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Job - ch 20 v 1 - 20
- Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:
- Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.
- The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.
- This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,
- that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
- If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:
- In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?
- As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:
- The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.
- His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render him his sorrow.
- His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.
- For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
- He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.
- His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him.
- The riches which he hath swallowed; he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.
- He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.
- (Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.)
- He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.
- Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.
- And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them.
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