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diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_20_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_20_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa66509 --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_20_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Job. +Chapter 20. +Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said, +For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on. +I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom. +Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth, +That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute? +Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds; +Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he? +He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night. +The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him. +His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth. +His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust. +Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue; +Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth; +His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him. +He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God. +He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death. +Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk. +He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading. +Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up; +There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight. +He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end. +Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him. +God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain. +He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him; +He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears. +All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent. +The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him. +The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath. +This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God. |
