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Job 20
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
2For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.
2Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.
3I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.
3I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.
4Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,
4Knowest thou [not] this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?
5The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?
6Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;
6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,
7Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
7Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
8He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.
8He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.
9The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.
9The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.
10His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.
10His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.
11His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.
11His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
12Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;
12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth [and] he hide it under his tongue,
13Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;
13[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,
14His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
14His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.
15He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
15He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again:God shall cast them out of his belly.
16He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
16He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.
17Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.
17He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.
18He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice [therein].
19Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
19For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.
20There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.
20Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.
21He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.
21Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
22Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.
22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.
23God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
23It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.
24He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;
24If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.
25He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.
25He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
26All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.
26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.
27The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.
27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.