King James Version · full chapter
Job 20
29 verses · King James Version
- 1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,Compare translations of Job 20:1
- 2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for I make haste.Compare translations of Job 20:2
- 3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.Compare translations of Job 20:3
- 4Knowest thou this of old, since man was placed upon earth,Compare translations of Job 20:4
- 5That the triumphing of the wicked short, and the joy of the hypocrite for a moment?Compare translations of Job 20:5
- 6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;Compare translations of Job 20:6
- 7he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where he?Compare translations of Job 20:7
- 8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.Compare translations of Job 20:8
- 9The eye also saw him shall no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.Compare translations of Job 20:9
- 10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.Compare translations of Job 20:10
- 11His bones are full of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.Compare translations of Job 20:11
- 12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, he hide it under his tongue;Compare translations of Job 20:12
- 13he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:Compare translations of Job 20:13
- 14his meat in his bowels is turned, the gall of asps within him.Compare translations of Job 20:14
- 15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.Compare translations of Job 20:15
- 16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.Compare translations of Job 20:16
- 17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.Compare translations of Job 20:17
- 18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow down: according to substance the restitution and he shall not rejoiceCompare translations of Job 20:18
- 19Because he hath oppressed hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;Compare translations of Job 20:19
- 20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.Compare translations of Job 20:20
- 21There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.Compare translations of Job 20:21
- 22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.Compare translations of Job 20:22
- 23he is about to fill his belly, shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain upon him while he is eating.Compare translations of Job 20:23
- 24He shall flee from the iron weapon, the bow of steel shall strike him through.Compare translations of Job 20:24
- 25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors upon him.Compare translations of Job 20:25
- 26All darkness hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.Compare translations of Job 20:26
- 27The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.Compare translations of Job 20:27
- 28The increase of his house shall depart, shall flow away in the day of his wrath.Compare translations of Job 20:28
- 29This the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.Compare translations of Job 20:29