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Job 20 📜 📕 ↷
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
1 BUT Sophar the Naamathite answering, said:📜💬📚
2 Therefore my diverse cogitations succeed one an other, and my mind is rapt into sundry things.📜💬📚
3 The doctrine, wherewith thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer me.📜💬📚
4 This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,📜💬📚
5 That the praise of the impious is short, and the joy of the hypocrite as it were for a moment:📜💬📚
6 If his pride rise up even to the heaven, and his head touch the clouds:📜💬📚
7 As a dunghill in the end he shall be destroyed, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?📜💬📚
8 As a dream that flyeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision by night:📜💬📚
9 The eye that had seen him, shall not see him, neither shall his place behold him any more.📜💬📚
10 His children shall come to naught with poverty, and his hands shall render him his sorrow.📜💬📚
11 His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, & they shall sleep with him in the dust.📜💬📚
12 For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.📜💬📚
13 He will spare it, & not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.📜💬📚
14 His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him.📜💬📚
15 The riches which he hath devoured, he shall vomit out, & God shall draw them forth out of his belly.📜💬📚
16 He shall suck the head of asps, and the vipers tongue shall kill him.📜💬📚
17 (Let him not see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey, & of butter.)📜💬📚
18 He shall be punished for all things that he did, & yet not be consumed: according to the multitude of his inventions so also shall he suffer.📜💬📚
19 Because breaking in, he hath made the poor naked: he hath violently taken a house, & built it not.📜💬📚
20 Neither is his belly filled: and when he shall have the things he coveted, he can not possess them.📜💬📚
21 There remained not of his meat, & therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:📜💬📚
22 When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and all sorrow shall fall upon him.📜💬📚
23 Would God his belly were filled, that he may send forth the wrath of his fury upon him, and rain his battle upon him.📜💬📚
24 He shall fly weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.📜💬📚
25 The sword plucked out, and coming forth of his scabbard, and glistering in his bitterness: the horrible shall go and come upon him.📜💬📚
26 All darkness is hid in his secrets: fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted left in his tabernacle.📜💬📚
27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise against him.📜💬📚
28 The blossom of his house shall be opened, he shall be plucked down in the day of God's fury.📜💬📚
29 This is the portion of an impious man from God, & the inheritance of his words from our Lord.📜💬📚
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