020:001

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste

020:002

I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer

020:003

Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth

020:004

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment

020:005

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds

020:006

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he

020:007

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night

020:008

The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him

020:009

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods

020:010

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust

020:011

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue

020:012

Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth

020:013

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him

020:014

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly

020:015

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him

020:016

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter

020:017

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein

020:018

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not

020:019

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired

020:020

There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods

020:021

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him

020:022

When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating

020:023

He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through

020:024

It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him

020:025

All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle

020:026

The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him

020:027

The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath

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This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God