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Job 20

Good News Translation GNT

1 Job, you upset me.

2 Now I'm impatient to answer.

3 What you have said is an insult, but I know how to reply to you.

4 Surely you know that from ancient times, when we humans were first placed on earth,

5 no wicked people have been happy for long.

6 They may grow great, towering to the sky, so great that their heads reach the clouds,

7 but they will be blown away like dust. Those who used to know them will wonder where they have gone.

8 They will vanish like a dream, like a vision at night, and never be seen again.

9 The wicked will disappear from the place where they used to live;

10 and their children will make good what they stole from the poor.

11 Their bodies used to be young and vigorous, but soon they will turn to dust.

12 Evil tastes so good to them that they keep some in their mouths to enjoy its flavor.

14 But in their stomachs the food turns bitter, as bitter as any poison could be.

15 The wicked vomit up the wealth they stole; God takes it back, even out of their stomachs.

16 What the evil people swallow is like poison; it kills them like the bite of a deadly snake.

17 They will not live to see rivers of olive oil or streams that flow with milk and honey.

18 They will have to give up all they have worked for; they will have no chance to enjoy their wealth,

19 because they oppressed and neglected the poor and seized houses someone else had built.

20 Their greed is never satisfied.

21 When they eat, there is nothing left over, but now their prosperity comes to an end.

22 At the height of their success all the weight of misery will crush them.

23 Let them eat all they want! God will punish them in fury and anger.

24 When they try to escape from an iron sword, a bronze bow will shoot them down.

25 Arrows stick through their bodies; the shiny points drip with their blood, and terror grips their hearts.

26 Everything they have saved is destroyed; a fire not lit by human hands burns them and all their family.

27 Heaven reveals their sin, and the earth gives testimony against them.

28 All their wealth will be destroyed in the flood of God's anger.

29 This is the fate of wicked people, the fate that God assigns to them.

World English Bible WEB

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

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

3 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame; The spirit of my understanding answers me.

4 Don't you know this from old time, Since man was placed on earth,

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

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

7 Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung, Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

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

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

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

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

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

14 Yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

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

16 He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

17 He shall not look at the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

18 That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

20 "Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

21 There was nothing left that he didn't devour, Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him: The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

23 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

24 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.

25 He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, The earth shall rise up against him.

28 The increase of his house shall depart; They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.

29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, The heritage appointed to him by God."