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Job - ch 20 v 1 - 20
- And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
- Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.
- I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and my spirit answereth me by mine understanding.
- Knowest thou not this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,
- The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?
- Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,
- Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
- He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.
- The eye which saw him shall see him not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.
- His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.
- His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
- Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue,
- Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,
- His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.
- He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: ùGod shall cast them out of his belly.
- He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.
- He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.
- That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice therein.
- For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.
- Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.
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