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Job 20
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
“Therefore my thoughts answer me,
“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.
I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame.
I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
Don’t you know this from old time,
Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,
that the triumphing of the wicked is short,
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
Though his height mount up to the heavens,
Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
yet he will perish forever like his own dung.
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found.
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
The eye which saw him will see him no more,
The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
His children will seek the favour of the poor.
His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
His bones are full of his youth,
The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth,
Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,
though he spare it, and will not let it go,
though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
yet his food in his bowels is turned.
yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again.
He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
He will suck cobra venom.
He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
He will not look at the rivers,
He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
He will restore that for which he laboured, and will not swallow it down.
He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor.
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
“Because he knew no quietness within him,
Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.
There was nothing left that he didn’t devour,
Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.
In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him.
In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.
When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him.
When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.
He will flee from the iron weapon.
Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.
He draws it out, and it comes out of his body.
It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver (note: Literally from his gall). Terrors come over him.
All darkness is laid up for his treasures.
Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
The heavens will reveal his iniquity.
The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
The increase of his house will depart.
The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.
This is the portion of a wicked man from God,
This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”