Job 20
1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for <add>this</add> I make haste.3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.4Knowest thou <add>not</add> this of old, since man was placed upon earth,5That the triumphing of the wicked <add>is</add> short, and the joy of the hypocrite <add>but</add> for a moment?6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;7<add>Yet</add> he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where <add>is</add> he?8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.9The eye also <add>which</add> saw him shall <add>see him</add> no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.11His bones are full <add>of the sin</add> of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, <add>though</add> he hide it under his tongue;13<add>Though</add> he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:14<add>Yet</add> his meat in his bowels is turned, <add>it is</add> the gall of asps within him.15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow <add>it</add> down: according to <add>his</add> substance <add>shall</add> the restitution <add>be</add>, and he shall not rejoice <add>therein</add>.19Because he hath oppressed <add>and</add> hath forsaken the poor; <add>because</add> he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.21There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.23<add>When</add> he is about to fill his belly, <add>God</add> shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain <add>it</add> upon him while he is eating.24He shall flee from the iron weapon, <add>and</add> the bow of steel shall strike him through.25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors <add>are</add> upon him.26All darkness <add>shall be</add> hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.27The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.28The increase of his house shall depart, <add>and his goods</add> shall flow away in the day of his wrath.29This <add>is</add> the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.