Thematic Bible
Job 20:1 (show verse)
Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said,
Job 20:2 (show verse)
My thoughts certainly cause me to answer, and therefore, I make haste.
Job 20:3 (show verse)
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my intelligence causes me to answer.
Job 20:4 (show verse)
Dost thou not know this that always was, since man was placed upon earth,
Job 20:5 (show verse)
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Job 20:6 (show verse)
Though his excellency mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches unto the clouds,
Job 20:7 (show verse)
yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him shall say, What is become of him?
Job 20:8 (show verse)
He shall fly away as a dream and shall not be found: yea, he shall flee away as a vision of the night.
Job 20:9 (show verse)
The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place behold him any more.
Job 20:10 (show verse)
His poor sons shall go forth begging, and their hands shall restore that which he stole.
Job 20:11 (show verse)
His bones are full of the sins of his youth, which shall be buried with him in the dust.
Job 20:12 (show verse)
If wickedness was sweet in his mouth, if he hid it under his tongue,
Job 20:13 (show verse)
if it seemed good unto him, and he did not forsake it, but savored it within his mouth,
Job 20:14 (show verse)
his food shall be changed in his bowels, it shall be the gall of asps within him.
Job 20:15 (show verse)
He has 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 slay him.
Job 20:17 (show verse)
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
Job 20:18 (show verse)
He shall restore the work that was not his; according to the substance that he took; neither shall he devour, nor rejoice.
Job 20:19 (show verse)
Because he oppressed and forsook the poor; because he has violently taken away houses which he did not build,
Job 20:20 (show verse)
therefore, he shall not feel quietness in his belly; he shall not escape with that which he desired.
Job 20:21 (show verse)
Nothing is left that he did not eat; therefore, his goods shall not last.
Job 20:22 (show verse)
In the fullness of his sufficiency, he shall come into anguish; the hands of all the wicked shall come upon him.
Job 20:23 (show verse)
When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him and shall rain it upon him and upon his food.
Job 20:24 (show verse)
He shall flee from the weapons of iron, and the bow of bronze shall strike him through.
Job 20:25 (show verse)
He shall draw forth an arrow from his quiver, and like lightning it shall strike through his gall; terrors shall come upon him.
Job 20:26 (show verse)
All darkness is kept for his secrets; a fire not blown shall consume him; his successor shall be broken 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 be taken captive; they shall be scattered in the day of his wrath.
Job 20:29 (show verse)
This is the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage that God appoints unto him by his word.