Job 20 (NET)

Job 20:1¹Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 2:11Job 11:1Job 42:9

Job 20:2²“This is why my troubled thoughts bring me back — because of my feelings within me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 14:29Ps 31:22Eccl 7:9Jas 1:19Jer 20:9Job 13:19Job 20:3Job 32:13-20Job 4:2Mark 6:25

Job 20:3³When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 33:3Job 19:29Job 19:3Job 20:2Job 27:11Ps 49:3Ps 78:2-5

Job 20:4⁴“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 1:28Gen 9:1-3Job 15:10Job 32:7Job 8:8-9Ps 115:16

Job 20:5⁵that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 37:35-36Job 18:5-6Acts 12:22-23Job 27:8Job 5:3Job 8:12-13Matt 13:20-21Ps 73:18-20Esth 5:11-12Esth 7:10

Job 20:6⁶Even though his stature reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 14:13-14Obad 1:3-4Gen 11:4Amos 9:2Dan 4:11Dan 4:22Matt 11:23

Job 20:7⁷he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say, ‘Where is he?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 14:102 Kgs 9:37Job 14:10Job 4:20Job 7:10Job 8:18Ps 83:10Jer 8:2

Job 20:8⁸Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 90:5Ps 73:20Isa 29:7-8Job 18:18Job 27:21-23Ps 18:10

Job 20:9⁹People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 7:8Job 7:10Job 8:18Job 20:7Ps 37:10Ps 37:36Job 27:3Ps 103:15-16

Job 20:10¹⁰His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 20:18Job 27:16-17Luke 19:82 Sam 12:6Exod 12:36Exod 22:1Exod 22:3Exod 9:2Job 5:4Prov 28:3

Job 20:11¹¹His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 13:26Job 21:26Ps 25:7Ezek 24:13Ezek 32:27John 8:24Acts 1:25Job 19:20Prov 14:32Prov 5:11-13

Job 20:12¹²“If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 15:16Ps 10:7Eccl 11:9Gen 3:6Prov 20:17Prov 9:17-18Ps 109:17-18

Job 20:13¹³if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 9:43-49Matt 5:29-30Num 11:18-20Rom 8:13

Job 20:14¹⁴his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 3:132 Sam 11:2-52 Sam 12:10-11Deut 32:24Jer 2:19Job 20:16Mal 2:2Prov 1:31Prov 23:20-21Prov 23:29-35

Job 20:15¹⁵The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 23:8Matt 27:3-4

Job 20:16¹⁶He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 28:3-6Rom 3:13Deut 32:24Isa 30:6Matt 3:7

Job 20:17¹⁷He will not look on the streams, the rivers that are the torrents of honey and butter.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:13-14Job 29:6Luke 16:242 Kgs 7:22 Sam 17:29Isa 41:17Isa 7:15Isa 7:22Jer 17:6-8Num 14:23

Job 20:18¹⁸He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 20:10Jer 22:13Jer 51:44Job 20:15Prov 1:12Hos 8:7-8Isa 24:7-11Jer 11:15-16Jer 22:17Jer 51:34

Job 20:19¹⁹For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 35:9Prov 14:31Ezek 22:29Jas 2:13Jas 2:6Jas 5:4Prov 22:22-231 Kgs 21:191 Sam 12:3-4Amos 4:1-3

Job 20:20²⁰For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 5:13-14Isa 57:20-21

Job 20:21²¹“Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 17:11Job 15:29Job 18:19Luke 16:24-25

Job 20:22²²In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 15:29Rev 18:72 Kgs 24:2Eccl 2:18-20Isa 10:6Job 1:15Job 1:17Job 16:11Job 18:7Job 3:17

Job 20:23²³“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 78:30-31Num 11:33Exod 9:23Gen 19:24Isa 21:4Luke 12:17-20Mal 2:2Ps 11:6

Job 20:24²⁴If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 5:19Isa 24:182 Sam 22:351 Kgs 20:30Amos 9:1-3Jer 48:43-44Prov 7:23

Job 20:25²⁵When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 16:13Job 18:11Deut 32:41Job 15:21Job 27:20Ps 7:122 Cor 5:112 Sam 18:14Jer 20:3-4Job 6:4

Job 20:26²⁶Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire that has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 21:9Ps 120:4Isa 14:20-22Isa 30:33Isa 8:22Job 18:18-19Job 18:5-6Jude 1:13Matt 3:12Matt 8:12

Job 20:27²⁷The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 26:21Job 16:18Luke 12:2-31 Cor 4:5Deut 31:28Jer 29:23Job 18:18Mal 3:5Ps 44:20-21Rom 2:16

Job 20:28²⁸A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 27:14-19Jas 5:1-3Rev 18:17Zeph 1:182 Kgs 20:17Deut 28:31Job 20:10Job 20:18-22Job 21:30Job 5:5

Job 20:29²⁹Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 27:13Job 31:2-3Job 18:21Ps 11:5-6Lam 3:38Matt 24:51Deut 29:20-28