English Standard Version

Job 20:6-16 English Standard Version (ESV)

6. Though his height mount up to the heavens,and his head reach to the clouds,

7. he will perish forever like his own dung;those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

8. He will fly away like a dream and not be found;he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

9. The eye that saw him will see him no more,nor will his place any more behold him.

10. His children will seek the favor of the poor,and his hands will give back his wealth.

11. His bones are full of his youthful vigor,but it will lie down with him in the dust.

12. “Though evil is sweet in his mouth,though he hides it under his tongue,

13. though he is loath to let it goand holds it in his mouth,

14. yet his food is turned in his stomach;it is the venom of cobras within him.

15. He swallows down riches and vomits them up again;God casts them out of his belly.

16. He will suck the poison of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.