Job 20

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Job 20:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
Job 20:2 Because of this, my disquieting thoughts answer me; / And hence my haste is in me.
Job 20:3 I hear the reproof that humiliates me, / And the spirit of my understanding answers me.
Job 20:4 Do you not know this from of old, / Since man was set upon the earth,
Job 20:5 That the joyous shouting of the wicked is short, / And the rejoicing of the profane is but for a moment?
Job 20:6 Though his arrogance goes up to heaven, / And his head touches the clouds;
Job 20:7 Like his own dung he perishes forever; / Those who have seen him say, Where is he?
Job 20:8 Like a dream he flies away and is not found; / Indeed he is chased away like a vision of the night.
Job 20:9 The eye looks on him then [sees him] no more, / Nor does his place observe him anymore.
Job 20:10 His children seek the favor of the poor, / And his hands return his wealth.
Job 20:11 His bones are full of youthful vigor, / Yet it lies down with him in the dust.
Job 20:12 Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, / [Though] he hides it under his tongue,
Job 20:13 [Though] he favors it and will not forsake it, / But holds it in his mouth;
Job 20:14 His food in his bowels is changed; / It is the venom of asps within him.
Job 20:15 He swallows down riches and vomits them up; / God casts them forth from his stomach.
Job 20:16 He sucks the poison of asps; / The tongue of the viper slays him.
Job 20:17 He will not look on the rivers, / The streams flowing with honey and butter.
Job 20:18 He will return what he toiled for and will not swallow [it] down; / And he will not rejoice according to the wealth of his trading.
Job 20:19 For he has oppressed [and] abandoned the poor; / He has violently seized a house that he did not build.
Job 20:20 Because he knew no respite in his craving, / Of that which he desired he will save nothing.
Job 20:21 There will be nothing left of what he has devoured; / Thus his prosperity will not endure.
Job 20:22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be distressed; / The hand of everyone in trouble will come against him.
Job 20:23 In order to fill his belly, / God will send the burning fierceness of His wrath on him / And will rain [it] upon him as his food.
Job 20:24 He will flee from the iron weapon, / [But] the bronze bow will strike him through.
Job 20:25 He draws [the arrow] out, and it comes out of his body; / Indeed the glittering point goes forth from his gall. / Terrors [come] upon him.
Job 20:26 Total darkness is laid up as his treasures; / A fire not fanned [by man] will devour him; / It will feed on what is left in his tent.
Job 20:27 The heavens will reveal his iniquity, / And the earth will rise up against him.
Job 20:28 The increase of his house will depart / As things swept away in the day of His wrath.
Job 20:29 This is the wicked man's portion from God / And the inheritance decreed to him by God.
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