20Job 20

1And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --Select Job 20:1

2Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.Select Job 20:2

3The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:Select Job 20:3

4This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?Select Job 20:4

5That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,Select Job 20:5

6Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike--Select Job 20:6

7As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where is he?'Select Job 20:7

8As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,Select Job 20:8

9The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.Select Job 20:9

10His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.Select Job 20:10

11His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.Select Job 20:11

12Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,Select Job 20:12

13Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,Select Job 20:13

14His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps is in his heart.Select Job 20:14

15Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.Select Job 20:15

16Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.Select Job 20:16

17He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.Select Job 20:17

18He is giving back what he laboured for, And doth not consume it ; As a bulwark is his exchange, and he exults not.Select Job 20:18

19For he oppressed--he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.Select Job 20:19

20For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.Select Job 20:20

21There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.Select Job 20:21

22In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.Select Job 20:22

23It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.Select Job 20:23

24He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.Select Job 20:24

25One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him are terrors.Select Job 20:25

26All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.Select Job 20:26

27Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.Select Job 20:27

28Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.Select Job 20:28

29This is the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.Select Job 20:29