Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Job:
Chapter 20
1. THEN
answered Zo-phar the Na-am-a-thite, 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.
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