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Themes in Job 20
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Themes in Job 20

Job 20:1

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

Job 20:2

This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer,
because I am upset!

Job 20:3

I have heard a rebuke that insults me,
and my understanding makes me reply.

Job 20:4

Don’t you know that ever since antiquity,
from the time man was placed on earth,

Job 20:5

the joy of the wicked has been brief
and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?

Job 20:6

Though his arrogance reaches heaven,
and his head touches the clouds,

Job 20:7

he will vanish forever like his own dung.
Those who know him will ask, “Where is he?”

Job 20:8

He will fly away like a dream and never be found;
he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Job 20:9

The eye that saw him will see him no more,
and his household will no longer see him.

Job 20:10

His children will beg from the poor,
for his own hands must give back his wealth.

Job 20:11

His bones may be full of youthful vigor,
but will lie down with him in the grave.

Job 20:12

Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth
and he conceals it under his tongue,

Job 20:13

though he cherishes it and will not let it go
but keeps it in his mouth,

Job 20:14

yet the food in his stomach turns
into cobras’ venom inside him.

Job 20:15

He swallows wealth but must vomit it up;
God will force it from his stomach.

Job 20:16

He will suck the poison of cobras;
a viper’s fangs will kill him.

Job 20:17

He will not enjoy the streams,
the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

Job 20:18

He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it;
he doesn’t enjoy the profits from his trading.

Job 20:19

For he oppressed and abandoned the poor;
he seized a house he did not build.

Job 20:20

Because his appetite is never satisfied,
he does not let anything he desires escape.

Job 20:21

Nothing is left for him to consume;
therefore, his prosperity will not last.

Job 20:22

At the height of his success distress will come to him;
the full weight of misery will crush him.

Job 20:23

When he fills his stomach,
God will send His burning anger against him,
raining it down on him while he is eating.

Job 20:24

If he flees from an iron weapon,
an arrow from a bronze bow will pierce him.

Job 20:25

He pulls it out of his back,
the flashing tip out of his liver.
Terrors come over him.

Job 20:26

Total darkness is reserved for his treasures.
A fire unfanned by human hands will consume him;
it will feed on what is left in his tent.

Job 20:27

The heavens will expose his iniquity,
and the earth will rise up against him.

Job 20:28

The possessions in his house will be removed,
flowing away on the day of God’s anger.

Job 20:29

This is the wicked man’s lot from God,
the inheritance God ordained for him.
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