# Job 20 (New King James Version)
Zophar's Sermon on the Wicked Man

##### Chapter 20
###### 1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

###### 2 "Therefore my anxious thoughts make me answer,  
Because of the turmoil within me.  

###### 3 I have heard the rebuke that reproaches me,  
And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.

###### 4 "Do you _not_ know this of old,  
Since man was placed on earth,  

###### 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short,  
And the joy of the hypocrite is _but_ for a moment?  

###### 6 Though his haughtiness mounts up to the heavens,  
And his head reaches to the clouds,  

###### 7 _Yet_ he will perish forever like his own refuse;  
Those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'  

###### 8 He will fly away like a dream, and not be found;  
Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.  

###### 9 The eye _that_ saw him will _see him_ no more,  
Nor will his place behold him anymore.  

###### 10 His children will seek the favor of the poor,  
And his hands will restore his wealth.  

###### 11 His bones are full of his youthful vigor,  
But it will lie down with him in the dust.

###### 12 "Though evil is sweet in his mouth,  
_And_ he hides it under his tongue,  

###### 13 _Though_ he spares it and does not forsake it,  
But still keeps it in his mouth,  

###### 14 _Yet_ his food in his stomach turns sour;  
It becomes cobra venom within him.  

###### 15 He swallows down riches  
And vomits them up again;  
God casts them out of his belly.  

###### 16 He will suck the poison of cobras;  
The viper's tongue will slay him.  

###### 17 He will not see the streams,  
The rivers flowing with honey and cream.  

###### 18 He will restore that for which he labored,  
And will not swallow _it_ down;  
From the proceeds of business  
He will get no enjoyment.  

###### 19 For he has oppressed _and_ forsaken the poor,  
He has violently seized a house which he did not build.

###### 20 "Because he knows no quietness in his heart,  
He will not save anything he desires.  

###### 21 Nothing is left for him to eat;  
Therefore his well-being will not last.  

###### 22 In his self-sufficiency he will be in distress;  
Every hand of misery will come against him.  

###### 23 _When_ he is about to fill his stomach,  
_God_ will cast on him the fury of His wrath,  
And will rain _it_ on him while he is eating.  

###### 24 He will flee from the iron weapon;  
A bronze bow will pierce him through.  

###### 25 It is drawn, and comes out of the body;  
Yes, the glittering _point comes_ out of his gall.  
Terrors _come_ upon him;  

###### 26 Total darkness _is_ reserved for his treasures.  
An unfanned fire will consume him;  
It shall go ill with him who is left in his tent.  

###### 27 The heavens will reveal his iniquity,  
And the earth will rise up against him.  

###### 28 The increase of his house will depart,  
_And his goods_ will flow away in the day of His wrath.  

###### 29 This _is_ the portion from God for a wicked man,  
The heritage appointed to him by God."