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Job 15:20

Verse 20 of 35. The 15th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

16how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

17“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare

18(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

19to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):

20the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

22He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

24Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.