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| 20:1 |  hen answered Zophar the Naamathite, and saide, |
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| 20:2 | Therefore doe my thoughts cause mee to answere, and for this I make haste. |
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| 20:3 | I haue heard the checke of my reproach, and the spirit of my vnderstanding causeth me to answere. | |
| 20:4 | Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed vpon earth, | |
| 20:5 | That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the ioy of the hypocrite but for a moment? |
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| 20:6 | Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauens, and his head reach vnto the clouds: |
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| 20:7 | Yet he shall perish for euer, like his owne doung: they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is he? | |
| 20:8 | He shall flie away as a dreame, and shall not be found: yea he shalbe chased away as a vision of the night. | |
| 20:9 | The eye also which saw him, shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. | |
| 20:10 | His children shall seeke to please the poore, and his hands shall restore their goods. |
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| 20:11 | His bones are ful of the sinne of his youth, which shall ye downe with him in the dust. | |
| 20:12 | Though wickednes be sweet in his mouth, though hee hide it vnder his tongue; | |
| 20:13 | Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keepe it stil within his mouth: |
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| 20:14 | Yet his meate in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of Aspes within him. | |
| 20:15 | He hath swallowed downe riches, and hee shall vomite them vp againe: God shall cast them out of his belly. | |
| 20:16 | He shall sucke the poison of Aspes: the vipers tongue shall slay him. | |
| 20:17 | Hee shall not see the riuers, the floods, the brookes of hony and butter. |
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| 20:18 | That which he laboured for, shall he restore, & shall not swallow it downe: according to his substance shall the restitution bee, and hee shall not reioyce therein. |
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| 20:19 | Because hee hath oppressed, and hath forsaken the poore; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not: |
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| 20:20 | Surely he shall not feele quietnesse in his belly, hee shall not saue of that which he desired. |
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| 20:21 | There shall none of his meat be left, therefore shall no man looke for his goods. |
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| 20:22 | In the fulnesse of his sufficiencie, he shalbe in straites: euery hand of the wicked shall come vpon him. |
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| 20:23 | When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the furie of his wrath vpon him, and shall raine it vpon him while he is eating. | |
| 20:24 | He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steele shall strike him through. | |
| 20:25 | It is drawen, and commeth out of the body; yea the glistering sword commeth out of his gall; terrours are vpon him. | |
| 20:26 | All darknesse shalbe hid in his secret places: a fire not blowen shall consume him; it shall goe ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. | |
| 20:27 | The heauen shall reueale his iniquitie: and the earth shall rise vp against him. | |
| 20:28 | The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. | |
| 20:29 | This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed vnto him by God. |
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