Job 20:20-29

The Voice

²⁰     Because he’s never known inner peace,
        he has seized everything he’s ever craved.
²¹     Because he consumed all he could see, nothing is left;
        his prosperity cannot last.
²²     When he is fat with satisfaction,
        the belt of distress will tighten around him
        and the hands of the downtrodden will rise up against him.
²³     When he has filled up his belly,
        God will visit him with His ferocious anger;
        it will rain down on him while he is eating.
²⁴     Let him attempt to escape the iron weapon.
        Instead, a bow of bronze will send death to tear into him.
²⁵     When the arrow is drawn it comes out of his back,
        and the shining arrowhead comes out of his organ,
        bringing terror upon him.
²⁶     A great darkness waits for and stalks everything he values.
        A mysterious fire—unstoked yet burning hot—will consume him
        and devour everything and everyone left behind in his tent.
²⁷     The skies will tell on him, exposing his wrongdoing;
        the earth will rebel against him.
²⁸     All that he labored to build will be carried off,
        washed away in the day of God’s furious anger.
²⁹     This is how it will be for the wicked of humanity before God;
        this is the inheritance God bequeaths them.