Job:20

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* Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said : * Therefore my uncertain thoughts make me answer , because of the anxiety within me . * I have heard the admonition against my reproaches , but the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer . * Do you not know this from of old , ever since man was placed upon earth , * that the rejoicing of the wicked is near its end , and the mirth of the hypocrite is but for a moment ? * Though his haughtiness mounts up to the heavens , and his head reaches to the clouds , * yet he shall perish forever like his own dung ; those who see him shall say , where is he ? * He shall fly away like a dream , and not be found ; yea , he shall be chased away like a vision of the night . * The eye that has seen him shall see him no more , nor will his place regard him anymore . * His children shall seek the favor of the poor , and his hands shall return his wealth . * His bones are full of his youthful vigor , but it shall lie down with him in the dust . * Though evil is sweet in his mouth , and he hides it under his tongue , * though he spares it and does not forsake it , but still keeps it in his mouth , * yet his food in his stomach has churned up ; it is serpent ’s venom within him . * He swallows down riches and vomits them up again ; the Mighty God casts them out of his belly . * He shall suck the poison of serpents ; the viper ’s tongue shall slay him . * He shall not see the streams , the rivers of honey and curds . * 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 . * For he has crushed and forsaken the poor , he has seized a house which he did not build . * Surely he has known no ease in his belly ; he shall not save anything he desires . * No food is left for him ; there is no travail after his well-being . * In the fullness of his scorn he shall be in distress ; every hand of trouble shall come against him . * 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 . * If he flees from the iron weapon , a bronze bow shall pierce him through . * It has been drawn , and comes out the back ; yea , the glittering point comes out of his gall . Terrors come upon him ; * total darkness is his hidden treasure . An unfanned fire shall devour him ; and any survivors in his tent shall tremble . * The heavens shall lay bare his iniquity , and the earth shall rise up against him . * The fruit of his house shall be removed , being poured out in the day of His wrath . * This is the portion from God for a wicked man , the heritage promised to him by the Mighty God .

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