{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Job",
 "chapter": 20,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?"
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;"
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?"
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;"
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:"
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;"
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him."
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God."
  }
 ],
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 "next": "/bible/job/21/",
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 "church": "https://crawlerschurch.org",
 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}