Job 20:1-13 ▼

1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,

2 Doubtles my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.

3 I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.

4 Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,

5 That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?

6 Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,

7 Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?

8 He shal flee away as a dreame, and they shal not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,

9 So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, & his place shal see him no more.

10 His children shall flatter the poore, & his hands shall restore his substance.

11 His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shal lie downe with him in the dust.

12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,

13 And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,