Job 20

1 And then Zophar the Naamathite answered, and said,⋮

2 Therefore my thoughts diverse come one after another; and the mind is ravished into diverse things.⋮

3 I shall hear the teaching, by which thou reprovest me; and the spirit of mine understanding shall answer me.⋮

4 I know this from the beginning, since man was set on the earth,⋮

5 that the praising of wicked men is short, and the joy of an hypocrite is at the likeness of a point soon passing.⋮

6 Though his pride go up into heaven, and his head toucheth the clouds,⋮

7 he shall be lost in the end, as a dunghill; and, they that have seen him, shall say, Where is he?⋮

8 As a dream flying away, or soon forgotten, he shall not be found; he shall pass as the sight of nights.⋮

9 The eye that saw him shall not see him again; and his place shall no more behold him.⋮

10 His sons shall be all-broken with neediness; and his hands shall yield to him his sorrow.⋮

11 His bones shall be full-filled with the vices of his young waxing age; and they shall sleep with him in dust.⋮

12 For when evil was sweet in his mouth, he hid it under his tongue.⋮

13 He shall spare it, and shall not forsake it; and he shall hide it in his throat.⋮

14 His bread in his womb shall be turned into the gall of snakes within him.⋮

15 He shall vomit, or cast, out the riches which he hath devoured; and God shall draw those riches out of his womb.⋮

16 He shall suck the gall of snakes; and the tongue of an adder shall slay him.⋮

17 See he not the streams of the flood, of the strand or stream of honey, and of butter.⋮

18 He shall suffer pains for all things which he hath done, nevertheless he shall not be wasted by those pains, but ever endure; and after the multitude of his findings, so shall he suffer.⋮

19 For he brake, and made naked the house of the poor man; he ravished it, and builded it not.⋮

20 And his womb was not yet ful-filled; and when he hath that, that he coveted, he may not hold it in possession.⋮

21 There be left nothing of his meat; and therefore nothing shall dwell of his goods.⋮

22 When he is full-filled with riches, yet he shall be made strait in covet-ousness; he shall burn in it, and all sorrow shall fall in upon him.⋮

23 I would, that his womb be filled, that he send out into him the wrath of his strong vengeance, and rain his battle upon him.⋮

24 He shall flee iron armours or arms, and he shall fall into a brazen bow.⋮

25 Which is led, or taken out of his sheath, or case, and this bow going out, and shining as lightning, shall smite him in bitterness; horrible fears shall go, and come upon him.⋮

26 All darknesses be hid in his privates or private things; fire, which is not tended, shall devour him; he shall be tormented and left in his tabernacle.⋮

27 Heavens shall show his wicked-ness; and earth shall rise up alto-gether against him.⋮

28 The seed, or generation, of his house shall be open; it shall be drawn down in the day of the strong venge-ance of the Lord.⋮

29 This is the part of a wicked man, which is given to him of God, and the heritage of his words is also of the Lord.⋮