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JOB ยท Chapter 20
20:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
20:2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make
haste.
20:3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding
causes me to answer.
20:4 Know you not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the
hypocrite but for a moment?
20:6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach
unto the clouds;
20:7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have
seen him shall say, Where is he?
20:8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he
shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
20:9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall
his place any more behold him.
20:10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall
restore their goods.
20:11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down
with him in the dust.
20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under
his tongue;
20:13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within
his mouth:
20:14 Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps
within him.
20:15 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again:
God shall cast them out of his belly.
20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay
him.
20:17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey
and butter.
20:18 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.
20:19 Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he
has violently taken away an house which he built not;
20:20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not
save of that which he desired.
20:21 There shall none of his food be left; therefore shall no man
look for his goods.
20:22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every
hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
20:23 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.
20:24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall
strike him through.
20:25 It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yea, the glittering sword
comes out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
20:26 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.
20:27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise
up against him.
20:28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow
away in the day of his wrath.
20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage
appointed unto him by God.
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