Job 20

  1. Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 🔗
  2. Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. 🔗
  3. I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. 🔗
  4. Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, 🔗
  5. That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 🔗
  6. Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; 🔗
  7. Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? 🔗
  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. 🔗
  9. The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. 🔗
  10. His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. 🔗
  11. His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. 🔗
  12. Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; 🔗
  13. Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 🔗
  14. Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. 🔗
  15. He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. 🔗
  16. He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper2019s 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. 🔗
  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. 🔗
  27. The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. 🔗
  28. The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. 🔗
  29. This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. 🔗

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