Job 20 — DBY
20Verse 1And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,Verse 2Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.Verse 3I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.Verse 4Knowest thou [not] this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,Verse 5The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?Verse 6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,Verse 7Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?Verse 8He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.Verse 9The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.Verse 10His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.Verse 11His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.Verse 12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth [and] he hide it under his tongue,Verse 13[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,Verse 14His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.Verse 15He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again:*God shall cast them out of his belly.Verse 16He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.Verse 17He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.Verse 18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice [therein].Verse 19For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.Verse 20Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.Verse 21Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.Verse 22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.Verse 23It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.Verse 24If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.Verse 25He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.Verse 26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.Verse 27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.Verse 28The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger.Verse 29This is the portion of the wicked man from°God, and the heritage appointed to him by*God.