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Job 20:1
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And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --
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Job 20:2
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Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.
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Job 20:3
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The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:
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Job 20:4
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This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?
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Job 20:5
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That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,
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Job 20:6
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Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike --
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Job 20:7
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As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where [is] he?'
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Job 20:8
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As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
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Job 20:9
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The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.
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Job 20:10
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His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.
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Job 20:11
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His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.
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Job 20:12
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Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,
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Job 20:13
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Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,
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Job 20:14
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His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps [is] in his heart.
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Job 20:15
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Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.
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Job 20:16
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Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.
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Job 20:17
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He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.
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Job 20:18
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He is giving back [what] he laboured for, And doth not consume [it]; As a bulwark [is] his exchange, and he exults not.
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Job 20:19
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For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.
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Job 20:20
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For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.
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Job 20:21
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There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.
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Job 20:22
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In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.
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Job 20:23
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It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.
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Job 20:24
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He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.
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Job 20:25
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One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him [are] terrors.
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Job 20:26
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All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.
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Job 20:27
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Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.
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Job 20:28
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Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.
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Job 20:29
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This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.
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