noyes - Job:20

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

noyes@Job:20:2 @ For this do my thoughts lead me to reply, And for this is my ardor within me.

noyes@Job:20:3 @ I have heard my shameful rebuke; And the spirit, from my understanding, answereth for me.

noyes@Job:20:4 @ Knowest thou not, that from the days of old, From the time when man was placed upon the earth,

noyes@Job:20:5 @ The triumphing of the wicked hath been short, And the joy of the impious but for a moment?

noyes@Job:20:6 @ Though his greatness mount up to the heavens, And his head reach to the clouds,

noyes@Job:20:7 @ Yet shall he perish for ever, and be mingled with dust; They who saw him shall say, Where is he?

noyes@Job:20:8 @ He shall flee away like a dream, and shall not be found; Yea, he shall disappear like a vision of the nigh.

noyes@Job:20:9 @ The eye also which saw him shall see him no more, And his dwellingplace shall never more behold him.

noyes@Job:20:10 @ His sons shall seek the favor of the poor, And their hands shall give back his wealth.

noyes@Job:20:11 @ His bones are full of his youth, But they shall lie down with him in the dust.

noyes@Job:20:12 @ Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,

noyes@Job:20:13 @ Though he cherish it, and will not part with it, And keep it fast in his mouth,

noyes@Job:20:14 @ Yet his meat shall be changed within him, And become to him the poison of asps.

noyes@Job:20:15 @ He hath glutted himself with riches, And he shall throw them up again; Yea, God shall cast them out of his body.

noyes@Job:20:16 @ He shall suck the poison of asps; The tongue of the viper shall destroy him.

noyes@Job:20:17 @ He shall never see the flowing streams, And the rivers of honey and milk.

noyes@Job:20:18 @ The fruits of his toil he shall give back, and shall not enjoy them: It is substance to be restored, and he shall not rejoice therein.

noyes@Job:20:19 @ Because he hath oppressed and abandoned the poor, And seized upon the house which he did not build;

noyes@Job:20:20 @ Because he knew no rest in his bosom, He shall not save that in which he delighteth.

noyes@Job:20:21 @ Because nothing escaped his greediness, His prosperity shall not endure.

noyes@Job:20:22 @ In the fulness of his abundance he shall be brought low; Every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.

noyes@Job:20:23 @ He shall, indeed, have wherewith to fill himself: God shall send upon him the fury of his anger, And rain it down upon him for his food.

noyes@Job:20:24 @ If he fleeth from the iron weapon, The bow of brass shall pierce him through.

noyes@Job:20:25 @ He draweth the arrow, and it cometh forth from his body; Yea, the glittering steel cometh out of his gall. Terrors are upon him;

noyes@Job:20:26 @ Calamity of every kind is treasured up for him. A fire not blown shall consume him; It shall consume whatever is left in his tent.

noyes@Job:20:27 @ The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.

noyes@Job:20:28 @ The substance of his house shall disappear; It shall flow away in the day of His wrath.

noyes@Job:20:29 @ Such is the portion of the wicked man from God, And the inheritance appointed for him by the Almighty.