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