Thematic Bible
Job 20:1 (show verse)
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:
Job 20:2 (show verse)
"This is why my troubled thoughts bring me back -- because of my feelings within me.
Job 20:3 (show verse)
When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.
Job 20:4 (show verse)
"Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,
Job 20:5 (show verse)
that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
Job 20:6 (show verse)
Even though his stature reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,
Job 20:7 (show verse)
he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say, 'Where is he?'
Job 20:8 (show verse)
Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.
Job 20:9 (show verse)
People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.
Job 20:10 (show verse)
His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.
Job 20:11 (show verse)
His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.
Job 20:12 (show verse)
"If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,
Job 20:13 (show verse)
if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,
Job 20:14 (show verse)
his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.
Job 20:15 (show verse)
The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.
Job 20:16 (show verse)
He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.
Job 20:17 (show verse)
He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.
Job 20:18 (show verse)
He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.
Job 20:19 (show verse)
For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.
Job 20:20 (show verse)
For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.
Job 20:21 (show verse)
"Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.
Job 20:22 (show verse)
In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. the full force of misery will come upon him.
Job 20:23 (show verse)
"While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.
Job 20:24 (show verse)
If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.
Job 20:25 (show verse)
When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.
Job 20:26 (show verse)
Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
Job 20:27 (show verse)
The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.
Job 20:28 (show verse)
A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath.
Job 20:29 (show verse)
Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God."