Job 20

1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,AKJV — Job 20:1

2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.AKJV — Job 20:2

3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.AKJV — Job 20:3

4 Know you not this of old, since man was placed on earth,AKJV — Job 20:4

5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?AKJV — Job 20:5

6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds;AKJV — Job 20:6

7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?AKJV — Job 20:7

8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.AKJV — Job 20:8

9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.AKJV — Job 20:9

10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.AKJV — Job 20:10

11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.AKJV — Job 20:11

12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;AKJV — Job 20:12

13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:AKJV — Job 20:13

14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.AKJV — Job 20:14

15 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.AKJV — Job 20:15

16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’ tongue shall slay him.AKJV — Job 20:16

17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.AKJV — Job 20:17

18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.AKJV — Job 20:18

19 Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away an house which he built not;AKJV — Job 20:19

20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.AKJV — Job 20:20

21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.AKJV — Job 20:21

22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come on him.AKJV — Job 20:22

23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath on him, and shall rain it on him while he is eating.AKJV — Job 20:23

24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.AKJV — Job 20:24

25 It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yes, the glittering sword comes out of his gall: terrors are on him.AKJV — Job 20:25

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.AKJV — Job 20:26

27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.AKJV — Job 20:27

28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.AKJV — Job 20:28

29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.AKJV — Job 20:29