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The Book of Job, Chapter 20, Verse 8

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[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?
King James Version
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
American Standard Version
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
New English Translation
Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.
World English Bible
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
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The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
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His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
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His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
12
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;
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[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
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[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.
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He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
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He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
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He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
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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].