Job:20

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* Then answered Zophar the Na ’amathite , and said , * Even therefore do my inmost thoughts give me an answer , and for this reason do I feel a strong excitement within me . * Reproof which casteth shame on me must I hear ; yet out of my understanding will the spirit give me an answer . * Dost thou know this ? from the very beginning of things , from the very time when man was placed upon earth it was , * That the triumphal shouting of the wicked is ever of but a recent date , and the joy of the hypocrite endureth only for a moment . * Though his exaltation should mount up to the heavens , and his head should reach unto the clouds ; * Yet when he but turneth round will he vanish for ever ; those who have seen him will say , Where is he ? * Like a dream will he fly away , and men will find him no more ; yea , he will be chased away like a vision of the night . * If an eye have surveyed him , it will not do so again , and it will not behold him any more in his place . * His children will suffer oppression from the indigent , and his hands will have to restore his wealth . * his bones are full of his youthful vigor ; but it will lie down with him in the dust . * If the evil be sweet in his mouth , he will conceal it under his tongue ; * He will cherish it , and not forsake it ; and hold it back within his palate ; * His food is thus changed within his bowels , and becometh the venom of asps within him . * The wealth which he hath swallowed , will he have to vomit up again ; God will drive it out of his belly . * The poison of asps will he have to suck ; the viper ’s tongue will slay him . * He shall not look with pleasure on streams , on flowing brooks of honey and cream . * He restoreth what he hath labored for , and will not swallow it down ; however much he may have obtained by toil , he will not have any joy of it . * Because he oppressed and forsook the indigent ; because he took violently away a house , shall he not rebuild it ; * Because he knew not quietness in his bosom , shall he not escape through what is the most precious to him . * Nothing was spared from his craving to eat : therefore shall his wealth not prosper . * In the fulness of his abundance will distress assail him : every hand of troubled will come against him . * In order to fill his belly , will send out against him the fury of his wrath , and will rain it upon him for his eating . * If he flee from the iron weapon , the brazen bow will strike him through . * He draweth it , and it cometh out of the body ; yea , out of his gall the glittering cometh forth : over him come the terrors . * Entire darkness is laid by for his treasures : a fire not urged by blowing will consume him ; it will destroy any one that is left in his tent . * The heavens will lay open his iniquity ; and the earth will raise herself up against him . * The product of his house will be banished , flowing away on the day of his wrath . * This is the portion of a wicked man from God , and his decreed heritage from God .

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