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| | Job 20:1 | Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
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| | Job 20:2 | "I must reply because I am greatly disturbed.
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| | Job 20:3 | I have had to endure your insults, but now my spirit prompts me to reply.
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| | Job 20:4 | "Don't you realize that ever since people were first placed on the earth,
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| | Job 20:5 | the triumph of the wicked has been short-lived and the joy of the godless has been only temporary?
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| | Job 20:6 | Though the godless man's pride reaches to the heavens and though his head touches the clouds,
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| | Job 20:7 | yet he will perish forever, thrown away like his own dung. Those who knew him will ask, 'Where is he?'
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| | Job 20:8 | He will fade like a dream and not be found. He will vanish like a vision in the night.
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| | Job 20:9 | Neither his friends nor his family will ever see him again.
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| | Job 20:10 | His children will beg from the poor, for he must give back his ill-gotten wealth.
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| | Job 20:11 | He was just a young man, but his bones will lie in the dust.
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| | Job 20:12 | "He enjoyed the taste of his wickedness, letting it melt under his tongue.
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| | Job 20:13 | He savored it, holding it long in his mouth.
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| | Job 20:14 | But suddenly, the food he has eaten turns sour within him, a poisonous venom in his stomach.
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| | Job 20:15 | He will vomit the wealth he swallowed. God won't let him keep it down.
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| | Job 20:16 | He will suck the poison of snakes. The viper will kill him.
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| | Job 20:17 | He will never again enjoy abundant streams of olive oil or rivers of milk and honey.
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| | Job 20:18 | His labors will not be rewarded. His wealth will bring him no joy.
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| | Job 20:19 | For he oppressed the poor and left them destitute. He foreclosed on their homes.
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| | Job 20:20 | He was always greedy but never satisfied. Of all the things he dreamed about, nothing remains.
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| | Job 20:21 | Nothing is left after he finishes gorging himself; therefore, his prosperity will not endure.
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| | Job 20:22 | "In the midst of plenty, he will run into trouble, and disasters will destroy him.
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| | Job 20:23 | May God give him a bellyful of trouble. May God rain down his anger upon him.
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| | Job 20:24 | He will try to escape, but God's arrow will pierce him.
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| | Job 20:25 | The arrow is pulled from his body, and the arrowhead glistens with blood. The terrors of death are upon him.
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| | Job 20:26 | "His treasures will be lost in deepest darkness. A wildfire will devour his goods, consuming all he has left.
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| | Job 20:27 | The heavens will reveal his guilt, and the earth will give testimony against him.
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| | Job 20:28 | A flood will sweep away his house. God's anger will descend on him in torrents.
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| | Job 20:29 | This is the fate that awaits the wicked. It is the inheritance decreed by God."
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