Job20:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:
Job20:2 "Pay attention! My thoughts urge me to answer, because of the agitation within me.
Job20:3 I hear censure that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.
Job20:4 Do you not know this from of old, ever since mortals were placed on earth,
Job20:5 that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?
Job20:6 Even though they mount up high as the heavens, and their head reaches to the clouds,
Job20:7 they will perish forever like their own dung; those who have seen them will say, 'Where are they?'
Job20:8 They will fly away like a dream, and not be found; they will be chased away like a vision of the night.
Job20:9 The eye that saw them will see them no more, nor will their place behold them any longer.
Job20:10 Their children will seek the favor of the poor, and their hands will give back their wealth.
Job20:11 Their bodies, once full of youth, will lie down in the dust with them.
Job20:12 "Though wickedness is sweet in their mouth, though they hide it under their tongues,
Job20:13 though they are loath to let it go, and hold it in their mouths,
Job20:14 yet their food is turned in their stomachs; it is the venom of asps within them.
Job20:15 They swallow down riches and vomit them up again; God casts them out of their bellies.
Job20:16 They will suck the poison of asps; the tongue of a viper will kill them.
Job20:17 They will not look on the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.
Job20:18 They will give back the fruit of their toil, and will not swallow it down; from the profit of their trading they will get no enjoyment.
Job20:19 For they have crushed and abandoned the poor, they have seized a house that they did not build.
Job20:20 "They knew no quiet in their bellies; in their greed they let nothing escape.
Job20:21 There was nothing left after they had eaten; therefore their prosperity will not endure.
Job20:22 In full sufficiency they will be in distress; all the force of misery will come upon them.
Job20:23 To fill their belly to the full God will send his fierce anger into them, and rain it upon them as their food.
Job20:24 They will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike them through.
Job20:25 It is drawn forth and comes out of their body, and the glittering point comes out of their gall; terrors come upon them.
Job20:26 Utter darkness is laid up for their treasures; a fire fanned by no one will devour them; what is left in their tent will be consumed.
Job20:27 The heavens will reveal their iniquity, and the earth will rise up against them.
Job20:28 The possessions of their house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God's wrath.
Job20:29 This is the portion of the wicked from God, the heritage decreed for them by God."