whirlwind carries them off.^(G)
21 The east wind lifts them up, and they are gone;
    it sweeps them out of their place.^(H)
22 It^[b] hurls at them without pity;
    they flee from its^[c] power in headlong flight.^(I)
23 It^[d] claps its^[e] hands at them
    and hisses at them from its^[f] place.^(J)