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nsb@Job:20:1 @ ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE SPEAKS:

nsb@Job:20:2 @ »My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer for I am greatly disturbed.

nsb@Job:20:3 @ »I hear a rebuke that dishonors me. Therefore my understanding inspires me to reply.

nsb@Job:20:4 @ »Do you not know from of old, ever since man was placed on the earth?

nsb@Job:20:5 @ »The success of the wicked is brief and the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

nsb@Job:20:6 @ »Though his pride reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,

nsb@Job:20:7 @ he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say: Where is he?

nsb@Job:20:8 @ »He flies away like a dream banished like a vision of the night. He cannot be found!

nsb@Job:20:9 @ »The eye that saw him will not see him again. His place will look on him no more.

nsb@Job:20:10 @ »His children must make amends to the poor. He must give back his wealth.

nsb@Job:20:11 @ »The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.

nsb@Job:20:12 @ »Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

nsb@Job:20:13 @ though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

nsb@Job:20:14 @ yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.

nsb@Job:20:15 @ »He will spit out the riches he swallowed. God will make his stomach vomit them up.

nsb@Job:20:16 @ »He will suck the poison of serpents. The fangs of an adder will kill him.

nsb@Job:20:17 @ »He will not look upon the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

nsb@Job:20:18 @ »What he toiled for he must give back uneaten. He will not enjoy the profit from his trading.

nsb@Job:20:19 @ »For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor and left them destitute. He has violently seized houses he did not build.

nsb@Job:20:20 @ »He will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.

nsb@Job:20:21 @ »There is nothing left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure.

nsb@Job:20:22 @ »Distress will overtake him in the midst of his plenty. The full force of misery will come upon him.

nsb@Job:20:23 @ »With his belly full, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows upon him.

nsb@Job:20:24 @ »Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.

nsb@Job:20:25 @ »He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him.

nsb@Job:20:26 @ »Total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

nsb@Job:20:27 @ »The heavens will expose his guilt. The earth will rise up against him!

nsb@Job:20:28 @ »A flood will carry off his house. Rushing waters will wash away his possessions on the day of Gods wrath.

nsb@Job:20:29 @ »This is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God.«

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