Geneva1599 - Job - 20

20:1  Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,

20:2  Doubtlesse my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.

20:3  I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.

20:4  Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,

20:5  That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?

20:6  Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,

20:7  Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?

20:8  He shall flee away as a dreame, and they shall not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,

20:9  So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more.

20:10  His children shall flatter the poore, and his hands shall restore his substance.

20:11  His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shall lie downe with him in the dust.

20:12  When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,

20:13  And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,

20:14  Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.

20:15  He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.

20:16  He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.

20:17  He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.

20:18  He shall restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, and he shall enioy it no more.

20:19  For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.

20:20  Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.

20:21  There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shall hope for his goods.

20:22  When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him.

20:23  He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate.

20:24  He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shall strike him through.

20:25  The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.

20:26  All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed.

20:27  The heauen shall declare his wickednes, and the earth shall rise vp against him.

20:28  The increase of his house shall go away: it shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

20:29  This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage that he shall haue of God for his wordes.