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20:1  Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:
20:2  ‘Pay attention! My thoughts urge me to answer, because of the agitation within me.
20:3  I hear censure that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.
20:4  Do you not know this from of old, ever since mortals were placed on earth,
20:5  that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?
20:6  Even though they mount up high as the heavens, and their head reaches to the clouds,
20:7  they will perish for ever like their own dung; those who have seen them will say, “Where are they?”
20:8  They will fly away like a dream, and not be found; they will be chased away like a vision of the night.
20:9  The eye that saw them will see them no more, nor will their place behold them any longer.
20:10  Their children will seek the favour of the poor, and their hands will give back their wealth.
20:11  Their bodies, once full of youth, will lie down in the dust with them.
20:12  ‘Though wickedness is sweet in their mouth, though they hide it under their tongues,
20:13  though they are loath to let it go, and hold it in their mouths,
20:14  yet their food is turned in their stomachs; it is the venom of asps within them.
20:15  They swallow down riches and vomit them up again; God casts them out of their bellies.
20:16  They will suck the poison of asps; the tongue of a viper will kill them.
20:17  They will not look on the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.
20:18  They will give back the fruit of their toil, and will not swallow it down; from the profit of their trading they will get no enjoyment.
20:19  For they have crushed and abandoned the poor, they have seized a house that they did not build.
20:20  ‘They knew no quiet in their bellies; in their greed they let nothing escape.
20:21  There was nothing left after they had eaten; therefore their prosperity will not endure.
20:22  In full sufficiency they will be in distress; all the force of misery will come upon them.
20:23  To fill their belly to the full God will send his fierce anger into them, and rain it upon them as their food.
20:24  They will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike them through.
20:25  It is drawn forth and comes out of their body, and the glittering point comes out of their gall; terrors come upon them.
20:26  Utter darkness is laid up for their treasures; a fire fanned by no one will devour them; what is left in their tent will be consumed.
20:27  The heavens will reveal their iniquity, and the earth will rise up against them.
20:28  The possessions of their house will be carried away, dragged off on the day of God’s wrath.
20:29  This is the portion of the wicked from God, the heritage decreed for them by God.’