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Job 20:1: Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,<br/>
Job 20:2: Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.<br/> 
Job 20:3: I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.<br/>
Job 20:4: Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, <br/>
Job 20:5: That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? <br/>
Job 20:6: Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;<br/>
Job 20:7: Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?<br/>
Job 20:8: He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.<br/>
Job 20:9: The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.<br/>
Job 20:10: His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.<br/>
Job 20:11: His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.<br/>
Job 20:12: Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;<br/>
Job 20:13: Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:<br/>
Job 20:14: Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.<br/>
Job 20:15: He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.<br/>
Job 20:16: He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.<br/>
Job 20:17: He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.<br/>
Job 20:18: That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.<br/>
Job 20:19: Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;<br/>
Job 20:20: Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.<br/>
Job 20:21: There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.<br/>
Job 20:22: In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.<br/>
Job 20:23: When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.<br/>
Job 20:24: He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.<br/>
Job 20:25: It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. <br/>
Job 20:26: All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.<br/>
Job 20:27: The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. <br/>
Job 20:28: The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.<br/> 
Job 20:29: This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.[[Category:Bible Topic]]