The Book of Job

20: 1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

 ^20:2Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me,

 Even by reason of my haste that is in me.

 ^20:3I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame;

 And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.

 ^20:4Knowest thou not this of old time,

 Since man was placed upon earth,

 ^20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short,

 And the joy of the godless but for a moment?

 ^20:6Though his height mount up to the heavens,

 And his head reach unto the clouds;

 ^20:7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung:

 They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?

 ^20:8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found:

 Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

 ^20:9The eye which saw him shall see him no more;

 Neither shall his place any more behold him.

 ^20:10His children shall seek the favor of the poor,

 And his hands shall give back his wealth.

 ^20:11His bones are full of his youth,

 But it shall lie down with him in the dust.
 
 

 ^20:12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth,

 Though he hide it under his tongue,

 ^20:13Though he spare it, and will not let it go,

 But keep it still within his mouth;

 ^20:14Yet his food in his bowels is turned,

 It is the gall of asps within him.

 ^20:15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again;

 God will cast them out of his belly.

 ^20:16He shall suck the poison of asps:

 The viper's tongue shall slay him.

 ^20:17He shall not look upon the rivers,

 The flowing streams of honey and butter.

 ^20:18That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down;

 According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.

 ^20:19For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor;

 He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
 
 

 ^20:20Because he knew no quietness within him,

 He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.

 ^20:21There was nothing left that he devoured not;

 Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

 ^20:22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits:

 The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.

 ^20:23When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him,

 And will rain it upon him while he is eating.

 ^20:24He shall flee from the iron weapon,

 And the bow of brass shall strike him through.

 ^20:25He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body;

 Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall:

 Terrors are upon him.

 ^20:26All darkness is laid up for his treasures:

 A fire not blown by man shall devour him;

 It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

 ^20:27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity,

 And the earth shall rise up against him.

 ^20:28The increase of his house shall depart;

 His goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

 ^20:29This is the portion of a wicked man from God,

 And the heritage appointed unto him by God.