{"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/ylt/job/20","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T00:28:58.997Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":20,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":19,"nextChapter":21,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: — "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike — "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: 'Where is he?'"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps is in his heart."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"He is giving back what he laboured for, And doth not consume it; As a bulwark is his exchange, and he exults not."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For he oppressed — he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him are terrors."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"This is the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 20 (YLT)","markdown":"[Job 20](https://primebible.com/ylt/job/20)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/job/20 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}