Chapter
Job 20
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Book 1
Verses 29
| Reference | Verse |
|---|---|
| Job 20:1 | Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, |
| Job 20:2 | Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. |
| Job 20:3 | I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. |
| Job 20:4 | Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, |
| Job 20:5 | That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? |
| Job 20:6 | Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; |
| Job 20:7 | Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? |
| Job 20:8 | 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 20:9 | The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. |
| Job 20:10 | His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. |
| Job 20:11 | His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. |
| Job 20:12 | Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; |
| Job 20:13 | Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: |
| Job 20:14 | Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. |
| Job 20:15 | He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. |
| Job 20:16 | He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him. |
| Job 20:17 | He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. |
| Job 20:18 | 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 20:19 | Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; |
| Job 20:20 | Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. |
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