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in me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame, and the spirit of my understanding answereth me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Knowest thou not this of old time, since man was placed upon 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, and 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 excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which 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: yea, he shall be chased away as 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 behold him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and 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 it 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 be 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 meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall 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 the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He shall not look upon 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 which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; according to the substance that he hath 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 hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away an 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 aught of that wherein he delighteth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>There was nothing left that he devoured not; 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 fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: the hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon 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 shall cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon 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, and the bow of brass shall strike him through.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body: yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall; terrors are upon 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: a fire not blown by man 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, and 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, his goods shall flow 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, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised 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