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Chapter 20
Job NETtext 20:2  "This is why my troubled thoughts bring me back - because of my feelings within me.
Job NETtext 20:3  When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.
Job NETtext 20:4  "Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,
Job NETtext 20:5  that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
Job NETtext 20:6  Even though his stature reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,
Job NETtext 20:7  he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say, 'Where is he?'
Job NETtext 20:8  Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.
Job NETtext 20:9  People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.
Job NETtext 20:10  His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.
Job NETtext 20:11  His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.
Job NETtext 20:12  "If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,
Job NETtext 20:13  if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,
Job NETtext 20:14  his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.
Job NETtext 20:15  The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.
Job NETtext 20:16  He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.
Job NETtext 20:17  He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.
Job NETtext 20:18  He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.
Job NETtext 20:19  For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.
Job NETtext 20:20  For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.
Job NETtext 20:21  "Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.
Job NETtext 20:22  In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. the full force of misery will come upon him.
Job NETtext 20:23  "While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.
Job NETtext 20:24  If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.
Job NETtext 20:25  When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.
Job NETtext 20:26  Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
Job NETtext 20:27  The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.
Job NETtext 20:28  A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath.
Job NETtext 20:29  Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God."