Thematic Bible

Job 20:1

And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

Job 20:2

Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.

Job 20:3

I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and my spirit answereth me by mine understanding.

Job 20:4

Knowest thou not this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,

Job 20:5

The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?

Job 20:6

Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,

Job 20:7

Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Job 20:8

He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.

Job 20:9

The eye which saw him shall see him not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.

Job 20:10

His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.

Job 20:11

His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

Job 20:12

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue,

Job 20:13

Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,

Job 20:14

His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.

Job 20:15

He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

Job 20:16

He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.

Job 20:17

He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.

Job 20:18

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

For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.

Job 20:20

Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.

Job 20:21

Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Job 20:22

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.

Job 20:23

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

If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.

Job 20:25

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

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

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

Job 20:28

The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger.

Job 20:29

This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.