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Job - ch 20 v 1 - 20
- Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
- Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
- I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
- Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
- That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- Though his excellence shall mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds;
- Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?
- He shall fly away as a dream, and will not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
- The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
- His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
- His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
- Though wickedness may be sweet in his mouth, though he may hide it under his tongue;
- Though he may spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
- Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
- He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
- He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
- He shall not see the river, the floods, the brooks of honey and buttermilk.
- That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice in it.
- Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.
- Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
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