Darby - Job - 20

20:1  And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

20:2  Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.

20:3  I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.

20:4  Knowest thou [not] this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,

20:5  The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?

20:6  Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,

20:7  Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

20:8  He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.

20:9  The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.

20:10  His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.

20:11  His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

20:12  Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth [and] he hide it under his tongue,

20:13  [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,

20:14  His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.

20:15  He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again:God shall cast them out of his belly.

20:16  He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.

20:17  He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.

20:18  That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice [therein].

20:19  For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.

20:20  Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.

20:21  Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

20:22  In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.

20:23  It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.

20:24  If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.

20:25  He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

20:26  All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.

20:27  The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

20:28  The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger.

20:29  This is the portion of the wicked man fromGod, and the heritage appointed to him byGod.