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20:1  Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and said:
20:2  “Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
20:3  I have heard the rebuke of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
20:4  Knowest thou not this of old, 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 mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,
20:7  yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; they that have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’
20:8  He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
20:9  The eye also which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.
20:10  His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
20:11  His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
20:12  “Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
20:13  though he spare it and forsake it not, but keep it still within his mouth,
20:14  yet his meat in his stomach is turned; it is the gall of asps within him.
20:15  He hath swallowed down riches, and 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  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.
20:19  Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor, because he hath violently taken away a house which he built not,
20:20  surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly; he shall not save of that which he desired.
20:21  There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
20:22  In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of 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 while he is eating.
20:24  He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
20:25  It is drawn and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall; terrors are upon him.
20:26  All darkness shall be hid in his secret places; a fire not blown upon shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
20:27  The heaven shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
20:28  The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of His wrath.
20:29  “This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.”