Job 24:18-25

New Century Version

¹⁸ “They are like foam floating on the water.
    Their part of the land is cursed;
    no one uses the road that goes by their vineyards.
¹⁹ As heat and dryness quickly melt the snow,
    so the grave quickly takes away the sinners.
²⁰ Their mothers forget them,
    and worms will eat their bodies.
They will not be remembered,
    so wickedness is broken in pieces like a stick.
²¹ These evil people abuse women who cannot have children
    and show no kindness to widows.
²² But God drags away the strong by his power.
    Even though they seem strong, they do not know how long they will live.
²³ God may let these evil people feel safe,
    but he is watching their ways.
²⁴ For a little while they are important, and then they die;
    they are laid low and buried like everyone else;
    they are cut off like the heads of grain.
²⁵ If this is not true, who can prove I am wrong?
    Who can show that my words are worth nothing?”