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20:1  Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said,
20:2  My thoughts certainly cause me to answer, and therefore, I make haste.
20:3  I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my intelligence causes me to answer.
20:4  Dost thou not know this that always was, since man was placed upon earth,
20:5  that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
20:6  Though his excellency mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches unto the clouds,
20:7  yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him shall say, What is become of him?
20:8  He shall fly away as a dream and shall not be found: yea, he shall flee away as a vision of the night.
20:9  The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place behold him any more.
20:10  His poor sons shall go forth begging, and their hands shall restore that which he stole.
20:11  His bones are full of the sins of his youth, which shall be buried with him in the dust.
20:12  If wickedness was sweet in his mouth, if he hid it under his tongue,
20:13  if it seemed good unto him, and he did not forsake it, but savored it within his mouth,
20:14  his food shall be changed in his bowels, it shall be the gall of asps within him.
20:15  He has swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly.
20:16  He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
20:17  He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
20:18  He shall restore the work that was not his; according to the substance that he took; neither shall he devour, nor rejoice.
20:19  Because he oppressed and forsook the poor; because he has violently taken away houses which he did not build,
20:20  therefore, he shall not feel quietness in his belly; he shall not escape with that which he desired.
20:21  Nothing is left that he did not eat; therefore, his goods shall not last.
20:22  In the fullness of his sufficiency, he shall come into anguish; the hands of all the wicked shall come upon him.
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 and upon his food.
20:24  He shall flee from the weapons of iron, and the bow of bronze shall strike him through.
20:25  He shall draw forth an arrow from his quiver, and like lightning it shall strike through his gall; terrors shall come upon him.
20:26  All darkness is kept for his secrets; a fire not blown shall consume him; his successor shall be broken in his tent.
20:27  The heavens shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
20:28  The increase of his house shall be taken captive; they shall be scattered in the day of his wrath.
20:29  This is the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage that God appoints unto him by his word.