Tua Palavra

Zophar Speaks

|Jó 20:1| Then Zophar the Naamathite ^a replied:

|Jó 20:2| This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer, because I am upset! ¹

|Jó 20:3| I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding ² makes me reply. ^b

|Jó 20:4| Don’t you know that ever since antiquity, from the time man was placed on earth,

|Jó 20:5| the joy of the wicked has been brief and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment? ^c

|Jó 20:6| Though his arrogance reaches heaven, and his head touches the clouds, ^d

|Jó 20:7| he will vanish forever like his own dung. Those who know ³ him will ask, “Where is he?” ^e

|Jó 20:8| He will fly away like a dream and never be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night. ^f

|Jó 20:9| The eye that saw him will see him no more, ^g and his household will no longer see him. ^h

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|Jó 20:10| His children will beg from ⁴ the poor, for his own hands must give back his wealth.