Job 20 :: New English Translation (NET)

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

Job 20:1

Job 20:1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

Job 20:2

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

Job 20:3

Job 20:3When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.

Job 20:4

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

Job 20:5

Job 20:5that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

Job 20:6

Job 20:6Even though his stature reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,

Job 20:7

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

Job 20:8

Job 20:8Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

Job 20:9

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

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Job 20:10His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.

Job 20:11

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

Job 20:12

Job 20:12"If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

Job 20:13

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

Job 20:14

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

Job 20:15

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

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Job 20:16He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.

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

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

Job 20:19

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

Job 20:20

Job 20:20For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

Job 20:21

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

Job 20:22

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

Job 20:23

Job 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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Job 20:24If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

Job 20:25

Job 20:25When 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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Job 20:26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

Job 20:27

Job 20:27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

Job 20:28

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

Job 20:29

Job 20:29Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God."

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Job 20 :: New English Translation (NET)

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

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