Job 20
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- 1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
- 2"Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
- 3I have heard the rebuke of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
- 4Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed upon the earth,
- 5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- 6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
- 7yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'
- 8He shall fly away like a dream and shall not be found; yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
- 9The eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place see him any longer.
- 10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
- 11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
- 12Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,
- 13though he spares it and does not forsake it, but keeps it still within his mouth,
- 14yet his food in his bowels is turned; it is the gall of asps within him.
- 15He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God shall cast them out of his belly.
- 16He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.
- 17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
- 18That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice in it.
- 19Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor, because he has violently taken away a house which he did not build,
- 20surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly; he shall not save of that which he desired.
- 21There shall none of his food be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
- 22In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
- 23When 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.
- 24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
- 25It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yes, the glittering sword comes out of his gall. Terrors are upon him.
- 26All darkness shall be hidden in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him who is left in his tabernacle.
- 27The heaven shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
- 28The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
- 29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God."