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class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Knowest thou <i>not</i> this of old, 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 <i>is</i> short, and the joy of the hypocrite <i>but</i> 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><i>Yet</i> he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where <i>is</i> 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 also <i>which</i> saw him shall <i>see him</i> 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 to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>His bones are full <i>of the sin</i> of his youth, which 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, <i>though</i> he hide it under his tongue;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><i>Though</i> he spare it, and forsake it not; 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><i>Yet</i> his meat in his bowels is turned, <i>it is</i> 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 see the rivers, the floods, the brooks 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 <i>it</i> down: according to <i>his</i> substance <i>shall</i> the restitution <i>be</i>, and he shall not rejoice <i>therein</i>.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Because he hath oppressed <i>and</i> hath forsaken the poor; <i>because</i> he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.</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: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><i>When</i> he is about to fill his belly, <i>God</i> shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain <i>it</i> 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, <i>and</i> the bow of steel shall strike him through.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors <i>are</i> upon him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>All darkness <i>shall be</i> hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The heaven 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, <i>and his goods</i> shall flow away in the day of his wrath.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a 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