Job 20 (NET)

Job 20:1¹Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:2²“This is why my troubled thoughts bring me back — because of my feelings within me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:3³When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:4⁴“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:5⁵that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:6⁶Even though his stature reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:7⁷he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say, ‘Where is he?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:8⁸Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:9⁹People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:10¹⁰His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:11¹¹His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:12¹²“If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:13¹³if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:14¹⁴his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:15¹⁵The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:16¹⁶He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:17¹⁷He will not look on the streams, the rivers that are the torrents of honey and butter.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:18¹⁸He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:19¹⁹For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:20²⁰For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:21²¹“Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:22²²In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:23²³“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:24²⁴If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:25²⁵When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:26²⁶Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire that has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:27²⁷The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:28²⁸A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 20:29²⁹Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s