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Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, |
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| 20:2 |
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. |
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| 20:3 |
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. |
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| 20:4 |
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, |
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| 20:5 |
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? |
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| 20:6 |
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; |
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| 20:7 |
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? |
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| 20:8 |
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. |
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| 20:9 |
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. |
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| 20:10 |
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. |
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| 20:11 |
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. |
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| 20:12 |
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; |
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| 20:13 |
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: |
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| 20:14 |
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. |
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| 20:15 |
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. |
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| 20:16 |
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. |
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| 20:17 |
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. |
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| 20:18 |
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein. |
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| 20:19 |
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; |
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| 20:20 |
Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. |
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| 20:21 |
There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. |
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| 20:22 |
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. |
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| 20:23 |
When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. |
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| 20:24 |
He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. |
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| 20:25 |
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. |
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| 20:26 |
All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. |
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| 20:27 |
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. |
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| 20:28 |
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. |
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| 20:29 |
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. |
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