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Job 20

New Living Translation NLT

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

2 “I must reply because I am greatly disturbed.

3 I’ve had to endure your insults, but now my spirit prompts me to reply.

4 “Don’t you realize that from the beginning of time, ever since people were first placed on the earth,

5 the triumph of the wicked has been short lived and the joy of the godless has been only temporary?

6 Though the pride of the godless reaches to the heavens and their heads touch the clouds,

7 yet they will vanish forever, thrown away like their own dung. Those who knew them will ask, ‘Where are they?’

8 They will fade like a dream and not be found. They will vanish like a vision in the night.

9 Those who once saw them will see them no more. Their families will never see them again.

10 Their children will beg from the poor, for they must give back their stolen riches.

11 Though they are young, their bones will lie in the dust.

12 “They enjoyed the sweet taste of wickedness, letting it melt under their tongue.

13 They savored it, holding it long in their mouths.

14 But suddenly the food in their bellies turns sour, a poisonous venom in their stomach.

15 They will vomit the wealth they swallowed. God won’t let them keep it down.

16 They will suck the poison of cobras. The viper will kill them.

17 They will never again enjoy streams of olive oil or rivers of milk and honey.

18 They will give back everything they worked for. Their wealth will bring them no joy.

19 For they oppressed the poor and left them destitute. They foreclosed on their homes.

20 They were always greedy and never satisfied. Nothing remains of all the things they dreamed about.

21 Nothing is left after they finish gorging themselves. Therefore, their prosperity will not endure.

22 “In the midst of plenty, they will run into trouble and be overcome by misery.

23 May God give them a bellyful of trouble. May God rain down his anger upon them.

24 When they try to escape an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce them.

25 The arrow is pulled from their back, and the arrowhead glistens with blood. The terrors of death are upon them.

26 Their treasures will be thrown into deepest darkness. A wildfire will devour their goods, consuming all they have left.

27 The heavens will reveal their guilt, and the earth will testify against them.

28 A flood will sweep away their house. God’s anger will descend on them in torrents.

29 This is the reward that God gives the wicked. It is the inheritance decreed by God.”

New International Version NIV

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

2 “My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed.

3 I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply.

4 “Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since mankind was placed on the earth,

5 that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

6 Though the pride of the godless person reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,

7 he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

8 Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found, banished like a vision of the night.

9 The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more.

10 His children must make amends to the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.

11 The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.

12 “Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

13 though he cannot bear to let it go and lets it linger in his mouth,

14 yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.

15 He will spit out the riches he swallowed; God will make his stomach vomit them up.

16 He will suck the poison of serpents; the fangs of an adder will kill him.

17 He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

18 What he toiled for he must give back uneaten; he will not enjoy the profit from his trading.

19 For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute; he has seized houses he did not build.

20 “Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.

21 Nothing is left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure.

22 In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him; the full force of misery will come upon him.

23 When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows on him.

24 Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.

25 He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him;

26 total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

27 The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up against him.

28 A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

29 Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God.”