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20:1  Zophar from Naamah said:
20:2  Therefore, my troubled thoughts make me turn back— because of my inner turmoil.
20:3  I hear teaching that insults me, but I am forced to answer based on my own understanding.
20:4  Do you know this from long ago— from when humans were placed on earth—
20:5  that the rejoicing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless, brief?
20:6  Though their height reaches heaven and their heads touch the clouds,
20:7  they will perish forever like their dung; those who saw them will say, “Where are they?”
20:8  They will disappear like a dream, and none will find them, carried away like a nighttime vision.
20:9  The eye that saw them will do so no more; they won’t be seen again at home.
20:10  Their children will repay the poor; their hands will give back their wealth.
20:11  Vigor filled their bones and now sleeps with them in the dust.
20:12  Though wickedness is sweet in their mouths, they hide it under their tongues;
20:13  they like it, won’t let it go; they hold it in their cheeks.
20:14  Food turns their stomachs, becoming a cobra’s poison inside.
20:15  They swallow wealth and vomit it; God dislodges it from their belly.
20:16  They suck cobra’s poison; a viper’s tongue kills them.
20:17  They won’t experience streams, rivers of honey, and brooks of cream.
20:18  They won’t receive the reward for their labor; they won’t enjoy the wealth from their business.
20:19  They crushed and abandoned the poor; stole a house they didn’t build;
20:20  didn’t know contentment in their belly; couldn’t escape with their treasure.
20:21  Nothing remained of their food, so their riches will not endure.
20:22  Even in their plenty, they are hard-pressed; all sorts of trouble come on them.
20:23  Let God fill their belly, unleash his burning anger on them, rain punishing blows on them.
20:24  If they flee an iron weapon, a bronze bow pierces them.
20:25  They pull it out, but it sticks out from their backs; its shaft in their liver brings terror.
20:26  Complete darkness waits for their treasured possessions; fire that no one stoked consumes them; what’s left in their tent is ruined.
20:27  Heaven exposes their guilt; earth opposes them.
20:28  Their household wealth will be carried off by rushing streams on the day of his anger.
20:29  This is a wicked person’s lot from God, their heritage decreed by God.