Job 20 — GNV
20Verse 1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,Verse 2Doubtlesse my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.Verse 3I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.Verse 4Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,Verse 5That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?Verse 6Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,Verse 7Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?Verse 8He shall flee away as a dreame, and they shall not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,Verse 9So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more.Verse 10His children shall flatter the poore, and his hands shall restore his substance.Verse 11His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shall lie downe with him in the dust.Verse 12When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,Verse 13And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,Verse 14Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.Verse 15He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.Verse 16He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.Verse 17He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.Verse 18He shall restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, and he shall enioy it no more.Verse 19For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.Verse 20Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.Verse 21There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shall hope for his goods.Verse 22When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him.Verse 23He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate.Verse 24He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shall strike him through.Verse 25The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.Verse 26All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed.Verse 27The heauen shall declare his wickednes, and the earth shall rise vp against him.Verse 28The increase of his house shall go away: it shall flow away in the day of his wrath.Verse 29This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage that he shall haue of God for his wordes.