The Book of Job, Chapter 20, Verse 22

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;

[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

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].

Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

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There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

King James Version

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

American Standard Version

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.

New English Translation

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.

World English Bible

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

[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.

He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of steel shall strike him through.

It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him.

All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

The increase of his house shall depart, [and his goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

But Job answered and said,

Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.