20:5 that the elation of the wicked is brief,
the joy of the godless
20:6 Even though his stature
and his head touches the clouds,
20:7 he will perish forever, like his own excrement;
those who used to see him will say, ‘Where is he?’
20:8 Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found,
and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.
20:9 People
and the place where he was
will recognize him no longer.
20:10 His sons must recompense
his own hands
20:11 His bones
but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.
20:12 “If
and he hides it under his tongue,
20:13 if he retains it for himself
and does not let it go,
and holds it fast in his mouth,
20:14 his food is turned sour
it becomes the venom of serpents
20:15 The wealth that he consumed
God will make him throw it out
20:16 He sucks the poison
the fangs
20:17 He will not look on the streams,
the rivers, which are the torrents
of honey and butter.
20:18 He gives back the ill-gotten gain
without assimilating it;
he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.
20:19 For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them;
he has seized a house which he did not build.
20:20 For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite;
he does not let anything he desires
20:21 “Nothing is left for him to devour;
that is why his prosperity does not last.
20:22 In the fullness of his sufficiency,
distress
the full force of misery will come upon him.
20:23 “While he is
God
and rains down his blows upon him.
20:24 If he flees from an iron weapon,
then an arrow
20:25 When he pulls it out
the gleaming point
terrors come over him.
20:26 Total darkness waits to receive his treasures;
a fire which has not been kindled
will consume him
and devour what is left in his tent.
20:27 The heavens reveal his iniquity;
the earth rises up against him.
20:28 A flood will carry off his house,
rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.
20:29 Such is the lot God allots the wicked,
and the heritage of his appointment
73:18 Surely
you bring them down
73:19 How desolate they become in a mere moment!
Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!