Job Chapter 20

• Job 20:1
  Job.
• Job 20:2
  Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
• Job 20:3
  “Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
• Job 20:4
  I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
• Job 20:5
  Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,
• Job 20:6
  that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
• Job 20:7
  Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
• Job 20:8
  yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
• Job 20:9
  He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
• Job 20:10
  The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.
• Job 20:11
  His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth.
• Job 20:12
  His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.
• Job 20:13
  “Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
• Job 20:14
  though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth,
• Job 20:15
  yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
• Job 20:16
  He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
• Job 20:17
  He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
• Job 20:18
  He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
• Job 20:19
  He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
• Job 20:20
  For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
• Job 20:21
  “Because he knew no quietness within him, he will not save anything of that in which he delights.
• Job 20:22
  There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure.
• Job 20:23
  In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.
• Job 20:24
  When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
• Job 20:25
  He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.
• Job 20:26
  He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.
• Job 20:27
  All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.
• Job 20:28
  The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him.
• Job 20:29
  The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.
• Job 20:30
  This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”