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title="Job 19">◄</a> Job 20 <a href="../job/21.htm" title="Job 21">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/20.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Zophar Speaks: The Wicked Will Suffer</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Therefore my thoughts answer me,</span><br /><span class="indent">because of my haste within me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I hear censure that insults me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Do you not know this from of old,</span><br /><span class="indent">since man was placed on earth,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">that the exulting of the wicked is short,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the joy of the godless but for a moment?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Though his height mount up to the heavens,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his head reach to the clouds,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">he will perish forever like his own dung;</span><br /><span class="indent">those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He will fly away like a dream and not be found;</span><br /><span class="indent">he will be chased away like a vision of the night.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The eye that saw him will see him no more,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor will his place any more behold him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His children will seek the favor of the poor,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his hands will give back his wealth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His bones are full of his youthful vigor,</span><br /><span class="indent">but it will lie down with him in the dust.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Though evil is sweet in his mouth,</span><br /><span class="indent">though he hides it under his tongue,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">though he is loath to let it go</span><br /><span class="indent">and holds it in his mouth,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">yet his food is turned in his stomach;</span><br /><span class="indent">it is the venom of cobras within him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He swallows down riches and vomits them up again;</span><br /><span class="indent">God casts them out of his belly.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He will suck the poison of cobras;</span><br /><span class="indent">the tongue of a viper will kill him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He will not look upon the rivers,</span><br /><span class="indent">the streams flowing with honey and curds.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He will give back the fruit of his toil</span><br /><span class="indent">and will not swallow it down;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">from the profit of his trading</span><br /><span class="indent">he will get no enjoyment.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For he has crushed and abandoned the poor;</span><br /><span class="indent">he has seized a house that he did not build.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Because he knew no contentment in his belly,</span><br /><span class="indent">he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">There was nothing left after he had eaten;</span><br /><span class="indent">therefore his prosperity will not endure.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress;</span><br /><span class="indent">the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">To fill his belly to the full,</span><br /><span class="indent">God<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew he">a</a></sup></span> will send his burning anger against him</span><br /><span class="indent">and rain it upon him into his body.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He will flee from an iron weapon;</span><br /><span class="indent">a bronze arrow will strike him through.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">It is drawn forth and comes out of his body;</span><br /><span class="indent">the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder;</span><br /><span class="indent">terrors come upon him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures;</span><br /><span class="indent">a fire not fanned will devour him;</span><br /><span class="indent">what is left in his tent will be consumed.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The heavens will reveal his iniquity,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the earth will rise up against him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The possessions of his house will be carried away,</span><br /><span class="indent">dragged off in the day of God’s<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew his">b</a></sup></span> wrath.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/20-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">This is the wicked man’s portion from 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