{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/job/20","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:25:21.329Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":20,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":19,"nextChapter":21,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Know you not this of old, since man was placed on earth,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away an house which he built not;"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come on him."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath on him, and shall rain it on him while he is eating."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yes, the glittering sword comes out of his gall: terrors are on him."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 20 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Job 20](https://primebible.com/akjv/job/20)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/job/20 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}