Job 20:1-29 WEB

[1] Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, [2] “Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me. [3] I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me. [4] Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth, [5] that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment? [6] Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds, [7] yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’ [8] He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night. [9] The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more. [10] His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth. [11] His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust. [12] “Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue, [13] though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth, [14] yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him. [15] He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly. [16] He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him. [17] He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter. [18] He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten. [19] For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up. [20] “Because he knew no quietness within him, he will not save anything of that in which he delights. [21] There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure. [22] In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him. [23] When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating. [24] He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through. [25] He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him. [26] All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent. [27] The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him. [28] The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath. [29] This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”