Job 20:3-17
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3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
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4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
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5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
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6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
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7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
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8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
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9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
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10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
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11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
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12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
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13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
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14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
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15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
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16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
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17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.