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The Book of Job, Chapter 20, Verse 15

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14
[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.
King James Version
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
American Standard Version
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.
New English Translation
The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.
World English Bible
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
16
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
17
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
18
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein].
19
Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
20
Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
21
There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
22
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
23
[When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating.
24
He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of steel shall strike him through.
25
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him.