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| 20:1 |
Then Zophar the Na'amathite answered:
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| 20:2 |
'Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.
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| 20:3 |
I hear censure which insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
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| 20:4 |
Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed upon earth,
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| 20:5 |
that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
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| 20:6 |
Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
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| 20:7 |
he will perish for ever like his own dung;those who have seen him will say, Where is he?'
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| 20:8 |
He will fly away like a dream, and not be found;he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
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| 20:9 |
The eye which saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.
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| 20:10 |
His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.
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| 20:11 |
His bones are full of youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.
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| 20:12 |
'Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,
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| 20:13 |
though he is loath to let it go, and holds it in his mouth,
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| 20:14 |
yet his food is turned in his stomach;it is the gall of asps within him.
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| 20:15 |
He swallows down riches and vomits them up again;God casts them out of his belly.
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| 20:16 |
He will suck the poison of asps;the tongue of a viper will kill him.
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| 20:17 |
Hewill not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.
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| 20:18 |
He will give back the fruit of his toil, and will not swallow it down;from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment.
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| 20:19 |
For he has crushed and abandoned the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.
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| 20:20 |
'Because his greed knew no rest, he will not save anything in which he delights.
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| 20:21 |
There was nothing left after he had eaten;therefore his prosperity will not endure.
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| 20:22 |
In the fulness of his sufficiency he will be in straits;all the force of misery will come upon him.
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| 20:23 |
To fill his belly to the full God will send his fierce anger into him, and rain it upon him as his food.
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| 20:24 |
He will flee from an iron weapon;a bronze arrow will strike him through.
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| 20:25 |
It is drawn forth and comes out of his body, the glittering point comes out of his gall;terrors come upon him.
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| 20:26 |
Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures;a fire not blown upon will devour him;what is left in his tent will be consumed.
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| 20:27 |
The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
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| 20:28 |
The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God's wrath.
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| 20:29 |
This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God.'
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