Job 15:20-35
-
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
-
21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
-
22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
-
23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
-
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
-
25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
-
26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
-
27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
-
28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
-
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
-
30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
-
31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
-
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
-
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
-
34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
-
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.