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20:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,
20:2 Doubtlesse my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.
20:3 I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.
20:4 Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,
20:5 That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?
20:6 Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,
20:7 Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?
20:8 He shall flee away as a dreame, and they shall not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,
20:9 So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more.
20:10 His children shall flatter the poore, and his hands shall restore his substance.
20:11 His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shall lie downe with him in the dust.
20:12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,
20:13 And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,
20:14 Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.
20:15 He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.
20:16 He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.
20:17 He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.
20:18 He shall restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, and he shall enioy it no more.
20:19 For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.
20:20 Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.
20:21 There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shall hope for his goods.
20:22 When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him.
20:23 He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate.
20:24 He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shall strike him through.
20:25 The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.
20:26 All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed.
20:27 The heauen shall declare his wickednes, and the earth shall rise vp against him.
20:28 The increase of his house shall go away: it shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
20:29 This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage that he shall haue of God for his wordes.