Job 20
New International Version - Job 20 << | >> 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142 20:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: 20:2 'My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed. 20:3 I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply. 20:4 'Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since man was placed on the earth, 20:5 that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment. 20:6 Though his pride reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds, 20:7 he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?' 20:8 Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found, banished like a vision of the night. 20:9 The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more. 20:10 His children must make amends to the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth. 20:11 The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust. 20:12 'Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue, 20:13 though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth, 20:14 yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him. 20:15 He will spit out the riches he swallowed; God will make his stomach vomit them up. 20:16 He will suck the poison of serpents; the fangs of an adder will kill him. 20:17 He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream. 20:18 What he toiled for he must give back uneaten; he will not enjoy the profit from his trading. 20:19 For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute; he has seized houses he did not build. 20:20 'Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure. 20:21 Nothing is left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure. 20:22 In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him; the full force of misery will come upon him. 20:23 When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows upon him. 20:24 Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him. 20:25 He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him; 20:26 total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent. 20:27 The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up against him. 20:28 A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath. 20:29 Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God.'