Jubilee2000 - Job - 20

20:1  Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said,

20:2  My thoughts certainly cause me to answer, and therefore, I make haste.

20:3  I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my intelligence causes me to answer.

20:4  Dost thou not know this that always was, since man was placed upon earth,

20:5  that the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?

20:6  Though his excellency mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches unto the clouds,

20:7  [yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him shall say, What is become of him?

20:8  He shall fly away as a dream and shall not be found: [yea], he shall flee away as a vision of the night.

20:9  The eye [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place behold him any more.

20:10  His poor sons shall go forth begging, and their hands shall restore that which he stole.

20:11  His bones are full [of the sins] of his youth, which shall be buried with him in the dust.

20:12  If wickedness was sweet in his mouth, if he hid it under his tongue,

20:13  if it seemed good unto him, and he did not forsake it, but savored it within his mouth,

20:14  his food shall be changed in his bowels, [it shall be] the gall of asps within him.

20:15  He has 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 slay him.

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

20:18  He shall restore the work [that was not his]; according to the substance that he took; neither shall he devour, nor rejoice.

20:19  Because he oppressed [and] forsook the poor; [because] he has violently taken away houses which he did not build,

20:20  therefore, he shall not feel quietness in his belly; he shall not escape with that which he desired.

20:21  Nothing is left that he did not eat; therefore, his goods shall not last.

20:22  In the fullness of his sufficiency, he shall come into anguish; the hands of all the wicked shall come upon him.

20:23  [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him and shall rain [it] upon him and upon his food.

20:24  He shall flee from the weapons of iron, [and] the bow of bronze shall strike him through.

20:25  He shall draw forth [an arrow] from his quiver, and [like] lightning it shall strike through his gall; terrors shall come upon him.

20:26  All darkness is kept for his secrets; a fire not blown shall consume him; his successor shall be broken 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 be taken captive; they shall be scattered in the day of his wrath.

20:29  This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage that God appoints unto him by his word.: