16. He sucks the poison of serpents;the fangs of a viper kill him.
17. He will not look on the streams,the rivers, which are the torrentsof honey and butter.
18. He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it;he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.
19. For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them;he has seized a house which he did not build.
20. For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite;he does not let anything he desires escape.
21. “Nothing is left for him to devour;that is why his prosperity does not last.
22. In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him.the full force of misery will come upon him.
23. “While he is filling his belly,God sends his burning anger against him,and rains down his blows upon him.
24. If he flees from an iron weapon,then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.
25. When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back,the gleaming point out of his liver,terrors come over him.
26. Total darkness waits to receive his treasures;a fire which has not been kindled will consume himand devour what is left in his tent.
27. The heavens reveal his iniquity;the earth rises up against him.
28. A flood will carry off his house,rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.
29. Such is the lot God allots the wicked,and the heritage of his appointment from God.”