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