20Job 20

1Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:Select Job 20:1

2Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.Select Job 20:2

3The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.Select Job 20:3

4This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,Select Job 20:4

5That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.Select Job 20:5

6If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:Select Job 20:6

7In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?Select Job 20:7

8As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:Select Job 20:8

9The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.Select Job 20:9

10His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.Select Job 20:10

11His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.Select Job 20:11

12For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.Select Job 20:12

13He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.Select Job 20:13

14His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him,Select Job 20:14

15The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.Select Job 20:15

16He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.Select Job 20:16

17Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.Select Job 20:17

18He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.Select Job 20:18

19Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.Select Job 20:19

20And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them.Select Job 20:20

21There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:Select Job 20:21

22When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.Select Job 20:22

23May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.Select Job 20:23

24He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.Select Job 20:24

25The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon him.Select Job 20:25

26All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle.Select Job 20:26

27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.Select Job 20:27

28The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath.Select Job 20:28

29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.Select Job 20:29