Thematic Bible
Job 20:1 (show verse)
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Job 20:2 (show verse)
"For the same cause do my thoughts compel me to answer. And why? My mind is tossed here and there.
Job 20:3 (show verse)
I have sufficiently heard thy checking and reproof; therefore am I purposed to make answer after mine understanding.
Job 20:4 (show verse)
Knowest thou not this, namely: that from the beginning - ever since the creation of man upon earth -
Job 20:5 (show verse)
the praise of the ungodly hath been short, and that the joy of the hypocrites continued but the twinkling of an eye?
Job 20:6 (show verse)
Though he be magnified up to the heaven, so that his head reacheth into the clouds:
Job 20:7 (show verse)
yet he perisheth at the last, like dung. Insomuch that they which have seen him, say, 'Where is he?'
Job 20:8 (show verse)
He vanisheth as a dream, so that he can no more be found, and passeth away as a vision in the night.
Job 20:9 (show verse)
So that the eye which saw him before, getteth now no sight of him, and his place knoweth him no more.
Job 20:10 (show verse)
"His children shall be fain to agree with the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
Job 20:11 (show verse)
From his youth his bones are full of vice; but now shall it lie down with him in the earth.
Job 20:12 (show verse)
When wickedness was sweet in his mouth, he hid it under his tongue.
Job 20:13 (show verse)
That he favoured, that would he not forsake; but kept it close in his throat.
Job 20:14 (show verse)
The bread that he did eat is turned to the poison of serpents, within his body.
Job 20:15 (show verse)
The riches that he devoured, shall he vomit out again; for God shall draw them out of his belly.
Job 20:16 (show verse)
He shall suck the serpent's gall, and the adder's tongue shall slay him:
Job 20:17 (show verse)
so that he shall no more see the rivers, and brooks of honey and butter.
Job 20:18 (show verse)
But he shall labour, and yet have nothing to eat. Great travail shall he make for riches, but he shall not enjoy them.
Job 20:19 (show verse)
And why? He hath oppressed the poor, and not helped them: houses hath he spoiled, and not builded them.
Job 20:20 (show verse)
His belly could never be filled; therefore shall he perish in his covetousness.
Job 20:21 (show verse)
He devoured so greedily that he left nothing behind; therefore his goods shall not prosper.
Job 20:22 (show verse)
Though he had plenteousness of everything, yet was he poor, and therefore he is but a wretch on every side.
Job 20:23 (show verse)
"For though the wicked have never so much to fill his belly, yet God shall send his wrath upon him, and cause his indignation to rain over him:
Job 20:24 (show verse)
so that if he flee the iron weapons, he shall be shot with the steel bow.
Job 20:25 (show verse)
The arrow shall be taken forth, and go out at his back; and a glistering sword through the gall of him. Fear shall come upon him.
Job 20:26 (show verse)
There shall no darkness be able to hide him. An unkindled fire shall consume him; and look, what remaineth in his house, it shall be destroyed.
Job 20:27 (show verse)
The heaven shall declare his wickedness, and the earth shall take part against him.
Job 20:28 (show verse)
The substance that he hath in his house, shall be taken away and perish, in the day of the LORD's wrath.
Job 20:29 (show verse)
This is the portion that the wicked shall have of God, and the heritage that he may look for of the LORD."