Job 20, sung word for word in more than 20 music styles, with the words on screen. Free. Choose a style and a voice to play it.
1 -Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
2 -“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.
3 -I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
4 -Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,
5 -the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
6 -Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
7 -he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
8 -He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
9 -The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
10 -His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
11 -The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
12 -Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,
13 -though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
14 -yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
15 -He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
16 -He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
17 -He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
18 -He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.
19 -For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
20 -Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.
21 -Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.
22 -In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.
23 -When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.
24 -Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.
25 -It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.
26 -Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
27 -The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
28 -The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.
29 -This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”
(Berean Standard Bible)
