1890 Darby's Translation of the Holy Scriptures (DBY)
Job 20
Zophar sheweth the state and portion of the wicked.

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And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

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Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.

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I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.

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Knowest thou [not] this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,

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The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?

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Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,

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Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

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He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.

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The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.

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His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.

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His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

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Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth [and] he hide it under his tongue,

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[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,

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His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.

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He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: *God shall cast them out of his belly.

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He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.

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He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.

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That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice [therein].

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For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.

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Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.

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Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

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In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.

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It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.

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If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.

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He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

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All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.

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The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

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The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger.

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This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by *God.