King James VersionJob20

Job

1 Then an­swered Zophar the Naa­math­ite, and said, 2 There­fore do my thoughts cause me to an­swer, and for this I make haste. 3 I have heard the check of my re­proach, and the spir­it of my un­der­stand­ing causeth me to an­swer. 4 Know­est thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, 5 That the tri­umph­ing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hyp­ocrite but for a mo­ment? 6 Though his ex­cel­len­cy mount up to the heav­ens, and his head reach unto the clouds; 7 Yet he shall per­ish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vi­sion of the night. 9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; nei­ther shall his place any more be­hold him. 10 His chil­dren shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall re­store their goods. 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. 12 Though wicked­ness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it un­der his tongue; 13 Though he spare it, and for­sake it not; but keep it still with­in his mouth: 14 Yet his meat in his bow­els is turned, it is the gall of asps with­in him. 15 He hath swal­lowed down rich­es, and he shall vom­it them up again: God shall cast them out of his bel­ly. 16 He shall suck the poi­son of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. 17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of hon­ey and but­ter. 18 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 therein. 19 Be­cause he hath op­pressed and hath for­sak­en the poor; because he hath vi­o­lent­ly tak­en away an house which he build­ed not; 20 Sure­ly he shall not feel quiet­ness in his bel­ly, he shall not save of that which he de­sired. 21 There shall none of his meat be left; there­fore shall no man look for his goods. 22 In the ful­ness of his suf­fi­cien­cy he shall be in straits: ev­ery hand of the wicked shall come upon him. 23 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. 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. 25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glit­ter­ing sword cometh out of his gall: ter­rors are upon him. 26 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. 27 The heav­en shall re­veal his in­iq­ui­ty; and the earth shall rise up against him. 28 The in­crease of his house shall de­part, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. 29 This is the por­tion of a wicked man from God, and the her­itage ap­point­ed unto him by God.

King James VersionJob20