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class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-1.htm">1</a>Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-1.htm">1</a>Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-1.htm">1</a>Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-1.htm">1</a>Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-1.htm">1</a>Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-2.htm">2</a>"My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-2.htm">2</a>“Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-2.htm">2</a>"Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me respond, Even because of my inward agitation.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-2.htm">2</a>Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-2.htm">2</a>This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer, because I am upset! </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-3.htm">3</a>I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-3.htm">3</a>I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-3.htm">3</a>"I listened to the reproof which insults me, And the spirit of my understanding makes me answer.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-3.htm">3</a>I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-3.htm">3</a>I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding makes me reply. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-4.htm">4</a>"Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since mankind was placed on the earth,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-4.htm">4</a>Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed on earth,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-4.htm">4</a>"Do you know this from of old, From the establishment of man on earth,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-4.htm">4</a>Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-4.htm">4</a>Don't you know that ever since antiquity, from the time man was placed on earth, </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-5.htm">5</a>that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-5.htm">5</a>that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-5.htm">5</a>That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless momentary?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-5.htm">5</a>That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-5.htm">5</a>the joy of the wicked has been brief and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-6.htm">6</a>Though the pride of the godless person reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-6.htm">6</a>Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-6.htm">6</a>"Though his loftiness reaches the heavens, And his head touches the clouds,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-6.htm">6</a>Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-6.htm">6</a>Though his arrogance reaches heaven, and his head touches the clouds, </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-7.htm">7</a>he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-7.htm">7</a>he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-7.htm">7</a>He perishes forever like his refuse; Those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-7.htm">7</a>Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-7.htm">7</a>he will vanish forever like his own dung. Those who know him will ask, "Where is he?" </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-8.htm">8</a>Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found, banished like a vision of the night.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-8.htm">8</a>He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-8.htm">8</a>"He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him; Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-8.htm">8</a>He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-8.htm">8</a>He will fly away like a dream and never be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-9.htm">9</a>The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-9.htm">9</a>The eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-9.htm">9</a>"The eye which saw him sees him no longer, And his place no longer beholds him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-9.htm">9</a>The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-9.htm">9</a>The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his household will no longer see him. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-10.htm">10</a>His children must make amends to the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-10.htm">10</a>His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-10.htm">10</a>"His sons favor the poor, And his hands give back his wealth.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-10.htm">10</a>His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-10.htm">10</a>His children will beg from the poor, for his own hands must give back his wealth. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-11.htm">11</a>The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-11.htm">11</a>His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-11.htm">11</a>"His bones are full of his youthful vigor, But it lies down with him in the dust.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-11.htm">11</a>His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-11.htm">11</a>His bones may be full of youthful vigor, but will lie down with him in the grave. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-12.htm">12</a>"Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-12.htm">12</a>“Though evil is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-12.htm">12</a>"Though evil is sweet in his mouth And he hides it under his tongue,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-12.htm">12</a>Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-12.htm">12</a>Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue, </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-13.htm">13</a>though he cannot bear to let it go and lets it linger in his mouth,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-13.htm">13</a>though he is loath to let it go and holds it in his mouth,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-13.htm">13</a>Though he desires it and will not let it go, But holds it in his mouth,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-13.htm">13</a>Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-13.htm">13</a>though he cherishes it and will not let it go but keeps it in his mouth, </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-14.htm">14</a>yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-14.htm">14</a>yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the venom of cobras within him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-14.htm">14</a>Yet his food in his stomach is changed To the venom of cobras within him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-14.htm">14</a>Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-14.htm">14</a>yet the food in his stomach turns into cobras' venom inside him. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-15.htm">15</a>He will spit out the riches he swallowed; God will make his stomach vomit them up.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-15.htm">15</a>He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-15.htm">15</a>"He swallows riches, But will vomit them up; God will expel them from his belly.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-15.htm">15</a>He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-15.htm">15</a>He swallows wealth but must vomit it up; God will force it from his stomach. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-16.htm">16</a>He will suck the poison of serpents; the fangs of an adder will kill him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-16.htm">16</a>He will suck the poison of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-16.htm">16</a>"He sucks the poison of cobras; The viper's tongue slays him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-16.htm">16</a>He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-16.htm">16</a>He will suck the poison of cobras; a viper's fangs will kill him. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-17.htm">17</a>He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-17.htm">17</a>He will not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-17.htm">17</a>"He does not look at the streams, The rivers flowing with honey and curds.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-17.htm">17</a>He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-17.htm">17</a>He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-18.htm">18</a>What he toiled for he must give back uneaten; he will not enjoy the profit from his trading.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-18.htm">18</a>He will give back the fruit of his toil and will not swallow it down; from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-18.htm">18</a>"He returns what he has attained And cannot swallow it; As to the riches of his trading, He cannot even enjoy them.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-18.htm">18</a>That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-18.htm">18</a>He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he doesn't enjoy the profits from his trading. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-19.htm">19</a>For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute; he has seized houses he did not build.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-19.htm">19</a>For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he did not build.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-19.htm">19</a>"For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; He has seized a house which he has not built.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-19.htm">19</a>Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-19.htm">19</a>For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-20.htm">20</a>"Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-20.htm">20</a>“Because he knew no contentment in his belly, he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-20.htm">20</a>"Because he knew no quiet within him, He does not retain anything he desires.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-20.htm">20</a>Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-20.htm">20</a>Because his appetite is never satisfied, he does not let anything he desires escape. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-21.htm">21</a>Nothing is left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-21.htm">21</a>There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-21.htm">21</a>"Nothing remains for him to devour, Therefore his prosperity does not endure.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-21.htm">21</a>There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-21.htm">21</a>Nothing is left for him to consume; therefore, his prosperity will not last. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-22.htm">22</a>In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him; the full force of misery will come upon him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-22.htm">22</a>In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress; the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-22.htm">22</a>"In the fullness of his plenty he will be cramped; The hand of everyone who suffers will come against him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-22.htm">22</a>In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-22.htm">22</a>At the height of his success distress will come to him; the full weight of misery will crush him. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-23.htm">23</a>When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows on him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-23.htm">23</a>To fill his belly to the full, God will send his burning anger against him and rain it upon him into his body.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-23.htm">23</a>"When he fills his belly, God will send His fierce anger on him And will rain it on him while he is eating.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-23.htm">23</a>When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-23.htm">23</a>When he fills his stomach, God will send His burning anger against him, raining it down on him while he is eating. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-24.htm">24</a>Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-24.htm">24</a>He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-24.htm">24</a>"He may flee from the iron weapon, But the bronze bow will pierce him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-24.htm">24</a>He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-24.htm">24</a>If he flees from an iron weapon, an arrow from a bronze bow will pierce him. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/20.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-25.htm">25</a>He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-25.htm">25</a>It is drawn forth and comes out of his body; the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder; terrors come upon him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-25.htm">25</a>"It is drawn forth and comes out of his back, Even the glittering point from his gall. Terrors come upon him,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-25.htm">25</a>It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-25.htm">25</a>He pulls it out of his back, the flashing tip out of his liver. Terrors come over him. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-26.htm">26</a>total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-26.htm">26</a>Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not fanned will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-26.htm">26</a>Complete darkness is held in reserve for his treasures, And unfanned fire will devour him; It will consume the survivor in his tent.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-26.htm">26</a>All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-26.htm">26</a>Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned by human hands will consume him; it will feed on what is left in his tent. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-27.htm">27</a>The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up against him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-27.htm">27</a>The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-27.htm">27</a>"The heavens will reveal his iniquity, And the earth will rise up against him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-27.htm">27</a>The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-27.htm">27</a>The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-28.htm">28</a>A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-28.htm">28</a>The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God’s wrath.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-28.htm">28</a>"The increase of his house will depart; His possessions will flow away in the day of His anger.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-28.htm">28</a>The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-28.htm">28</a>The possessions in his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God's anger. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-29.htm">29</a>Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God."</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-29.htm">29</a>This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God.”</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-29.htm">29</a>"This is the wicked man's portion from God, Even the heritage decreed to him by God."</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-29.htm">29</a>This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/20-29.htm">29</a>This is the wicked man's lot from God, the inheritance God ordained for him. </td></tr></table><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"> THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com" target="_top">Biblica®</a>. 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