Thematic Bible
Job 20:1 (show verse)
And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
Job 20:2 (show verse)
Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.
Job 20:3 (show verse)
I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and my spirit answereth me by mine understanding.
Job 20:4 (show verse)
Knowest thou not this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,
Job 20:5 (show verse)
The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?
Job 20:6 (show verse)
Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,
Job 20:7 (show verse)
Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Job 20:8 (show verse)
He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.
Job 20:9 (show verse)
The eye which saw him shall see him not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.
Job 20:10 (show verse)
His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.
Job 20:11 (show verse)
His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job 20:12 (show verse)
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue,
Job 20:13 (show verse)
Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,
Job 20:14 (show verse)
His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.
Job 20:15 (show verse)
He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Job 20:16 (show verse)
He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.
Job 20:17 (show verse)
He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.
Job 20:18 (show verse)
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice therein.
Job 20:19 (show verse)
For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.
Job 20:20 (show verse)
Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.
Job 20:21 (show verse)
Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
Job 20:22 (show verse)
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.
Job 20:23 (show verse)
It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.
Job 20:24 (show verse)
If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.
Job 20:25 (show verse)
He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
Job 20:26 (show verse)
All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.
Job 20:27 (show verse)
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
Job 20:28 (show verse)
The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger.
Job 20:29 (show verse)
This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.