Job 15:20-35 - The Tortured Life Of The Wicked Person
20 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. 21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22 He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword. 23 He wanders abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. 24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him as a king ready to the battle. 25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty. 26 He runs upon him with a [stiff] neck, with the thick studs of his bucklers, 27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his loins. 28 And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. 29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth. 30 He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of [God's] mouth he shall go away. 31 Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself. For vanity shall be his recompense. 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 tree. 34 For the company of the hypocrites shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery. 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their heart prepares deceit.