{"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/web/job/20","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T02:36:21.745Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":20,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":19,"nextChapter":21,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"|Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who 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 like a vision of the night."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"|Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"|Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 20 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 20](https://primebible.com/web/job/20)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/20 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}