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The spirit of my understanding answers me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>"Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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