New International Reader's Version

Job 20:10-17 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

10. Their children must pay back what they took from poor people. Their own hands must give back the wealth they stole.

11. They might feel young and very strong. But they will soon lie down in the dust of their graves.

12. "Anything that is evil tastes sweet to them. They keep it under their tongues for a while.

13. They can't stand to let it go. So they hold it in their mouths.

14. But their food will turn sour in their stomachs. It will become like the poison of a serpent inside them.

15. They will spit out the rich food they swallowed. God will make their stomachs throw it up.

16. They will suck the poison of a serpent. The fangs of an adder will kill them.

17. They won't enjoy streams that flow with honey. They won't enjoy rivers that flow with cream.