Job 20:1-13 ▼

1 Then aunswered Sophar the Naamathite, and saide:

2 For the same cause do my thoughtes compell me to aunswere, and therefore, make haste.

3 I haue sufficiently heard the checking of my reproofe, therefore the spirite of myne vnderstanding causeth me to aunswere.

4 Knowest thou not this of olde, and since God plaged man vpon earth,

5 That the gladnesse of the vngodlie hath ben short, and that the ioy of hypocrites continued but the twinckling of an eye?

6 Though he be magnified vp to the heauen, so that his head reacheth vnto the cloudes:

7 Yet at a turne he perisheth for euer, insomuch that they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is he?

8 He shall vanishe as a dreame, so that he can no more be founde, and shal passe away as a vision in the night.

9 So that the eye which sawe him before, shal haue no more sight of him, and his place shall know him no more.

10 His children shalbe faine to agree with the poore, and his handes shall restore their goodes.

11 From his youth his bones are full of pleasures, but now shall it lye downe within him in the earth.

12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, he hyd it vnder his tongue.

13 That he fauoured, that would he not forsake, but kept it close in his throte.