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Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, (20:1)

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make haste (20:2)

I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer (20:3)

Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed upon earth, (20:4)

That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment? (20:5)

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; (20:6)

[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he? (20:7)

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night (20:8)

The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any more behold him (20:9)

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods (20:10)

His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust (20:11)

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue; (20:12)

[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: (20:13)

[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him (20:14)

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly (20:15)

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him (20:16)

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter (20:17)

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] (20:18)

Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; (20:19)

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired (20:20)

There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods (20:21)

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him (20:22)

[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 (20:23)

He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of steel shall strike him through (20:24)

It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him (20:25)

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 (20:26)

The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him (20:27)

The increase of his house shall depart, [and his goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath (20:28)

This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God (20:29)

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