
1 Zophar of Naamath spoke next. He said: Job 2:11 Job 11:1 Job 42:9 2 My thoughts urge me to reply to this, and hence the impatience that grips me. Eccl 7:9 Jas 1:19 Jer 20:9 Job 4:2 Job 13:19 Job 20:3 Job 32:13-20 3 I have put up with prating that outrages me and now my mind inspires me with an answer. Job 19:3 Job 19:29 Job 20:2 Job 27:11 Job 33:3 Ps 49:3 Ps 78:2-5 4 Do you not know, that since time began and human beings were set on the earth, Gen 1:28 Gen 9:1-3 Job 8:8-9 Job 15:10 Job 32:7 Ps 115:16 5 the triumph of the wicked has always been brief, and the sinner's gladness has never lasted long? Ps 37:35-36 Acts 12:22-23 Esth 5:11-12 Esth 7:10 Exod 15:9-10 Gal 6:4 Jas 4:16 6 Towering to the sky he may have been, his head touching the clouds; Isa 14:13-14 Obad 1:3-4 Gen 11:4 Amos 9:2 Dan 4:11 Dan 4:22 Matt 11:23 7 but he vanishes, like a phantom, once for all, while those who used to see him, ask, 'Where is he?' 1Kgs 14:10 2Kgs 9:37 Job 14:10 Ps 83:10 Jer 8:2 Job 4:20 Job 7:10 8 Like a dream that leaves no trace he takes his flight, like a vision in the night he flies away. Ps 73:20 Ps 90:5 Isa 29:7-8 Job 18:18 Job 27:21-23 Ps 18:10 9 The eye accustomed to see him sees him no more, his home will never set eyes on him again. Job 7:8 Job 7:10 Job 8:18 Ps 37:10 Ps 37:36 Job 20:7 Job 27:3 10 His sons will have to reimburse the poor and his children pay back his riches. Job 20:18 Job 27:16-17 Luke 19:8 2Sam 12:6 Exod 9:2 Exod 12:36 Exod 22:1 11 His bones used to be full of youthful vigour: and there it lies, in the dust with him, now! Job 21:26 Job 13:26 Ps 25:7 Acts 1:25 Ezek 24:13 Ezek 32:27 Job 19:20 12 Evil was sweet to his mouth, he would shelter it under his tongue; Job 15:16 Ps 10:7 Eccl 11:9 Gen 3:6 Ps 109:17-18 Prov 9:17-18 Prov 20:17 13 cultivating it carefully, he would let it linger on his palate. Mark 9:43-49 Matt 5:29-30 Num 11:18-20 Rom 8:13 14 Such food goes bad in his belly, working inside him like the poison of a viper. 2Sam 11:2-5 2Sam 12:10-11 Deut 32:24 Jer 2:19 Job 20:16 Mal 2:2 Ps 32:3-4 15 Now he has to vomit up the wealth that he has swallowed, God makes him disgorge it. Prov 23:8 Matt 27:3-4 16 He used to suck vipers' venom, and the tongue of the adder kills him. Acts 28:3-6 Deut 32:24 Isa 30:6 Matt 3:7 Rom 3:13 17 No more will he know the streams of oil or the torrents of honey and cream. Deut 32:13-14 Job 29:6 2Kgs 7:2 2Sam 17:29 Isa 7:15 Isa 7:22 Isa 41:17 18 When he gives back his winnings, his cheerfulness will fade, and the satisfied air he had when business was thriving. Job 20:10 Job 20:15 Amos 8:4 Ezek 7:12 Hos 8:7-8 Hos 9:1 Isa 24:7-11 19 Since he once destroyed the huts of the poor, plundering houses instead of building them up, Job 35:9 Prov 14:31 1Kgs 21:19 1Sam 12:3-4 Amos 4:1-3 Deut 28:33 Eccl 4:1 20 since his avarice could never be satisfied, now all his hoarding will not save him; Eccl 5:13-14 Isa 57:20-21 21 since nothing could escape his greed, his prosperity will not last. Jer 17:11 Job 15:29 Job 18:19 Luke 16:24-25 22 When he has everything he needs, want will seize him, and misery will light on him with all its force. 2Kgs 24:2 Eccl 2:18-20 Isa 10:6 Job 1:15 Job 1:17 Job 3:17 Job 15:29 23 On him God looses all his burning wrath, hurling against his flesh a hail of arrows. Ps 78:30-31 Num 11:33 Exod 9:23 Gen 19:24 Isa 21:4 Luke 12:17-20 Mal 2:2 24 If he escapes the weapons of iron, the bow of bronze will transfix him. Amos 5:19 Isa 24:18 2Sam 22:35 1Kgs 20:30 Amos 9:1-3 Jer 48:43-44 Prov 7:23 25 Out of his back sticks an arrow, from his gall a shining point. The terrors advance on him, Job 16:13 Job 18:11 Deut 32:41 2Cor 5:11 2Sam 18:14 Jer 20:3-4 Job 6:4 26 all the hidden darknesses are waiting to carry him off. A fire unlit by human hand devours him, and consumes what is left in his tent. Ps 21:9 Isa 8:22 Isa 14:20-22 Isa 30:33 Job 18:5-6 Job 18:18-19 Jude 1:13 27 The heavens lay bare his iniquity, and the earth rises up against him. Isa 26:21 Job 16:18 1Cor 4:5 Deut 31:28 Jer 29:23 Job 18:18 Luke 12:2-3 28 The income of his house pours away, like the torrents, on the day of retribution. 2Kgs 20:17 Deut 28:31 Jas 5:1-3 Job 5:5 Job 20:10 Job 20:18-22 Job 21:30 29 Such is the fate God reserves for the wicked, the inheritance he assigns to the accursed! Job 27:13 Job 31:2-3 Job 18:21 Deut 29:20-28 Lam 3:38 Matt 24:51 Ps 11:5-6 |