job 20:1

  Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

job 20:2

  Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

job 20:3

  I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

job 20:4

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

job 20:5

  That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

job 20:6

  Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

job 20:7

  Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

job 20:8

  He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

job 20:9

  The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

job 20:10

  His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

job 20:11

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

job 20:12

  Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

job 20:13

  Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

job 20:14

  Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

job 20:15

  He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

job 20:16

  He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

job 20:17

  He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

job 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.

job 20:19

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

job 20:20

  Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

job 20:21

  There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

job 20:22

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

job 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.

job 20:24

  He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

job 20:25

  It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

job 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.

job 20:27

  The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

job 20:28

  The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

job 20:29

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