      | ¶ | Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, | |
| Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make haste. | ||
| I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. | ||
 | Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed upon earth, | ||
| That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment? | ||
| Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; | ||
| [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he? | ||
| He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. | ||
| The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. | ||
| His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. | ||
| His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. | ||
| Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue; | ||
| [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: | ||
| [Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him. | ||
| He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. | ||
| He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. | ||
| He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. | ||
| That 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]. | ||
| Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; | ||
| Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. | ||
| There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. | ||
| In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. | ||
| [When] 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. | ||
| He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of steel shall strike him through. | ||
| It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him. | ||
 | All 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. | ||
| The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. | ||
| The increase of his house shall depart, [and his goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath. | ||
| This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. |
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Job - Chapter 20
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