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Job 20
Job 20
English God's Word - GW 1995
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Then Zophar from Naama replied {to Job},
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"My disturbing thoughts make me answer, and because of them I am upset.
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I have heard criticism that makes me ashamed, but a spirit beyond my understanding gives me answers.
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"Don't you know that from ancient times, from the time humans were placed on earth,
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the triumph of the wicked is short-lived, and the joy of the godless person lasts only a moment?
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If his height reaches to the sky and his head touches the clouds,
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he will certainly rot like his own feces. Those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'
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He will fly away like a dream and not be found. He will be chased away like a vision in the night.
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Eyes that saw him will see him no more. His home will not look at him again.
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His children will have to ask the poor for help. His own hands will have to give back his wealth.
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His bones, once full of youthful vigor, will lie down with him in the dust.
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"Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue....
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Though he savors it and won't let go of it and he holds it on the roof of his mouth,
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the food in his belly turns sour. It becomes snake venom in his stomach.
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He vomits up the riches that he swallowed. God forces them out of his stomach.
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The godless person sucks the poison of snakes. A viper's fang kills him.
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He won't be able to drink from the streams or from the rivers of honey and buttermilk.
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He will give back what he earned without enjoying it. He will get no joy from the profits of his business
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because he crushed and abandoned the poor. He has taken by force a house that he didn't build.
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He will never know peace in his heart. He will never allow anything he desires to escape {his grasp}.
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"Nothing is left for him to eat. His prosperity won't last.
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{Even} with all his wealth the full force of misery comes down on him.
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Let that misery fill his belly. {God} throws his burning anger at the godless person and makes his wrath come down on him like rain.
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If that person flees from an iron weapon, a bronze bow will pierce him.
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He pulls it out, and it comes out of his back. The glittering point comes out of his gallbladder. "Terrors come quickly to the godless person:
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Total darkness waits in hiding for his treasure. A fire that no one fans will burn him. Whatever is left in his tent will be devoured.
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Heaven exposes his sin. Earth rises up against him.
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A flood will sweep away his house, a flash flood on the day of his anger.
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This is the reward God gives to the wicked person, the inheritance God has appointed for him."
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