• Job 20:1

    Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

  • Job 20:2

    Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

  • Job 20:3

    I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

  • Job 20:4

    Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

  • Job 20:5

    That the triumphing of the wicked is short,a and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

  • Job 20:6

    Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;b

  • Job 20:7

    Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

  • Job 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.

  • Job 20:9

    The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

  • Job 20:10

    His childrenc shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

  • Job 20:11

    His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

  • Job 20:12

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

  • Job 20:13

    Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still withind his mouth:

  • Job 20:14

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

  • Job 20:15

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

  • Job 20:16

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

  • Job 20:17

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

  • Job 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.

  • Job 20:19

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

  • Job 20:20

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

  • Job 20:21

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

  • Job 20:22

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

  • Job 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.

  • Job 20:24

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

  • Job 20:25

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

  • Job 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.

  • Job 20:27

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

  • Job 20:28

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

  • Job 20:29

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

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