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Job 20

The Message Bible MSG

1 Zophar from Naamath again took his turn:

2 "I can't believe what I'm hearing! You've put my teeth on edge, my stomach in a knot.

3 How dare you insult my intelligence like this! Well, here's a piece of my mind!

4 "Don't you even know the basics, how things have been since the earliest days, when Adam and Eve were first placed on earth?

5 The good times of the wicked are short-lived; godless joy is only momentary.

6 The evil might become world famous, strutting at the head of the celebrity parade,

7 But still end up in a pile of dung. Acquaintances look at them with disgust and say, 'What's that?'

8 They fly off like a dream that can't be remembered, like a shadowy illusion that vanishes in the light.

9 Though once notorious public figures, now they're nobodies, unnoticed, whether they come or go.

10 Their children will go begging on skid row, and they'll have to give back their ill-gotten gain.

11 Right in the prime of life, and youthful and vigorous, they'll die.

12 "They savor evil as a delicacy, roll it around on their tongues,

13 Prolong the flavor, a dalliance in decadence - real gourmets of evil!

14 But then they get stomach cramps, a bad case of food poisoning.

15 They gag on all that rich food; God makes them vomit it up.

16 They gorge on evil, make a diet of that poison - a deadly diet - and it kills them.

17 No quiet picnics for them beside gentle streams with fresh-baked bread and cheese, and tall, cool drinks.

18 They spit out their food half-chewed, unable to relax and enjoy anything they've worked for.

19 And why? Because they exploited the poor, took what never belonged to them.

20 "Such God-denying people are never content with what they have or who they are; their greed drives them relentlessly.

21 They plunder everything but they can't hold on to any of it.

22 Just when they think they have it all, disaster strikes; they're served up a plate full of misery.

23 When they've filled their bellies with that, God gives them a taste of his anger, and they get to chew on that for a while.

24 As they run for their lives from one disaster, they run smack into another.

25 They're knocked around from pillar to post, beaten to within an inch of their lives. They're trapped in a house of horrors,

26 and see their loot disappear down a black hole. Their lives are a total loss - not a penny to their name, not so much as a bean.

27 God will strip them of their sin-soaked clothes and hang their dirty laundry out for all to see.

28 Life is a complete wipeout for them, nothing surviving God's wrath.

29 There! That's God's blueprint for the wicked - what they have to look forward to."

King James Version KJV

1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

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

5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

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

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

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

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

10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

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

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

13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

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

16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.