Job 15:20-35

ECB(i) 20 The wicked writhes all his days and the number of years is hidden to the tyrant. 21 A voice of dread is in his ears; in shalom, the ravager comes upon him. 22 He trusts not that he returns from darkness and he is watched by the sword. 23 He wanders abroad for bread! Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is prepared at his hand. 24 Tribulation and distress frighten him; - prevail against him as a sovereign ready to the tumult; 25 he spreads his hand against El and prevails mightily against Shadday. 26 He runs on him - on his neck - on the thick bosses of his shields; 27 because he covers his face with fat and works his flanks plump; 28 and he tabernacles in cut off cities and in houses which no man settles - ready to be heaped. 29 He neither enriches, neither his valuables arise, nor his acquisitions spread on the earth; 30 nor turns aside from darkness. The flame withers his sprouts and by the wind/spirit of his mouth he turns aside. 31 He who strays, trusts not in vanity; for vanity is his exchange; 32 - so be it neither fulfilled in his day nor his palm leaf green; 33 he violates his sour grape as the vine and casts his blossom as the olive. 34 For the witness of profaners sterilizes; and fire consumes the tents of bribery: 35 they conceive toil and birth mischief and their belly prepares deceit.