Job 20

1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,Cross-references: Job 2:11 · Job 11:1 · Job 42:9

2“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.Cross-references: Job 4:2 · Job 13:19 · Job 20:3 · Job 32:13 · Ps 31:22 · Ps 39:2 · +8 more

3I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.Cross-references: Job 19:3 · Job 19:29 · Job 20:2 · Job 27:11 · Job 33:3 · Ps 49:3 · +1 more

4Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,Cross-references: Gen 1:28 · Gen 9:1 · Job 8:8 · Job 15:10 · Job 32:7 · Ps 115:16

5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?Cross-references: Ex 15:9 · Judg 16:21 · Esth 5:11 · Esth 7:10 · Job 5:3 · Job 8:12 · +12 more

6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,Cross-references: Gen 11:4 · Isa 14:13 · Dan 4:11 · Dan 4:22 · Amos 9:2 · Obad 1:3 · +1 more

7yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’Cross-references: 1Ki 14:10 · 2Ki 9:37 · Job 4:20 · Job 7:10 · Job 8:18 · Job 14:10 · +2 more

8He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.Cross-references: Job 18:18 · Job 27:21 · Ps 18:10 · Ps 73:20 · Ps 90:5 · Isa 29:7

9The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.Cross-references: Job 7:8 · Job 7:10 · Job 8:18 · Job 20:7 · Job 27:3 · Ps 37:10 · +2 more

10His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth.Cross-references: Ex 9:2 · Ex 12:36 · Ex 22:1 · Ex 22:3 · 2Sam 12:6 · Job 5:4 · +6 more

11His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.Cross-references: Job 13:26 · Job 19:20 · Job 21:26 · Ps 25:7 · Prov 5:11 · Prov 5:22 · +6 more

12“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,Cross-references: Gen 3:6 · Job 15:16 · Ps 10:7 · Ps 109:17 · Prov 9:17 · Prov 20:17 · +1 more

13though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth,Cross-references: Num 11:18 · Matt 5:29 · Mark 9:43 · Rom 8:13

14yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.Cross-references: Deut 32:24 · 2Sam 11:2 · 2Sam 12:10 · Job 20:16 · Ps 32:3 · Ps 38:1 · +7 more

15He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.Cross-references: Prov 23:8 · Matt 27:3

16He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.Cross-references: Deut 32:24 · Isa 30:6 · Matt 3:7 · Acts 28:3 · Rom 3:13

17He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.Cross-references: Num 14:23 · Deut 32:13 · 2Sam 17:29 · 2Ki 7:2 · Job 29:6 · Ps 36:8 · +7 more

18He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.Cross-references: Job 20:5 · Job 20:10 · Job 20:15 · Job 31:25 · Job 31:29 · Prov 1:12 · +14 more

19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.Cross-references: Deut 28:33 · 1Sam 12:3 · 1Ki 21:19 · Job 18:15 · Job 21:27 · Job 22:6 · +19 more

20“Because he knew no quietness within him, he will not save anything of that in which he delights.Cross-references: Eccl 5:13 · Isa 57:20

21There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure.Cross-references: Job 15:29 · Job 18:19 · Jer 17:11 · Luke 16:24

22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.Cross-references: 2Ki 24:2 · Job 1:15 · Job 1:17 · Job 3:17 · Job 15:29 · Job 16:11 · +5 more

23When 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.Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · Ex 9:23 · Num 11:33 · Ps 11:6 · Ps 78:30 · Isa 21:4 · +2 more

24He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.Cross-references: 2Sam 22:35 · 1Ki 20:30 · Prov 7:23 · Isa 24:18 · Jer 48:43 · Amos 5:19 · +1 more

25He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.Cross-references: Deut 32:41 · 2Sam 18:14 · Job 6:4 · Job 15:21 · Job 16:13 · Job 18:11 · +6 more

26All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.Cross-references: Job 18:5 · Job 18:18 · Ps 21:9 · Ps 109:9 · Ps 120:4 · Isa 8:22 · +5 more

27The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him.Cross-references: Deut 31:28 · Job 16:18 · Job 18:18 · Ps 44:20 · Isa 26:21 · Jer 29:23 · +4 more

28The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.Cross-references: Deut 28:31 · 2Ki 20:17 · Job 5:5 · Job 20:10 · Job 20:18 · Job 21:30 · +6 more

29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”Cross-references: Deut 29:20 · Job 18:21 · Job 27:13 · Job 31:2 · Ps 11:5 · Lam 3:38 · +1 more