Job 20

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

²Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.SelectedJob 20:2CopyShareAsk

³I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.SelectedJob 20:3CopyShareAsk

⁴Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,SelectedJob 20:4CopyShareAsk

⁵That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?SelectedJob 20:5CopyShareAsk

⁶Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;SelectedJob 20:6CopyShareAsk

⁷Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?SelectedJob 20:7CopyShareAsk

⁸He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.SelectedJob 20:8CopyShareAsk

⁹The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.SelectedJob 20:9CopyShareAsk

¹⁰His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.SelectedJob 20:10CopyShareAsk

¹¹His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.SelectedJob 20:11CopyShareAsk

¹²Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;SelectedJob 20:12CopyShareAsk

¹³Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:SelectedJob 20:13CopyShareAsk

¹⁴Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.SelectedJob 20:14CopyShareAsk

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

¹⁶He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.SelectedJob 20:16CopyShareAsk

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

¹⁸That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.SelectedJob 20:18CopyShareAsk

¹⁹Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;SelectedJob 20:19CopyShareAsk

²⁰Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.SelectedJob 20:20CopyShareAsk

²¹There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.SelectedJob 20:21CopyShareAsk

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

²³When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.SelectedJob 20:23CopyShareAsk

²⁴He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.SelectedJob 20:24CopyShareAsk

²⁵It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.SelectedJob 20:25CopyShareAsk

²⁶All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.SelectedJob 20:26CopyShareAsk

²⁷The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.SelectedJob 20:27CopyShareAsk

²⁸The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.SelectedJob 20:28CopyShareAsk

²⁹This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.SelectedJob 20:29CopyShareAsk