Job 20:1-29 CSB

[1] Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: [2] This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer, because I am upset! [3] I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding makes me reply. [4] Don't you know that ever since antiquity, from the time a human was placed on earth, [5] the joy of the wicked has been brief and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment? [6] Though his arrogance reaches heaven, and his head touches the clouds, [7] he will vanish forever like his own dung. Those who know him will ask, "Where is he?" [8] He will fly away like a dream and never be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night. [9] The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his household will no longer see him. [10] His children will beg from the poor, for his own hands must give back his wealth. [11] His frame may be full of youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in dust. [12] Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue, [13] though he cherishes it and will not let it go but keeps it in his mouth, [14] yet the food in his stomach turns into cobras' venom inside him. [15] He swallows wealth but must vomit it up; God will force it from his stomach. [16] He will suck the poison of cobras; a viper's fangs will kill him. [17] He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and curds. [18] He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he doesn't enjoy the profits from his trading. [19] For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build. [20] Because his appetite is never satisfied, he does not let anything he desires escape. [21] Nothing is left for him to consume; therefore, his prosperity will not last. [22] At the height of his success distress will come to him; the full weight of misery will crush him. [23] When he fills his stomach, God will send his burning anger against him, raining it down on him while he is eating. [24] If he flees from an iron weapon, an arrow from a bronze bow will pierce him. [25] He pulls it out of his back, the flashing tip out of his liver. Terrors come over him. [26] Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned by human hands will consume him; it will feed on what is left in his tent. [27] The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him. [28] The possessions in his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God's anger. [29] This is the wicked person's lot from God, the inheritance God ordained for him.