The Book of Job 20

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1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and said ⚑

2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer and for this I make haste ⚑

3 I have heard the check of my reproach and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer ⚑

4 Knowest thou not this of old since man was placed upon earth ⚑

5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment ⚑

6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens and his head reach unto the clouds ⚑

7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung they which have seen him shall say Where is he ⚑

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 ⚑

9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more neither shall his place any more behold him ⚑

10 His children shall seek to please the poor and his hands shall restore their goods ⚑

11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth which shall lie down with him in the dust ⚑

12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth though he hide it under his tongue ⚑

13 Though he spare it and forsake it not but keep it still within his mouth ⚑

14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned it is the gall of asps within him ⚑

15 He hath swallowed down riches and he shall vomit them up again God shall cast them out of his belly ⚑

16 He shall suck the poison of asps the viper’s tongue shall slay him ⚑

17 He shall not see the rivers the floods the brooks of honey and butter ⚑

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 ⚑

19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not ⚑

20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly he shall not save of that which he desired ⚑

21 There shall none of his meat be left therefore shall no man look for his goods ⚑

22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits every hand of the wicked shall come upon him ⚑

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 ⚑

24 He shall flee from the iron weapon and the bow of steel shall strike him through ⚑

25 It is drawn and cometh out of the body yea the glittering sword cometh out of his gall terrors are upon him ⚑

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 ⚑

27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity and the earth shall rise up against him ⚑

28 The increase of his house shall depart and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath ⚑

29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage appointed unto him by God ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain