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Job 20 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:1 - Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:2 - For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:3 - I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:4 - Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:5 - That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:6 - Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:7 - Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:8 - He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:9 - The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:10 - His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:11 - His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:12 - Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:13 - Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:14 - His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:15 - He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:16 - He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:17 - Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:18 - He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:19 - Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:20 - There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:21 - He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:22 - Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:23 - God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:24 - He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:25 - He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 - All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:27 - The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:28 - The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:29 - This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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