Job 20

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        Job 20
      
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         1.  Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
      
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         2.  Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
      
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         3.  I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me 
        to answer.
      
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         4.  Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
      
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         5.  That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a 
        moment?
      
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         6.  Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
      
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         7.  Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, 
        Where is he?
      
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         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.
      
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         9.  The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more 
        behold him.
      
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         10.  His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
      
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         11.  His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the 
        dust.
      
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         12.  Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
      
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        <b>13.  Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:</b>
      
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         14.  Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
      
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         15.  He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them 
        out of his belly.
      
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         16.  He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
      
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         17.  He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
      
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         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.
      
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         19.  Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently 
        taken away an house which he builded not;
      
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         20.  Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he 
        desired.
      
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         21.  There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
      
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         22.  In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked 
        shall come upon him.
      
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         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.
      
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         24.  He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
      
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         25.  It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his 
        gall: terrors are upon him.
      
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         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.
      
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         27.  The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
      
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         28.  The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of 
        his wrath.
      
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         29.  This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by 
        God.
      
      
        
      
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