Old Testament · Poetry and wisdom

Job chapter 20

Then answered:That is why with an answer. That is why .I have to sit here and take , and answers back for me.. You have known it as long as there has been anything to know — since the day a human being was set down on the earth —the cheering of the wicked is short, and the joy of lasts one blink.Though his pride climbs all the way to the sky and his head knocks against the clouds,he is gone forever, . The people who used to see him will say, “Where did he go?”He flies off like a dream and nobody finds him. He is chased away like something you thought you saw at night. will not catch him again. His own place will never look at him anymore.His children will have to , and his own hands will give back everything he took.His bones were packed full of , and it lies down with him in the dust.Evil tastes sweet in his mouth. He tucks it away under his tongue.He goes easy on it, he will not let it go, he holds it there against the roof of his mouth —and in his stomach the food turns. Inside him it is .He swallowed , and he brings it back up. God empties it out of his belly.He is down there sucking cobra venom. The viper’s tongue is what kills him.He will never look at the streams, the .He hands back what he worked for and never gets to swallow it. He made his profit, and he gets no joy out of it.Because he and walked off and left them. He seized a house he did not build.Because his gut was , he will not carry off one thing he wanted.Nothing was left when he finished eating. That is why nothing good of his will last.At the full stretch of his plenty he will be squeezed. Every hand that ever wore itself out for him will come down on him.Let him fill his belly, then. God will turn his loose on him and rain it down on him for food.He runs from , and the bronze bow drives clean through him.He pulls it out and it comes clear of his back, the bright point out of his gall. walk all over him.Total dark is stored up for his treasure. will eat him. Whatever is left under his tent, it will go badly for that too.. The earth will stand up against him.The harvest of his house gets hauled away, dragged off on the day God’s anger comes.This is from God — .