Job 20
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* [[Job 20:1|1]] Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, | * [[Job 20:1|1]] Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, | ||
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:2|2]] Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:3|3]] I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:4|4]] Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:5|5]] That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:6|6]] Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:7|7]] Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:8|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: | + | * [[Job 20:9|9]] The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. |
* [[Job 20:10|10]] His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. | * [[Job 20:10|10]] His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. | ||
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:11|11]] His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:12|12]] Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:13|13]] Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:14|14]] Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:15|15]] He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:16|16]] He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:17|17]] He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. |
* [[Job 20:18|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 20:18|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: | + | * [[Job 20:19|19]] Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:20|20]] Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. |
* [[Job 20:21|21]] There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. | * [[Job 20:21|21]] There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. | ||
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:22|22]] In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:23|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: | + | * [[Job 20:24|24]] He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:25|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: | + | * [[Job 20:26|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: | + | * [[Job 20:27|27]] The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. |
| - | * [[Job 20: | + | * [[Job 20:28|28]] The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. |
* [[Job 20:29|29]] This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. | * [[Job 20:29|29]] This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. | ||
Revision as of 23:08, 6 July 2010
- 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.
