Job 20

¹Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,

²Doubtlesse my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.

³I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.

⁴Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,

⁵That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?

⁶Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,

⁷Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?

⁸He shall flee away as a dreame, and they shall not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,

⁹So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more.

¹⁰His children shall flatter the poore, and his hands shall restore his substance.

¹¹His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shall lie downe with him in the dust.

¹²When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,

¹³And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,

¹⁴Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.

¹⁵He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.