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moment.", "citation": "Job 20:5 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 6, "text": "If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:", "citation": "Job 20:6 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 7, "text": "In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?", "citation": "Job 20:7 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 8, "text": "As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:", "citation": "Job 20:8 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 9, "text": "The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.", "citation": "Job 20:9 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 10, "text": "His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.", "citation": "Job 20:10 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 11, "text": "His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.", "citation": "Job 20:11 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 12, "text": "For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.", "citation": "Job 20:12 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 13, "text": "He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.", "citation": "Job 20:13 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 14, "text": "His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him,", "citation": "Job 20:14 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 15, "text": "The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.", "citation": "Job 20:15 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 16, "text": "He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.", "citation": "Job 20:16 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 17, "text": "Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.", "citation": "Job 20:17 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 18, "text": "He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.", "citation": "Job 20:18 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 19, "text": "Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.", "citation": "Job 20:19 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 20, "text": "And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them.", "citation": "Job 20:20 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 21, "text": "There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:", "citation": "Job 20:21 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 22, "text": "When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.", "citation": "Job 20:22 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 23, "text": "May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.", "citation": "Job 20:23 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 24, "text": "He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.", "citation": "Job 20:24 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 25, "text": "The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon him.", "citation": "Job 20:25 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 26, "text": "All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle.", "citation": "Job 20:26 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 27, "text": "The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.", "citation": "Job 20:27 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 28, "text": "The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath.", "citation": "Job 20:28 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 29, "text": "This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.", "citation": "Job 20:29 (Douay-Rheims)" } ] }