Job 20

¹And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

²Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.

³I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.

⁴Knowest thou [not] this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,

⁵The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?

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

⁷Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

⁸He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.

⁹The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.

¹⁰His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.

¹¹His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

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

¹³[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,

¹⁴His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.

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