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Job 20

1 Zophár sheweth, that the wicked and the covetous shal have a shorte end, 12 Thogh for a time they florish.
1.Then answered Zophár, the Naamathite and said,
2.Douteles my thoghts cause me to answer, and therefore I make haste.
3.I have heard athe correction of my reproche: therefore the spirit of mine understanding causeth me to answer.
4.Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man upon the earth?
5.That the rejoycing of the wicked is shorte, and that the joye of hypocrites is but a moment?
6.Thogh bhis excellencie mounte up to the heaven, and his head reache unto the cloudes,
7.Yet shal he perish for ever, like his dung, and they which have sene him, shal say, Where is he?
8.He shal flee away as a dreame, and thei shal not find him, and shal passe away as a vision of the night.
9.So that the eye which had sene him, shal do so no more, and his place shal se him no more.
10.His children shal cflatter the poore, and his hands shal drestore his substance.
11.His bones are ful of the sinne of his youth, and eit shal lye downe with him in the dust.
12.When wickednes fwas swete in his mouthe, and he hid it under his tongue,
13.And savoured it, and wolde not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,
14.Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of aspes was in the middes of him.
15.He hathe devoured substance, and he shal vomit it: for God shal drawe it out of his belly.
16.He shal sucke the ggall of aspes, and the viper’s tongue shal slaye him.
17.He shal not se the hrivers, nor the floods and streames of hony and butter.
18.He shal restore the labour, and shal devoure nomore: even according to the substance shalbe his exchange, iand he shal enjoye it nomore.
19.For he hathe undone manie: he hathe forsaken the poore, and hathe spoiled houses which he buylded not.
20.Surely he shal fele no quietnes in his body, nether shal he reserve of that which he desired.
21.There shal none of his kmeat be left: therefore none shal hope for his goods.
22.When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in peine, and the hand lof all the wicked shal assaile him. The prosperitie. Job. 20:
23.He shalbe about to fil his belly, but God shal send upon him his fearce wrath, mand shal cause to raine upon him, even upon his meat.
24.He shal flee from the yron weapons, & the bowe of stele shal strike him through.
25.The arowe is drawen out, and cometh forthe of the nbody, and shineth of his gall, so feare cometh upon him.
26.oAll darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fyre that is not pblowen, shal devoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroied.
27.The heaven shal declare his wickednes, and the earth shal rise up against him.
28.The qincrease of his house shal go away: it shal flowe away in the day of his wrath.
29.This is the portion of the wicked man from rGod, and the heritage that he shal have of God for his swordes.

Notes

3-a.
He declares that two things moved him to speak: to wit, because Job seemed to touch him, and because he thought he had knowledge sufficient to confute him.
6-b.
His purpose is to prove Job to be a wicked man, and an hypocrite, because God punished him, and changed his prosperity into adversity.
10-c.
Whereas the father through ambition & tyranny oppressed the poor, the children through poverty and misery shall seek favour at the poor.
10-d.
So that the thing, which he has taken away by violence, shall be restored again by force.
11-e.
Meaning, that he shall carry nothing away with him, but his sin.
12-f.
As poison that is sweet in the mouth brings destruction, when it comes into the body so all vice at the first is pleasant, but afterward God turns it to destruction.
16-g.
He compares evil gotten goods to the venom of asps, which serpent is most dangerous: noting that Job’s great riches were not truly come by, and therefore God did plague him justly for the same.
17-h.
Though God give to all other abundance of his blessings, yet he shall have no part thereof.
18-i.
That is, these raveners and spoilers of the poor shall enjoy their theft but for a time: for after God will take it from them and cause them to make restitution, so that it is but an exchange.
21-k.
He shall leave nothing to his posterity.
22-l.
The wicked shall never be in rest: for one wicked man shall seek to destroy another. 4
23-m.
Some read, upon his flesh, alluding to Job, whose flesh was smitten with a scab.
25-n.
Some read, of the quiver.
26-o.
All fear and sorrow shall light upon him, when he thinks to escape.
26-p.
That is, fire from heaven, or the fire of God’s wrath.
28-q.
Meaning, the children of the wicked shall flow away like rivers and be dispersed in divers places.
29-r.
Thus God will plague the wicked.
29-s.
Against God, thinking to excuse himself and to escape God’s hand.