Job 20

1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

1And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --

1Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:

2Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.

2Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.

2Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.

3I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.

3The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:

3The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.

4Knowest thou notthis of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,

4This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

4This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,

5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?

5That the singing of the wicked <FI>is<Fi> short, And the joy of the profane 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;

6Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike--

6If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:

7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?

7As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where <FI>is<Fi> he?'

7In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?

8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

8As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven 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 no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.

9The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.

9The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.

10His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his hands shall give back his wealth.

10His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.

10His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.

11His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.

11His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.

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, Though he hide it under his tongue,

12Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,

12For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.

13Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;

13Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,

13He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.

14Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.

14His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps <FI>is<Fi> in his heart.

14His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him,

15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.

15Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.

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 slay him.

16Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.

16He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.

17He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

17He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.

17Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.

18That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.

18He is giving back <FI>what<Fi> he laboured for, And doth not consume <FI>it<Fi> ; As a bulwark <FI>is<Fi> his exchange, and he exults not.

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 and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

19For he oppressed--he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

19Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

20Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.

20For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.

20And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them.

21There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

21There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.

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: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.

22In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

22When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.

23When he is about to fill his belly, Godwill cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating.

23It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.

23May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.

24He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through.

24He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.

24He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.

25He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.

25One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him <FI>are<Fi> terrors.

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 by man shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

26All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant 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.

27Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.

27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

28The increase of his house shall depart; His goodsshall flow away in the day of his wrath.

28Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.

28The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath.

29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the heritage appointed unto him by God.

29This <FI>is<Fi> the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.

29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.