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            <div class="label">20</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Zophar's Speech</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.20.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.20.2"><span class="content">And for </span><span class="add"><span class="content">this</span></span><span class="content"> I make haste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I have heard the check of my reproach,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.20.3"><span class="content">And the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Knowest thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">not</span></span><span class="content"> this of old,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.20.4"><span class="content">Since man was placed upon earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.20.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">That the triumphing of the wicked </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> short,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.20.5"><span class="content">And the joy of the hypocrite </span><span class="add"><span class="content">but</span></span><span class="content"> for a moment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.20.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Though his excellency mount up to the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.20.6"><span class="content">And his head reach unto the clouds;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> he shall perish for ever like his own dung:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.20.7"><span class="content">They which have seen him shall say, Where </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> he?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.20.8"><span class="content">Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The eye also </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> saw him shall </span><span class="add"><span class="content">see him</span></span><span class="content"> no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.20.9"><span class="content">Neither shall his place any more behold him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.20.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">His children shall seek to please the poor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.20.10"><span class="content">And his hands shall restore their goods.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">His bones are full </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of the sin</span></span><span class="content"> of his youth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.20.11"><span class="content">Which shall lie down with him in the dust.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.20.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Though</span></span><span class="content"> he hide it under his tongue;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.20.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Though</span></span><span class="content"> he spare it, and forsake it not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.20.13"><span class="content">But keep it still within his mouth:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> his meat in his bowels is turned,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.20.14"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">It is</span></span><span class="content"> the gall of asps within him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.20.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.20.15"><span class="content">God shall cast them out of his belly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He shall suck the poison of asps:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.20.16"><span class="content">The viper's tongue shall slay him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He shall not see the rivers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.20.17"><span class="content">The floods, the brooks of honey and butter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">That which he laboured for shall he restore,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="content">And shall not swallow </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> down:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="content">According to </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> substance </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall</span></span><span class="content"> the restitution </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="content">and he shall not rejoice </span><span class="add"><span class="content">therein</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Because he hath oppressed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> hath forsaken the poor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.20.19"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Because</span></span><span class="content"> he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.20.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.20.20"><span class="content">He shall not save of that which he desired.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.20.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">There shall none of his meat be left;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.20.21"><span class="content">Therefore shall no man look for his goods.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.20.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.20.22"><span class="content">Every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.20.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">When</span></span><span class="content"> he is about to fill his belly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="content">And shall rain </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> upon him while he is eating.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He shall flee from the iron weapon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.20.24"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> the bow of steel shall strike him through.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.20.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">It is drawn, and cometh out of the body;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="content">Yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="content">Terrors </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> upon him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">All darkness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> hid in his secret places:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="content">A fire not blown shall consume him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="content">It shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The heaven shall reveal his iniquity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.20.27"><span class="content">And the earth shall rise up against him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.20.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The increase of his house shall depart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.20.28"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And his goods</span></span><span class="content"> shall flow away in the day of his wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.20.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.20.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">This </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the portion of a wicked man from God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.20.29"><span class="content">And the heritage appointed unto him by God.</span></span></div>
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Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer,
And for this I make haste.
I have heard the check of my reproach,
And the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
Knowest thou not this of old,
Since man was placed upon earth,
That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
And the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens,
And his head reach unto the clouds;
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung:
They which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found:
Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more;
Neither shall his place any more behold him.
His children shall seek to please the poor,
And his hands shall restore their goods.
His bones are full of the sin of his youth,
Which shall lie down with him in the dust.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth,
Though he hide it under his tongue;
Though he spare it, and forsake it not;
But keep it still within his mouth:
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned,
It is the gall of asps within him.
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again:
God shall cast them out of his belly.
He shall suck the poison of asps:
The viper's tongue shall slay him.
He shall not see the rivers,
The floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
That which he laboured for shall he restore,
And shall not swallow it down:
According to his substance shall the restitution be,
and he shall not rejoice therein.
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor;
Because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly,
He shall not save of that which he desired.
There shall none of his meat be left;
Therefore shall no man look for his goods.
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits:
Every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
When he is about to fill his belly,
God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him,
And shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
He shall flee from the iron weapon,
And the bow of steel shall strike him through.
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body;
Yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall:
Terrors are upon him.
All darkness shall be hid in his secret places:
A fire not blown shall consume him;
It shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity;
And the earth shall rise up against him.
The increase of his house shall depart,
And his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
This is the portion of a wicked man from God,
And the heritage appointed unto him by God.

കേൾക്കുക Job 20