Job

²⁰All his days the wicked man suffers torment,throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant. ²¹Terrifying sounds fill his ears;in a time of peace marauders attack him. ²²He does not expect to escape from darkness;he is marked for the sword; ²³he wanders about – food for vultures;he knows that the day of darkness is at hand. ²⁴Distress and anguish terrify him;they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack, ²⁵for he stretches out his hand against God,and vaunts himself against the Almighty, ²⁶defiantly charging against himwith a thick, strong shield!