Job 27:13-23

New International Reader's Version

¹³ “Here’s what God does to sinful people.
    Here’s what those who are mean receive from the Mighty One.
¹⁴ All their children will be killed by swords.
    They’ll never have enough to eat.
¹⁵ A plague will kill those who are left alive.
    The widows of sinful men
    won’t even weep over their own children.
¹⁶ Sinners might store up silver like dust
    and clothes like piles of clay.
¹⁷ But people who do what is right will wear those clothes.
    People who haven’t done anything wrong
    will divide up that silver.
¹⁸ The house an evil person builds is like a moth’s cocoon.
    It’s like a hut that’s made by someone on guard duty.
¹⁹ Sinful people lie down wealthy, but their wealth is taken away.
    When they open their eyes, everything is gone.
²⁰ Terrors sweep over them like a flood.
    A storm takes them away during the night.
²¹ The east wind carries them off, and they are gone.
    It sweeps them out of their houses.
²² It blows against them without mercy.
    They try to escape from its power.
²³ It claps its hands and makes fun of them.
    It hisses them out of their houses.”