Job

¹ Zophar from Naamath again took his turn:

² You've put my teeth on edge, my stomach in a knot.

³ Well, here's a piece of my mind!

⁴ how things have been since the earliest days, when Adam and Eve were first placed on earth?

⁵ godless joy is only momentary.

⁶ strutting at the head of the celebrity parade,

⁷ Acquaintances look at them with disgust and say, 'What's that?'

⁸ like a shadowy illusion that vanishes in the light.

⁹ unnoticed, whether they come or go.

¹⁰ and they'll have to give back their ill-gotten gain.

¹¹ and youthful and vigorous, they'll die.

¹² roll it around on their tongues,

¹³ real gourmets of evil!

¹⁴ a bad case of food poisoning.

¹⁵ God makes them vomit it up.

¹⁶ a deadly diet—and it kills them.

¹⁷ with fresh-baked bread and cheese, and tall, cool drinks.

¹⁸ unable to relax and enjoy anything they've worked for.

¹⁹ took what never belonged to them.

²⁰ or who they are; their greed drives them relentlessly.

²¹ but they can't hold on to any of it.

²² they're served up a plate full of misery.

²³ God gives them a taste of his anger, and they get to chew on that for a while.

²⁴ they run smack into another.

²⁵ beaten to within an inch of their lives. They're trapped in a house of horrors,

²⁶ Their lives are a total loss— not a penny to their name, not so much as a bean.

²⁷ and hang their dirty laundry out for all to see.

²⁸ nothing surviving God's wrath.

²⁹ what they have to look forward to."