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Job 20
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
2Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.
2Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.
3I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.
3The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.
4Knowest thou [not] this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,
4This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,
5The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?
5That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,
6If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:
7Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
7In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?
8He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.
8As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:
9The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.
9The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.
10His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.
10His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.
11His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
11His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.
12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth [and] he hide it under his tongue,
12For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
13[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,
13He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.
14His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.
14His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him,
15He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again:God shall cast them out of his belly.
15The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.
16He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.
16He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.
17He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.
17Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.
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].
18He 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.
19For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.
19Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.
20Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.
20And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them.
21Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
21There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:
22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.
22When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.
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.
23May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.
24If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.
24He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.
25He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
25The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon him.
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.
26All 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.
27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.