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95 lines
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Zophar's Second Response to Job
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# Chapter 20
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1. Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
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2. "I must reply
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because I am greatly disturbed.
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3. I've had to endure your insults,
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but now my spirit prompts me to reply.
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4. "Don't you realize that from the beginning of time,
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ever since people were first placed on the earth,
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5. the triumph of the wicked has been short lived
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and the joy of the godless has been only temporary?
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6. Though the pride of the godless reaches to the heavens
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and their heads touch the clouds,
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7. yet they will vanish forever,
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thrown away like their own dung.
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Those who knew them will ask,
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'Where are they?'
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8. They will fade like a dream and not be found.
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They will vanish like a vision in the night.
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9. Those who once saw them will see them no more.
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Their families will never see them again.
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10. Their children will beg from the poor,
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for they must give back their stolen riches.
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11. Though they are young,
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their bones will lie in the dust.
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12. "They enjoyed the sweet taste of wickedness,
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letting it melt under their tongue.
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13. They savored it,
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holding it long in their mouths.
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14. But suddenly the food in their bellies turns sour,
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a poisonous venom in their stomach.
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15. They will vomit the wealth they swallowed.
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God won't let them keep it down.
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16. They will suck the poison of cobras.
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The viper will kill them.
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17. They will never again enjoy streams of olive oil
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or rivers of milk and honey.
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18. They will give back everything they worked for.
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Their wealth will bring them no joy.
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19. For they oppressed the poor and left them destitute.
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They foreclosed on their homes.
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20. They were always greedy and never satisfied.
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Nothing remains of all the things they dreamed about.
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21. Nothing is left after they finish gorging themselves.
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Therefore, their prosperity will not endure.
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22. "In the midst of plenty, they will run into trouble
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and be overcome by misery.
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23. May God give them a bellyful of trouble.
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May God rain down his anger upon them.
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24. When they try to escape an iron weapon,
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a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce them.
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25. The arrow is pulled from their back,
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and the arrowhead glistens with blood.
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The terrors of death are upon them.
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26. Their treasures will be thrown into deepest darkness.
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A wildfire will devour their goods,
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consuming all they have left.
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27. The heavens will reveal their guilt,
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and the earth will testify against them.
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28. A flood will sweep away their house.
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God's anger will descend on them in torrents.
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29. This is the reward that God gives the wicked.
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It is the inheritance decreed by God."
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