Job 20:1  Zophar from Naamath again took his turn:

Job 20:2  "I can't believe what I'm hearing! You've put my teeth on edge, my stomach in a knot.

Job 20:3  How dare you insult my intelligence like this! Well, here's a piece of my mind!

Job 20:4  "Don't you even know the basics, how things have been since the earliest days, when Adam and Eve were first placed on earth?

Job 20:5  The good times of the wicked are short-lived; godless joy is only momentary.

Job 20:6  The evil might become world famous, strutting at the head of the celebrity parade,

Job 20:7  But still end up in a pile of dung. Acquaintances look at them with disgust and say, 'What's that?'

Job 20:8  They fly off like a dream that can't be remembered, like a shadowy illusion that vanishes in the light.

Job 20:9  Though once notorious public figures, now they're nobodies, unnoticed, whether they come or go.

Job 20:10  Their children will go begging on skid row, and they'll have to give back their ill-gotten gain.

Job 20:11  Right in the prime of life, and youthful and vigorous, they'll die.

Job 20:12  "They savor evil as a delicacy, roll it around on their tongues,

Job 20:13  Prolong the flavor, a dalliance in decadence-- real gourmets of evil!

Job 20:14  But then they get stomach cramps, a bad case of food poisoning.

Job 20:15  They gag on all that rich food; God makes them vomit it up.

Job 20:16  They gorge on evil, make a diet of that poison-- a deadly diet--and it kills them.

Job 20:17  No quiet picnics for them beside gentle streams with fresh-baked bread and cheese, and tall, cool drinks.

Job 20:18  They spit out their food half-chewed, unable to relax and enjoy anything they've worked for.

Job 20:19  And why? Because they exploited the poor, took what never belonged to them.

Job 20:20  "Such God-denying people are never content with what they have or who they are; their greed drives them relentlessly.

Job 20:21  They plunder everything but they can't hold on to any of it.

Job 20:22  Just when they think they have it all, disaster strikes; they're served up a plate full of misery.

Job 20:23  When they've filled their bellies with that, God gives them a taste of his anger, and they get to chew on that for a while.

Job 20:24  As they run for their lives from one disaster, they run smack into another.

Job 20:25  They're knocked around from pillar to post, beaten to within an inch of their lives. They're trapped in a house of horrors,

Job 20:26  and see their loot disappear down a black hole. Their lives are a total loss-- not a penny to their name, not so much as a bean.

Job 20:27  God will strip them of their sin-soaked clothes and hang their dirty laundry out for all to see.

Job 20:28  Life is a complete wipeout for them, nothing surviving God's wrath.

Job 20:29  There! That's God's blueprint for the wicked-- what they have to look forward to."