Job 20 - Meaning, Themes & Application

" Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, "

" Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. "

" I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. "

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

" That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? "

" Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; "

" Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where "

" He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. "

" The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold "

" His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. "

" His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. "

" Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; "

" Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: "

" Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within "

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

" He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay "

" He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. "

" That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice "

" Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded "

" Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. "

" There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. "

" In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come "

" When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. "

" He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. "

" It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors "

" All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. "

" The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up "

" The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. "

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