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Job 20 :: New English Translation (NET)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:1 - Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:2 - "This is why my troubled thoughts bring me back - because of my feelings within me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:3 - When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:4 - "Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:5 - that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:6 - Even though his stature reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:7 - he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say, 'Where is he?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:9 - People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:10 - His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:11 - His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:12 - "If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:13 - if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:14 - his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:15 - The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:16 - He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:17 - He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:18 - He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:19 - For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:20 - For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:21 - "Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:22 - In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. the full force of misery will come upon him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:23 - "While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:24 - If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:27 - The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:28 - A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:29 - Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God."
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Job Chapter 20 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras