10.
Zophar's anger and teaching toward Job
20:1-29
Job 20
:1
20:1
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
Job 20
:2
20:2
Because of this, my disquieting thoughts answer me;
And hence my haste is in me.
Job 20
:3
20:3
I hear the reproof that humiliates me,
And the
aspirit of my understanding answers me.
Job 20
:4
20:4
Do you not know this from of old,
Since man was set upon the earth,
Job 20
:5
20:5
That the joyous shouting of the wicked is short,
And the rejoicing of the profane is but for a moment?
Job 20
:6
20:6
Though his arrogance goes up to
aheaven,
And his head touches the clouds;
Job 20
:7
20:7
Like his own dung he perishes forever;
Those who have seen him say, Where is he?
Job 20
:8
20:8
Like a dream he flies away and is not found;
Indeed he is chased away like a vision of the night.
Job 20
:9
20:9
The eye looks on him then
sees him no more,
Nor does his place observe him anymore.
Job 20
:10
20:10
His children seek the favor of the poor,
And his hands return his wealth.
Job 20
:11
20:11
His bones are full of youthful vigor,
Yet
1it lies down with him in the
adust.
Job 20
:12
20:12
Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth,
Though he hides it under his tongue,
Job 20
:13
20:13
Though he favors it and will not forsake it,
But holds it in his mouth;
Job 20
:14
20:14
His food in his bowels is changed;
It is the
avenom of asps within him.
Job 20
:15
20:15
He swallows down riches and vomits them up;
God casts them forth from his stomach.
Job 20
:16
20:16
He sucks the poison of asps;
The tongue of the viper slays him.
Job 20
:17
20:17
He will not look on the rivers,
The streams flowing with honey and butter.
Job 20
:18
20:18
He will return what he toiled for and will not swallow
it down;
And he will not rejoice according to the wealth of his trading.
Job 20
:19
20:19
For he has oppressed
and abandoned the poor;
He has violently seized a house that he did not build.
Job 20
:20
20:20
Because he knew no respite in his craving,
Of that which he desired he will save nothing.
Job 20
:21
20:21
There will be nothing left of what he has devoured;
Thus his prosperity will not endure.
Job 20
:22
20:22
In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be distressed;
The hand of everyone in trouble will come against him.
Job 20
:23
20:23
In order to fill his belly,
1God will send the burning fierceness of His wrath on him
And will rain
it upon him as his food.
Job 20
:24
20:24
He will flee from the iron weapon,
But the bronze bow will strike him through.
Job 20
:25
20:25
He draws
the arrow out, and it comes out of his body;
Indeed the glittering point goes forth from his gall.
Terrors
come upon him.
Job 20
:26
20:26
Total darkness is laid up as his treasures;
A fire not fanned
by man will devour him;
It will feed on what is left in his tent.
Job 20
:27
20:27
The heavens will reveal his iniquity,
And the earth will rise up against him.
Job 20
:28
20:28
The increase of his house will depart
As things swept away in the
aday of His wrath.
Job 20
:29
20:29
This is the wicked man’s portion from God
And the inheritance decreed to him by God.
