Job 20:12-19

The Voice

¹²     Though his wrongdoing is sweet in his mouth,
        though he hides it under his tongue,
¹³     Though he holds it close and will not let it go
        (but must keep it in his mouth),
¹⁴     His food will be transformed within him
        into the bitter venom of the asp.
¹⁵     The wealth he has swallowed will be poison.
        He will vomit it up—God will cast it out.
¹⁶     It is as they say, “He sucks the venom of asps
        and is slain by the tongue of the viper.”
¹⁷     Never again will he gaze at the brook’s edge
        or see streams that flow with milk and honey—
¹⁸     The food for which he worked he vomits up or cannot swallow,
        and the gains of his trading, he can never enjoy.
¹⁹     After all, he’s an oppressor;
        he’s crushed and forsaken the poor;
        he made his home in a house he stole from another,
        a house he did not build himself.