Job 20:4-29 - A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long
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from the time man was placed on earth,
and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?
and his head touches the clouds,
Those who know
he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
and his household will no longer see him.
for his own hands must give back his wealth.
but will lie down with him in the grave.
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and he conceals it under his tongue,
but keeps it in his mouth,
into cobras’ venom inside him.
God will force it from his stomach.
a viper’s fangs
the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
he doesn’t enjoy the profits from his trading.
he seized a house he did not build.
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he does not let anything he desires escape.
therefore, his prosperity will not last.
the full weight of misery
God will send His burning anger against him,
raining
an arrow from a bronze bow will pierce him.
the flashing tip out of his liver.
Terrors come over him.
A fire unfanned by human hands will consume
it will feed on what is left in his tent.
and the earth will rise up against him.
flowing away on the day of God’s anger.
the inheritance God ordained for him.