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20:1  1 Zophar showeth, that the wicked and the covetous shall have a short end, 22 though for a time they flourish. Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
20:2  Doubtless my thoughts cause me to answer, and therefore I make haste.
20:3  I have heard the correction of my reproach: therefore the spirit of mine understanding causeth me to answer.
20:4  Knowest thou not this of old? and since God placed man upon the earth,
20:5  That the rejoicing of the wicked is short, and that the joy of the hypocrites is but a moment?
20:6  Though his excellency mount up to the heaven, and his head reach unto the clouds,
20:7  Yet shall he perish forever like his dung, and they which have seen him, shall say, Where is he?
20:8  He shall flee away as a dream, and they shall not find him, and shall pass away as a vision of the night.
20:9  So that the eye which had seen him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more.
20:10  His children shall flatter the poor, and his hands shall restore his substance.
20:11  His bones are full of the sin of his youth, and it shall lie down with him in the dust.
20:12  When wickedness was sweet in his mouth, and he hid it under his tongue,
20:13  And favored it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,
20:14  Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Asps was in the midst of him.
20:15  He hath devoured substance, and he shall vomit it: for God shall draw it out of his belly.
20:16  He shall suck the gall of Asps, and the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
20:17  He shall not see the rivers, nor the floods and streams of honey and butter.
20:18  He shall restore the labor, and shall devour no more: even according to the substance shall be his exchange, and he shall enjoy it no more.
20:19  For he hath undone many: he hath forsaken the poor, and hath spoiled houses which he built not.
20:20  Surely he shall feel no quietness in his body, neither shall he reserve of that which he desired.
20:21  There shall none of his meat be left: therefore none shall hope for his goods.
20:22  When he shall be filled with his abundance, he shall be in pain, and the hand of all the wicked shall assail him.
20:23  He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall send upon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rain upon him, even upon his meat.
20:24  He shall flee from the iron weapons, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
20:25  The arrow is drawn out, and cometh forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so fear cometh upon him.
20:26  All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blown shall devour him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle shall be destroyed.
20:27  The heaven shall declare his wickedness, and the earth shall rise up against him.
20:28  The increase of his house shall go away: it shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
20:29  This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage that he shall have of God, for his words.