Job 20 — WBMS
20Verse 1And then Zophar the Naamathite answered, and said,Verse 2Therefore my thoughts diverse come one after another; and the mind is ravished into diverse things.Verse 3I shall hear the teaching, by which thou reprovest me; and the spirit of mine understanding shall answer me.Verse 4I know this from the beginning, since man was set on [the] earth,Verse 5that the praising of wicked men is short, and the joy of an hypocrite is at the likeness of a point soon passing.Verse 6Though his pride go up into heaven, and his head toucheth the clouds,Verse 7he shall be lost in the end, as a dunghill; and, they that have seen him, shall say, Where is he?Verse 8As a dream flying away, or soon forgotten, he shall not be found; he shall pass as the sight of nights.Verse 9The eye that saw him shall not see him again; and his place shall no more behold him.Verse 10His sons shall be all-broken with neediness; and his hands shall yield to him his sorrow.Verse 11His bones shall be [full-]filled with the vices of his young waxing age; and they shall sleep with him in dust.Verse 12For when evil was sweet in his mouth, he hid it under his tongue.Verse 13He shall spare it, and shall not forsake it; and he shall hide it in his throat.Verse 14His bread in his womb shall be turned into the gall of snakes within him.Verse 15He shall vomit, or cast, out the riches which he hath devoured; and God shall draw those riches out of his womb.Verse 16He shall suck the gall of snakes; and the tongue of an adder shall slay him.Verse 17See he not the streams of the flood, of the strand [or stream] of honey, and of butter.Verse 18He shall suffer pains for all things which he hath done, nevertheless he shall not be wasted by those pains, but ever endure; and after the multitude of his findings, so shall he suffer.Verse 19For he brake, and made naked the house of the poor man; he ravished it, and builded it not.Verse 20And his womb was not yet[ful]-filled; and when he hath that, that he coveted, he may not hold it in possession.Verse 21There be left nothing of his meat; and therefore nothing shall dwell of his goods.Verse 22When he is full-filled with riches, yet he shall be made strait in covet-ousness; he shall burn in it, and all sorrow shall fall in upon him.Verse 23I would, that his womb be filled, that he send out into him the wrath of his strong vengeance, and rain his battle upon him.Verse 24He shall flee iron armours [or arms], and he shall fall into a brazen bow.Verse 25Which is led, or taken out of his sheath, or case, and this bow going out, and shining as lightning, shall smite him in bitterness; horrible fears shall go, and come upon him.Verse 26All darknesses be hid in his privates [or private things]; fire, which is not tended, shall devour him; he shall be tormented and left in his tabernacle.Verse 27Heavens shall show his wicked-ness; and earth shall rise up alto-gether against him.Verse 28The seed, or generation, of his house shall be open; it shall be drawn down in the day of the strong venge-ance of the Lord.Verse 29This is the part of a wicked man, which is given to him of God, and the heritage of his words is also of the Lord.