Job 20:5-16
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that the mirth of the wicked is brief,
the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
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Though his pride reaches to the heavens
and his head touches the clouds,
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he will perish forever, like his own dung;
those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
8
Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found,
banished like a vision of the night.
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The eye that saw him will not see him again;
his place will look on him no more.
10
His children must make amends to the poor;
his own hands must give back his wealth.
11
The youthful vigor that fills his bones
will lie with him in the dust.
12
“Though evil is sweet in his mouth
and he hides it under his tongue,
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though he cannot bear to let it go
and keeps it in his mouth,
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yet his food will turn sour in his stomach;
it will become the venom of serpents within him.
15
He will spit out the riches he swallowed;
God will make his stomach vomit them up.
16
He will suck the poison of serpents;
the fangs of an adder will kill him.