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20 : 1 ThenZophar the Naamathite answered and said:
20 : 2 Therefore mythoughts answer me,because of my haste within me.
20 : 3 I hear censure that insults me,and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
20 : 4 Do you not know this from of old,since man was placed on earth,
20 : 5 that the exulting of the wicked is short,and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
20 : 6 Though his height mount up to the heavens,and his head reach to the clouds,
20 : 7 he will perish forever like his owndung;those who have seen him will say,Where is he?
20 : 8 He will fly away likea dream and not be found;he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
20 : 9 The eye that saw him will see him no more,nor will his place any more behold him.
20 : 10 His children will seek the favor of the poor,and his hands willgive back his wealth.
20 : 11 His bones are full of hisyouthful vigor,but it will liedown with him in the dust.
20 : 12 Though evil is sweet in his mouth,though he hides itunder his tongue,
20 : 13 though he is loath to let it goand holds it in his mouth,
20 : 14 yet his food is turned in his stomach;it is the venom ofcobras within him.
20 : 15 He swallows down riches and vomits them up again;God casts them out of his belly.
20 : 16 He will suck the poison of cobras;the tongue of a viper will kill him.
20 : 17 He will not look uponthe rivers,the streams flowing withhoney andcurds.
20 : 18 He willgive back the fruit of his toiland will notswallow it down;from the profit of his tradinghe will get no enjoyment.
20 : 19 For he has crushed and abandoned the poor;he has seized a house that he did not build.
20 : 20 Because heknew nocontentment in his belly,he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.
20 : 21 There was nothing left after he had eaten;therefore his prosperity will not endure.
20 : 22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress;the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.
20 : 23 To fill his belly to the full,Godwill send his burning anger against himand rain it upon himinto his body.
20 : 24 He will flee from an iron weapon;a bronze arrow will strikehim through.
20 : 25 Itis drawn forth and comes out of his body;the glittering point comes out of hisgallbladder;terrors come upon him.
20 : 26 Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures;a fire not fanned will devour him;what is left in his tent will be consumed.
20 : 27 The heavens will reveal his iniquity,and the earth will rise up against him.
20 : 28 The possessions of his house will be carried away,dragged off in the day of God'swrath.
20 : 29 This is the wicked man's portion from God,the heritage decreed for him by God.