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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 20 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/20-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</a> > Job 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/19.htm" 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">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/job/20-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Zophar the Naamathite answered by saying:<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>in the end, he will be destroyed like a trash heap, and those who had seen him will say: “Where is he?”<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Like a dream that flies away, he will not be found; he will pass away like a nightmare.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The eyes that had seen him, will not see him; no longer will his own place admire him.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>His sons will be worn away by poverty, and his own hands will deliver his grief to him.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For, when evil will be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He will permit it, and not abandon it, and he will conceal it in his throat.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The riches that he devours, he will vomit up, and from his stomach God will draw them out.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>(May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.)<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He will be repaid for all he has done, yet he will not be consumed; according to the multitude of his schemes, so also will he suffer.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For, having broken in, he stripped the poor. He has quickly stolen away a house he did not build.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And yet his stomach will not be satisfied, and when he has the things he desires, he will not be able to possess them.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Nothing remained of his portion, and, because of this, nothing will continue of his kind.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When he will be satisfied, he will be constrained; he will seethe, and all anguish will fall upon him.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>May his stomach be filled, so that God may send forth the fury of his wrath to him and may rain down his battle upon him.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He will flee from weapons of iron, and he will fall in an arc of brass,<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>which had been drawn and had issued forth from its sheath, glittering in its bitterness: the horrible ones will go forth and approach over him.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>All darkness has been hidden in his secrecy. A fire that has not been set will devour him; he will be thrown down and forsaken in his tabernacle.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The heavens will reveal his sinfulness, and the earth will rise up against him.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The offspring of his house will be exposed; he will be pulled down in the day of God’s wrath.<p> <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 inheritance of his words from the Lord.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/19.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 19"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 19" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/21.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 21"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 21" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>