Job 20:6-16

6 The evil might become world famous, strutting at the head of the celebrity parade,
7 But still end up in a pile of dung. Acquaintances look at them with disgust and say, 'What's that?'
8 They fly off like a dream that can't be remembered, like a shadowy illusion that vanishes in the light.
9 Though once notorious public figures, now they're nobodies, unnoticed, whether they come or go.
10 Their children will go begging on skid row, and they'll have to give back their ill-gotten gain.
11 Right in the prime of life, and youthful and vigorous, they'll die.
12 "They savor evil as a delicacy, roll it around on their tongues,
13 Prolong the flavor, a dalliance in decadence - real gourmets of evil!
14 But then they get stomach cramps, a bad case of food poisoning.
15 They gag on all that rich food; God makes them vomit it up.
16 They gorge on evil, make a diet of that poison - a deadly diet - and it kills them.
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