Job Chapter 20
20:1 | Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, |
20:2 | Therefore ![]() ![]() |
20:3 | I have heard the check of my reproach, and the ![]() ![]() |
20:4 | Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed upon ![]() |
20:5 | That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment? |
20:6 | Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the ![]() |
20:7 | [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he? |
20:8 | He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: ![]() |
20:9 | The eye also [which] saw him shall ![]() |
20:10 | His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. |
20:11 | His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. |
20:12 | Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue; |
20:13 | [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: |
20:14 | [Yet] his ![]() |
20:15 | He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. |
20:16 | He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper' tongue shall slay him. |
20:17 | He shall not ![]() |
20:18 | That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein]. |
20:19 | Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an ![]() |
20:20 | Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not ![]() |
20:21 | There shall none of his ![]() |
20:22 | In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. |
20:23 | [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating. |
20:24 | He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of steel shall strike him through. |
20:25 | It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; ![]() ![]() |
20:26 | All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. |
20:27 | The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the ![]() |
20:28 | The increase of his ![]() ![]() |
20:29 | This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. |