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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."

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,

13 Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;

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."