Job 20

Job 20

1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered ,

2“Therefore my thoughts answer me ,

even by reason of my haste that is in me .

3I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame .

The spirit of my understanding answers me .

4Don’t you know this from old time ,

since man was placed on earth,

5that the triumphing of the wicked is short ,

the joy of the godless but for a moment ?

6Though his height mount up to the heavens ,

and his head reach to the clouds ,

7yet he will perish forever like his own dung .

Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he ?’

8He will fly away as a dream , and will not be found .

Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night .

9The eye which saw him will see him no more ,

neither will his place see him any more .

10His children will seek the favour of the poor .

His hands will give back his wealth.

11His bones are full of his youth ,

but youth will lie down with him in the dust .

12“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth ,

though he hide it under his tongue ,

13though he spare it , and will not let it go ,

but keep it still within his mouth ,

14yet his food in his bowels is turned .

It is cobra venom within him .

15He has swallowed down riches , and he will vomit them up again .

God will cast them out of his belly.

16He will suck cobra venom .

The viper’s tongue will kill him .

17He will not look at the rivers ,

the flowing streams of honey and butter .

18He will restore that for which he laboured , and will not swallow it down .

He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.

19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor .

He has violently taken away a house , and he will not build it up .

20“Because he knew no quietness within him ,

he will not save anything of that in which he delights.

21There was nothing left that he didn’t devour,

therefore his prosperity will not endure .

22In the fullness of his sufficiency , distress will overtake him .

The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him .

23When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him .

It will rain on him while he is eating .

24He will flee from the iron weapon .

The bronze arrow will strike him through .

25He draws it out , and it comes out of his body .

Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver.

Terrors are on him .

26All darkness is laid up for his treasures .

An unfanned fire will devour him .

It will consume that which is left in his tent.

27The heavens will reveal his iniquity .

The earth will rise up against him .

28The increase of his house will depart .

They will rush away in the day of his wrath.

29This is the portion of a wicked man from God,

the heritage appointed to him by God.”

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