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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Job 20 WEB</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">WEB</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 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">World English Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/kjv/heb/job/20.shtml"> [Par] </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Zophar: Triumph of the Wicked Short-lived</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is 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 puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on 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, 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 height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’ </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like 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 will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will 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 youth will 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 is 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 food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will 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 will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He will not look at 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>He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will 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 will not save anything of that in which he delights. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on 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 will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on 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. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will 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 will reveal his iniquity. The earth will 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 will depart. They will rush 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, the heritage appointed to him by God.” </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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