Reading 'Verbatim', the Books of the Old Testament - 'Job', Chapter 20; Bi-Monthly, MWF, Post 13-PM, March 16, 2020

​Continuing the Book of Job - Bible Prose, thus 'continual posting'] audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html 

Dialogue-Dispute (Chapters 3–27); First Cycle of Speeches (Chapters  4–14);​February 17, 19, 21, 2020
Job’s reply (Chapters 6–7) Post 6a-b; Bildad (Chapter 8) Post 7; Job’s reply (Chapters 9–10) Post 8a- b.
Then, February 25, 27, 2020; ​Zophar (Chapter 11) Post 9; Job’s reply (Chapters 12–14)  Posts 9-PM, 10a b.

​Job Chapter 19 JKV Holy Bible [Open Domain] audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html 
​​​​[In response to Eliphaz the Temanite, in Chapter 15, [Post 11-AM, March 10, 2020]; Job answers in Chapters 16-17, Post 11-PM, March 10, 2020 and Post 12-AM, March 12, 2020. 

Then, on March 12, 2020 in our Post 12-PM, we heard again [see Chapter 8, Post 7], from 'Bildad', Chapter 18, 'Bildad the Shuhite'.  Then, we considered Job's 'Response' to 'his comforter' of 'Bildad the Shuhite', Job Chapter 19, Post 13, March 16, 2020] 

​Now, as if he has not had enough, Job hears from his 'friend', Zophar, the Naamathite, again, here in Chapter 20.

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​​Job again must 'listen to his 'comforter, Zophar, the Naamathite, who we first heard from in Chapter 11, Post 9-AM, dated February 25, 2020; and Job's response in Posts 9-PM dated February 25, 2020; and Posts 10-AM/PM, dated February 27, 2020, Chapters 12-14. ] audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html 

1 'Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html 
2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.'
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3 'I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
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.
9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him'.

​10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.' audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html 

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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.
16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
18 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.
19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.'

​22 'In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
23 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. audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html 
24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him'.

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26 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.
27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.'

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

Post Script.

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​You do remember what God said about Job, right?​ 'There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.' [Job 1:1]

You may want to review the 'chapter', for we see what is going on, but, neither Job nor his friends have the privy of 'reading the Old Testament', as we see in 'hind-sight'.
[2 Timothy 3:16 audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html]

And yet, if we are 'biblically illiterate', and we seek 'advice' from those who do not 'know' and 'understand' 'God's Written Word', well we will be subject to what Job and his 'friends' were going through.  It is like letting the blind lead the blind.'  Matthew 15:14-16] audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html 

But, to Job's credit, he has not 'lost faith' in God. 'He knows that he will see his Redeemer in his flesh, for He lives. [Job 19:25] audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html There is more.  Please stay tuned!  Amen. Amen. ​