Job

Chapter 20

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¹Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,2 sermons²Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.1 sermon³I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.1 sermon⁴Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,1 sermon⁵That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?2 sermons⁶Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;1 sermon⁷Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?1 sermon⁸He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.1 sermon⁹The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.1 sermon¹⁰His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.1 sermon¹¹His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.1 sermon¹²Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;1 sermon¹³Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:1 sermon¹⁴Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.1 sermon¹⁵He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.1 sermon¹⁶He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.1 sermon¹⁷He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.1 sermon¹⁸That 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.1 sermon¹⁹Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;1 sermon²⁰Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.1 sermon²¹There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.1 sermon²²In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.1 sermon²³When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.1 sermon²⁴He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.1 sermon²⁵It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.1 sermon²⁶All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.1 sermon²⁷The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.1 sermon²⁸The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.1 sermon²⁹This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.1 sermon