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Job Chapter 20

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Job

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In this chapter God commands Job to go to the city of Dothan where merchants are having a feast. He is told to bring his silver and gold to the merchants. The scene highlights God's sovereignty over the trials that Job faces.

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(1) Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
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Job 2:11Job 11:1Job 42:9

(2) Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
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Job 20:3Job 4:2Job 13:19Job 32:13Job 32:14Job 32:15Job 32:16Job 32:17Job 32:18Job 32:19Job 32:20Psalms 39:2

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Isaiah 59:7

(3) I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
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Job 19:29Job 20:2Job 27:11Job 33:3Psalms 49:3Psalms 78:2Psalms 78:3Psalms 78:4Psalms 78:5

(4) Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
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Job 8:8Job 8:9Job 15:10Job 32:7Genesis 1:28Genesis 9:1Genesis 9:2Genesis 9:3Psalms 115:16

(5) That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
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Job 5:3Job 15:29Job 15:30Job 15:31Job 15:32Job 15:33Job 15:34Job 18:5Job 18:6Job 27:13Job 27:14Job 27:15

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Isaiah 9:3

(6) Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
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Genesis 11:4Isaiah 14:13Isaiah 14:14Daniel 4:11Daniel 4:22Amos 9:2Obadiah 1:3Obadiah 1:4Matthew 11:23

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Psalms 148:4Exodus 19:20Jeremiah 51:53Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8

(7) Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
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I Kings 14:10II Kings 9:37Psalms 83:10Jeremiah 8:2Job 14:10

(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.
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Psalms 73:20Psalms 18:10Psalms 90:5Isaiah 29:7Isaiah 29:8

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Genesis 40:5Genesis 41:11Job 33:15Isaiah 29:7Ezekiel 43:3

(9) The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
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Job 20:7Job 7:8Job 7:10Job 8:18Job 27:3Psalms 37:10Psalms 37:36Psalms 103:15Psalms 103:16

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Luke 6:42Deuteronomy 19:21Luke 11:34

(10) His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
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Proverbs 28:3Psalms 109:10Job 20:18Exodus 12:36Exodus 22:1Exodus 22:3Exodus 9:2II Samuel 12:6Proverbs 6:31Luke 19:8

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Luke 19:8Zephaniah 2:3

(11) His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
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Job 13:26Job 19:20Psalms 25:7Proverbs 5:11Proverbs 5:12Proverbs 5:13Proverbs 5:22Proverbs 5:23Ezekiel 32:27Job 21:26Proverbs 14:32Ezekiel 24:13

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Jeremiah 8:1II Samuel 21:13II Kings 23:18

(12) Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
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Job 15:16Genesis 3:6Proverbs 9:17Proverbs 9:18Proverbs 20:17Ecclesiastes 11:9Psalms 10:7Psalms 109:17Psalms 109:18

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Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8Jeremiah 44:9Amos 9:3Joshua 17:18

(13) Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
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Matthew 5:29Matthew 5:30Mark 9:43Mark 9:44Mark 9:45Mark 9:46Mark 9:47Mark 9:48Mark 9:49Romans 8:13

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Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8

(14) Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
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II Samuel 11:2II Samuel 11:3II Samuel 11:4II Samuel 11:5II Samuel 12:10II Samuel 12:11Psalms 32:3Psalms 32:4Psalms 38:1Psalms 38:2Psalms 38:3Psalms 38:4

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II Kings 16:15Lamentations 1:20

(15) He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
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Proverbs 23:8Matthew 27:3Matthew 27:4

(16) He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
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Romans 3:13Isaiah 30:6Matthew 3:7Acts 28:3Acts 28:4Acts 28:5Acts 28:6

(17) He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
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Numbers 14:23II Kings 7:2Jeremiah 17:6Jeremiah 17:7Jeremiah 17:8Luke 16:24Psalms 36:8Psalms 36:9Isaiah 41:17Revelation 22:1Deuteronomy 32:13Deuteronomy 32:14

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Isaiah 7:22Ezekiel 29:4Psalms 93:3Isaiah 19:7

(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.
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Job 20:10Job 20:15Job 20:5Proverbs 1:12Jeremiah 51:34Jeremiah 51:44Lamentations 2:16Hosea 8:7Hosea 8:8Amos 8:4Matthew 23:14Matthew 23:24

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Philippians 1:18Revelation 10:6

(19) Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
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Job 21:27Job 21:28Job 22:6Job 24:2Job 24:3Job 24:4Job 24:5Job 24:6Job 24:7Job 24:8Job 24:9Job 24:10

(20) Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
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Ecclesiastes 5:13Ecclesiastes 5:14Isaiah 57:20Isaiah 57:21

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Jeremiah 44:25

(21) There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
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Job 18:19Jeremiah 17:11Luke 16:24Luke 16:25

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II Kings 16:15

(22) In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
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Job 15:29Job 18:7Psalms 39:5Ecclesiastes 2:18Ecclesiastes 2:19Ecclesiastes 2:20Revelation 18:7Job 1:15Job 1:17Job 16:11II Kings 24:2Isaiah 10:6

(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.
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Numbers 11:33Psalms 78:30Psalms 78:31Malachi 2:2Luke 12:17Luke 12:18Luke 12:19Luke 12:20Genesis 19:24Exodus 9:23Psalms 11:6Isaiah 21:4

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Joel 2:23Deuteronomy 11:14Amos 4:7Zechariah 10:1

(24) He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
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I Kings 20:30Isaiah 24:18Jeremiah 48:43Jeremiah 48:44Amos 5:19Amos 9:1Amos 9:2Amos 9:3II Samuel 22:35Proverbs 7:23

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Jeremiah 15:12Daniel 2:40Daniel 2:41

(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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Job 16:13Deuteronomy 32:41II Samuel 18:14Psalms 7:12Job 6:4Job 15:21Job 18:11Job 27:20Psalms 73:19Psalms 88:15Jeremiah 20:3Jeremiah 20:4

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Proverbs 1:27I Kings 14:5II Kings 11:8II Chronicles 23:7Psalms 96:13Proverbs 11:2

(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.
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Job 18:5Job 18:6Isaiah 8:22Matthew 8:12Jude 1:13Psalms 21:9Psalms 120:4Isaiah 30:33Matthew 3:12Job 18:19Psalms 109:9Psalms 109:10

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Job 10:22Isaiah 45:3Matthew 6:23I John 2:11Psalms 10:8Zechariah 14:12

(27) The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
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Psalms 44:20Psalms 44:21Jeremiah 29:23Malachi 3:5Luke 12:2Luke 12:3Romans 2:16I Corinthians 4:5Job 16:18Job 18:18Isaiah 26:21

(28) The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
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Job 20:10Job 20:18Job 20:19Job 20:20Job 20:21Job 20:22Job 5:5Job 27:14Job 27:15Job 27:16Job 27:17Job 27:18

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Lamentations 4:15

(29) This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
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Job 18:21Job 27:13Job 31:2Job 31:3Deuteronomy 29:20Deuteronomy 29:21Deuteronomy 29:22Deuteronomy 29:23Deuteronomy 29:24Deuteronomy 29:25Deuteronomy 29:26Deuteronomy 29:27

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Ezekiel 45:7

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