Job 20 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Zophar Says, "The Triumph of the Wicked Is Short"

Job 20:1

Job 20:1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

Job 20:2

Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me,

Even by reason of my haste that is in me.

Job 20:3

I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame;

And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.

Job 20:4

Knowest thou not this of old time,

Since man was placed upon earth,

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That the triumphing of the wicked is short,

And the joy of the godless but for a moment?

Job 20:6

Though his height mount up to the heavens,

And his head reach unto the clouds;

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Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung:

They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Job 20:8

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found:

Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Job 20:9

The eye which saw him shall see him no more;

Neither shall his place any more behold him.

Job 20:10

His children shall seek the favor of the poor,

And his hands shall give back his wealth.

Job 20:11

His bones are full of his youth,

But it shall lie down with him in the dust.

Job 20:12

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth,

Though he hide it under his tongue,

Job 20:13

Though he spare it, and will not let it go,

But keep it still within his mouth;

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Yet his food in his bowels is turned,

It is the gall of asps within him.

Job 20:15

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again;

God will cast them out of his belly.

Job 20:16

He shall suck the poison of asps:

The viper’s tongue shall slay him.

Job 20:17

He shall not look upon the rivers,

The flowing streams of honey and butter.

Job 20:18

That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down;

According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.

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For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor;

He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

Job 20:20

Because he knew no quietness within him,

He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.

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There was nothing left that he devoured not;

Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Job 20:22

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits:

The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.

Job 20:23

When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him,

And will rain it upon him while he is eating.

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He shall flee from the iron weapon,

And the bow of brass shall strike him through.

Job 20:25

He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body;

Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall:

Terrors are upon him.

Job 20:26

All darkness is laid up for his treasures:

A fire not blown by man shall devour him;

It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

Job 20:27

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity,

And the earth shall rise up against him.

Job 20:28

The increase of his house shall depart;

His goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

Job 20:29

This is the portion of a wicked man from God,

And the heritage appointed unto him by God.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Job 20 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Zophar Says, "The Triumph of the Wicked Is Short"

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