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Zophar on the Swift Punishment of the Wicked

Job 20:1-29

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Chapter 20
1 Then he answered Zophar the Naamathite and said. 2 Therefore my thoughts cause me to respond, because of the haste within me. 3 I have heard the discipline of my disgrace, and the spirit of my understanding causes me pain. 4 Do you know this from eternity, from the time when Adam was placed on earth? 5 For the ringing cry of the wicked is from close, and the joy of the godless hypocrite is only for a moment. 6 If his height ascends to the heavens and his head reaches the clouds. 7 He will perish forever like his dung; those who see him will say, "Where is he?" 8 He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him; he will flee like a vision of the night. 9 An eye that saw him will not see him again, and it will no longer behold him at his place. 10 His sons will find favor with the needy, and his hands will return his iniquity/wealth. 11 His bones are filled with his youthfulnesses, and they will lie down with dust. 12 Though he makes evil sweet in his mouth, he hides it under his tongue. 13 He spares it and does not abandon it, but withholds it in the midst of his palate. 14 His bread turns in his bowels to the bitterness of serpents within him. 15 He swallowed wealth, and he will vomit it up from his belly; God will cast it out. 16 He will suck the head of serpents; the tongue of cockatrices will kill him. 17 He will not see the channels of the rivers, the streams of honey and butter. 18 He repays toil and does not swallow it; like an army his exchange, and he does not enjoy it. 19 For he crushed the poor forsaken house—he robbed it and did not build it. 20 For he did not know it in his belly; in his desirable things he will not escape. 21 There is no survivor from his eating; on account of this his good will not endure. 22 In the filling of his abundance it will press him—every hand of toil will come upon him. 23 He will be filled to fill his belly. He will send into him the heat of his anger, and he will rain it upon him in his heat. 24 He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze bow will pierce him. 25 He drew it out, and it came out from his belly. Lightning from his gall-bladder will go upon him—terrors. 26 All darkness is hidden in his treasuries. A fire not blown will devour him; it will wither the survivor in his tent. 27 The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him. 28 The yield of his house will flow away; torrents will flow on the day of his anger. 29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his word from El.