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OEB JOB Chapter 20

JOB 20 ©

20Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

2Nay, not so do my thoughts make answer;

And therefore my heart is uproused.

3Must I hear thine insulting reproof,

While mere breath without sense is thine answer?

4Knowest thou not this from of old,

From the time there were men on the earth,

5That the song of the wicked is short,

And the hypocrite’s joy but a moment?

6Though his majesty mount on the heavens,

And his head reach unto the clouds,

7He shall utterly perish like dung;

Those that knew him shall ask, "Where is he?"

8Like a dream he shall fly beyond finding,

Dispelled like a vision of night.

9No more shall the eye see that saw him;

His place shall behold him no more.

10His sons shall be crushed by privation;

His wealth shall his children restore.

11The vigour of youth filled his bones,

But within him it shall lie in the dust.

12Though evil be sweet in his mouth,

As he keeps it hid under his tongue;

13Though he spare it and let it not go,

But still holdeth it back in his mouth;

14Yet his food in his stomach is turned;

It is poison of asps within him.

15The wealth that he swallowed he vomits;

God easteth it forth from his belly.

16The poison of asps he has sucked,

And the tongue of the viper shall slay him.

17No rivers of oil shall he see,

No torrents of honey and butter.

18His increasing gain brings him no gladness;

His traffickling yields him no joy;

19For he crushed down the gains of the poor,

And he plundered the house that he built not.

20His treasures have brought him no peace.

And his precious things cannot deliver.

21And since none has escaped his devouring,

His own fortune shall not endure.

22Brought to straits in the fullness of plenty,

The fell force of trouble assails him.

23He shall let loose His hot wrath against him,

And terrors shall rain down upon him.

24As he flees from the weapon of iron,

And bronze bow pierces him through.

25The missle comes out at his back,

And the glittering point from his gall.

Terrors keep coming upon him;

26Deep darkness is stored up for him.

A mysterious fire shall devour him,

And ravage those left in his tent.

27The heavens shall reveal his guilt,

And the earth shalll rise up against him.

28His house shall be swept by destruction,

Accursed in the day of His wrath.

29Such the wicked man’s portion from God,

God’s heritage unto the rebel.

Job’s Fierce Indicment of the Existing Order

JOB 20 ©

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