Job 20
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| 1 | Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and saide, |
| 2 | Therefore doe my thoughts cause mee to answere, and for this I make haste. |
| 3 | I haue heard the checke of my reproach, and the spirit of my vnderstanding causeth me to answere. |
| 4 | Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed vpon earth, |
| 5 | That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the ioy of the hypocrite but for a moment? |
| 6 | Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauens, and his head reach vnto the clouds: |
| 7 | Yet he shall perish for euer, like his owne doung: they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is he? |
| 8 | He shall flie away as a dreame, and shall not be found: yea he shalbe 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 seeke to please the poore, and his hands shall restore their goods. |
| 11 | His bones are ful of the sinne of his youth, which shall ye downe with him in the dust. |
| 12 | Though wickednes be sweet in his mouth, though hee hide it vnder his tongue; |
| 13 | Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keepe it stil within his mouth: |
| 14 | Yet his meate in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of Aspes within him. |
| 15 | He hath swallowed downe riches, and hee shall vomite them vp againe: God shall cast them out of his belly. |
| 16 | He shall sucke the poison of Aspes: the vipers tongue shall slay him. |
| 17 | Hee shall not see the riuers, the floods, the brookes of hony and butter. |
| 18 | That which he laboured for, shall he restore, & shall not swallow it downe: according to his substance shall the restitution bee, and hee shall not reioyce therein. |
| 19 | Because hee hath oppressed, and hath forsaken the poore; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not: |
| 20 | Surely he shall not feele quietnesse in his belly, hee shall not saue of that which he desired. |
| 21 | There shall none of his meat be left, therefore shall no man looke for his goods. |
| 22 | In the fulnesse of his sufficiencie, he shalbe in straites: euery hand of the wicked shall come vpon him. |
| 23 | When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the furie of his wrath vpon him, and shall raine it vpon him while he is eating. |
| 24 | He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steele shall strike him through. |
| 25 | It is drawen, and commeth out of the body; yea the glistering sword commeth out of his gall; terrours are vpon him. |
| 26 | All darknesse shalbe hid in his secret places: a fire not blowen shall consume him; it shall goe ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. |
| 27 | The heauen shall reueale his iniquitie: and the earth shall rise vp 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 vnto him by God. |