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Job 20:18

New Century Version

They must give back what they worked for without eating it; they will not enjoy the money they made from their trading,

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Their children will have to pay back the poor, and they will have to give up their wealth.

They have swallowed riches, but they will spit them out; God will make them vomit their riches up.

The happiness of evil people is brief, and the joy of the wicked lasts only a moment.

But good people will wear what evil people have gathered, and the innocent will divide up their silver.

I have not celebrated my great wealth or the riches my hands had gained.

“I have not been happy when my enemies fell or laughed when they had trouble.

then let other people eat what I have planted, and let my crops be plowed up.

Let’s swallow them alive, as death does; let’s swallow them whole, as the grave does.

Wise people’s houses are full of the best foods and olive oil, but fools waste everything they have.

“How terrible it will be for one who builds his palace by doing evil, who cheats people so he can build its upper rooms. He makes his own people work for nothing and does not pay them.

“But you only look for and think about what you can get dishonestly. You are even willing to kill innocent people to get it. You feel free to hurt people and to steal from them.”

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has defeated and destroyed us. In the past he took our people away, and we became like an empty jar. He was like a giant snake that swallowed us. He filled his stomach with our best things. Then he spit us out.

I will punish the god Bel in Babylon. I will make him spit out what he has swallowed. Nations will no longer come to Babylon; even the wall around the city will fall.

All your enemies open their mouths to speak against you. They make fun and grind their teeth in anger. They say, “We have swallowed you up. This is the day we were waiting for! We have finally seen it happen.”

The time has come; the day has arrived. Don’t let the buyer be happy or the seller be sad, because my burning anger is against the whole crowd.

Israel, do not rejoice; don’t shout for joy as the other nations do. You have been like a prostitute against your God. You love the pay of prostitutes on every threshing floor.

Listen to me, you who walk on helpless people, you who are trying to destroy the poor people of this country, saying,

“How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You close the door for people to enter the kingdom of heaven. You yourselves don’t enter, and you stop others who are trying to enter. [

You guide the people, but you are blind! You are like a person who picks a fly out of a drink and then swallows a camel!

You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will force her to have sexual relations with him. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not get its grapes.

People you don’t know will eat the crops your land and hard work have produced. You will be mistreated and abused all your life.




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