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vw@Job:20:1 @ Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

vw@Job:20:2 @ Therefore my uncertain thoughts make me answer, because of the anxiety within me.

vw@Job:20:3 @ I have heard the admonition against my reproaches, but the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.

vw@Job:20:4 @ Do you not know this from of old, ever since man was placed upon earth,

vw@Job:20:5 @ that the rejoicing of the wicked is near its end, and the mirth of the hypocrite is but for a moment?

vw@Job:20:6 @ Though his haughtiness mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches to the clouds,

vw@Job:20:7 @ yet he shall perish forever like his own dung; those who see him shall say, where is he?

vw@Job:20:8 @ He shall fly away like a dream, and not be found; yea, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

vw@Job:20:9 @ The eye that has seen him shall see him no more, nor will his place regard him anymore.

vw@Job:20:10 @ His children shall seek the favor of the poor, and his hands shall return his wealth.

vw@Job:20:11 @ His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

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

vw@Job:20:13 @ though he spares it and does not forsake it, but still keeps it in his mouth,

vw@Job:20:14 @ yet his food in his stomach has churned up; it is serpents venom within him.

vw@Job:20:15 @ He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; the Mighty God casts them out of his belly.

vw@Job:20:16 @ He shall suck the poison of serpents; the vipers tongue shall slay him.

vw@Job:20:17 @ He shall not see the streams, the rivers of honey and curds.

vw@Job:20:18 @ He shall give back that for which he labored, and shall not swallow it down; He shall have no enjoyment from the exchanges of his wealth.

vw@Job:20:19 @ For he has crushed and forsaken the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.

vw@Job:20:20 @ Surely he has known no ease in his belly; he shall not save anything he desires.

vw@Job:20:21 @ No food is left for him; there is no travail after his well-being.

vw@Job:20:22 @ In the fullness of his scorn he shall be in distress; every hand of trouble shall come against him.

vw@Job:20:23 @ When he is about to fill his stomach, God will cast upon him the fury of His wrath, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

vw@Job:20:24 @ If he flees from the iron weapon, a bronze bow shall pierce him through.

vw@Job:20:25 @ It has been drawn, and comes out the back; yea, the glittering point comes out of his gall. Terrors come upon him;

vw@Job:20:26 @ total darkness is his hidden treasure. An unfanned fire shall devour him; and any survivors in his tent shall tremble.

vw@Job:20:27 @ The heavens shall lay bare his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

vw@Job:20:28 @ The fruit of his house shall be removed, being poured out in the day of His wrath.

vw@Job:20:29 @ This is the portion from God for a wicked man, the heritage promised to him by the Mighty God.

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