Thematic Bible
Job 20:1 (show verse)
ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE SPEAKS:
Job 20:2 (show verse)
My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer for I am greatly disturbed.
Job 20:3 (show verse)
I hear a rebuke that dishonors me. Therefore my understanding inspires me to reply.
Job 20:4 (show verse)
Do you not know from of old, ever since man was placed on the earth?
Job 20:5 (show verse)
The success of the wicked is brief and the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
Job 20:6 (show verse)
Though his pride reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,
Job 20:7 (show verse)
he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say: Where is he?
Job 20:8 (show verse)
He flies away like a dream banished like a vision of the night. He cannot be found!
Job 20:9 (show verse)
The eye that saw him will not see him again. His place (home) will look on him no more.
Job 20:10 (show verse)
His children must make amends to the poor. He must give back his wealth.
Job 20:11 (show verse)
The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.
Job 20:12 (show verse)
Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,
Job 20:13 (show verse)
though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
Job 20:14 (show verse)
yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.
Job 20:15 (show verse)
He will spit out the riches he swallowed. God will make his stomach vomit them up.
Job 20:16 (show verse)
He will suck the poison of serpents. The fangs of an adder (cobra) will kill him.
Job 20:17 (show verse)
He will not look upon the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
Job 20:18 (show verse)
What he toiled for he must give back uneaten. He will not enjoy the profit from his trading.
Job 20:19 (show verse)
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor and left them destitute. He has violently seized houses he did not build.
Job 20:20 (show verse)
He will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.
Job 20:21 (show verse)
There is nothing left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure.
Job 20:22 (show verse)
Distress will overtake him in the midst of his plenty. The full force of misery will come upon him.
Job 20:23 (show verse)
With his belly full, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows upon him.
Job 20:24 (show verse)
Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.
Job 20:25 (show verse)
He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him.
Job 20:26 (show verse)
Total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
Job 20:27 (show verse)
The heavens will expose his guilt. The earth will rise up against him!
Job 20:28 (show verse)
A flood will carry off his house. Rushing waters will wash away his possessions on the day of God's wrath.
Job 20:29 (show verse)
This is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God.