Catholic Public Domain Version

Job 20:10-18 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

10. His sons will be worn away by poverty, and his own hands will deliver his grief to him.

11. His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.

12. For, when evil will be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.

13. He will permit it, and not abandon it, and he will conceal it in his throat.

14. His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him.

15. The riches that he devours, he will vomit up, and from his stomach God will draw them out.

16. He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.

17. (May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.)

18. He will be repaid for all he has done, yet he will not be consumed; according to the multitude of his schemes, so also will he suffer.