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Job - ch 20 v 1 - 20
- Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
- "Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
- I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
- Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,
- that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
- Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
- yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'
- He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
- The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.
- His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.
- His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
- "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
- though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
- yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
- He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
- He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
- He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
- That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
- For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
- "Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
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