Job 20

¹Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

²Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.

³I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.

⁴Knowest thou not this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,

⁵That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?

⁶Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds;

⁷Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?

⁸He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

⁹The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.

¹⁰His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his hands shall give back his wealth.

¹¹His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.

¹²Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,

¹³Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;

¹⁴Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.

¹⁵He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.