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Job 20
Job 20
English GNT (Good News Translation)
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Job, you upset me. Now I'm impatient to answer.
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What you have said is an insult, but I know how to reply to you.
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Surely you know that from ancient times, when we humans were first placed on earth,
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no wicked people have been happy for long.
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They may grow great, towering to the sky, so great that their heads reach the clouds,
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but they will be blown away like dust. Those who used to know them will wonder where they have gone.
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They will vanish like a dream, like a vision at night, and never be seen again.
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The wicked will disappear from the place where they used to live;
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and their children will make good what they stole from the poor.
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Their bodies used to be young and vigorous, but soon they will turn to dust.
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Evil tastes so good to them that they keep some in their mouths to enjoy its flavor.
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But in their stomachs the food turns bitter, as bitter as any poison could be.
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The wicked vomit up the wealth they stole; God takes it back, even out of their stomachs.
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What the evil people swallow is like poison; it kills them like the bite of a deadly snake.
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They will not live to see rivers of olive oil or streams that flow with milk and honey.
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They will have to give up all they have worked for; they will have no chance to enjoy their wealth,
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because they oppressed and neglected the poor and seized houses someone else had built.
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Their greed is never satisfied.
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When they eat, there is nothing left over, but now their prosperity comes to an end.
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At the height of their success all the weight of misery will crush them.
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Let them eat all they want! God will punish them in fury and anger.
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When they try to escape from an iron sword, a bronze bow will shoot them down.
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Arrows stick through their bodies; the shiny points drip with their blood, and terror grips their hearts.
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Everything they have saved is destroyed; a fire not lit by human hands burns them and all their family.
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Heaven reveals their sin, and the earth gives testimony against them.
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All their wealth will be destroyed in the flood of God's anger.
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This is the fate of wicked people, the fate that God assigns to them.
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