Job 20 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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

Job 20:1

Job 20:1Then Zophar the Na'amathite answered:

Job 20:2

Job 20:2"Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.

Job 20:3

Job 20:3I hear censure which insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.

Job 20:4

Job 20:4Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed upon earth,

Job 20:5

Job 20:5that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

Job 20:6

Job 20:6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

Job 20:7

Job 20:7he will perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'

Job 20:8

Job 20:8He will fly away like a dream, and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

Job 20:9

Job 20:9The eye which saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.

Job 20:10

Job 20:10His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.

Job 20:11

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

Job 20:12

Job 20:12"Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

Job 20:13

Job 20:13though he is loath to let it go, and holds it in his mouth,

Job 20:14

Job 20:14yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the gall of asps within him.

Job 20:15

Job 20:15He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.

Job 20:16

Job 20:16He will suck the poison of asps; the tongue of a viper will kill him.

Job 20:17

Job 20:17He will not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.

Job 20:18

Job 20:18He will give back the fruit of his toil, and will not swallow it down; from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment.

Job 20:19

Job 20:19For he has crushed and abandoned the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.

Job 20:20

Job 20:20"Because his greed knew no rest, he will not save anything in which he delights.

Job 20:21

Job 20:21There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.

Job 20:22

Job 20:22In the fulness of his sufficiency he will be in straits; all the force of misery will come upon him.

Job 20:23

Job 20:23To fill his belly to the full God will send his fierce anger into him, and rain it upon him as his food.

Job 20:24

Job 20:24He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through.

Job 20:25

Job 20:25It is drawn forth and comes out of his body, the glittering point comes out of his gall; terrors come upon him.

Job 20:26

Job 20:26Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not blown upon will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.

Job 20:27

Job 20:27The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.

Job 20:28

Job 20:28The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God's wrath.

Job 20:29

Job 20:29This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God."

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Job 20 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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

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