Verse 2
Job 20:2
Geneva Bible
2
Doubtlesse my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לָ֭/כֵן שְׂעִפַּ֣/י יְשִׁיב֑וּ/נִי וּ֝/בַ/עֲב֗וּר ח֣וּשִׁ/י בִֽ/י
English Translation
Therefore, they will answer me for my understanding.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 20 Context
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Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,
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Doubtlesse my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.
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I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to...
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Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God (Elohim) placed man vpon the earth,
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That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?
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Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,
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Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee...
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He shall flee away as a dreame, and they shall not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of th...
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So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more.
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His children shall flatter the poore, and his hands shall restore his substance.
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His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shall lie downe with him in the dust.
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When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,
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And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,
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Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.
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He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God (Elohim) shall drawe it out of his belli...
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He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.
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He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.
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He shall restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his e...
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For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.
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Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.
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There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shall hope for his goods.
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When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall a...
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He shall be about to fill his belly, but God (Elohim) shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and sha...
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He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shall strike him through.
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The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so feare commeth v...
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All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and th...
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The heauen shall declare his wickednes, and the earth shall rise vp against him.
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The increase of his house shall go away: it shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
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This is the portion of the wicked man from God (Elohim), and the heritage that he shall haue of God...
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