{"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/drb/job/20","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T15:52:55.757Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":20,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":19,"nextChapter":21,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said: "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth, "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds: "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he? "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night: "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render him his sorrow. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"The riches which he hath swallowed; he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"(Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.) "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods: "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon him. "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle. "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. "},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath. "},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 20 (DRB)","markdown":"[Job 20](https://primebible.com/drb/job/20)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/job/20 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}