Job 20
1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
and to answer Zophar [the] Naamathite and to say
2 “So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.
to/for so disquietings my to return: reply me and in/on/with for the sake of to hasten I in/on/with me
3 I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
discipline shame my to hear: hear and spirit from understanding my to answer me
4 Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,
this to know from perpetuity from to set: put man upon land: country/planet
5 the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
for triumphing wicked from near and joy profane till moment
6 Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
if to ascend: rise to/for heaven loftiness his and head his to/for cloud to touch
7 he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
like/as dung his to/for perpetuity to perish to see: see him to say where? he
8 He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
like/as dream to fly and not to find him and to wander like/as vision night
9 The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
eye to see him and not to add: again and not still to see him place his
10 His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
son: child his to accept poor and hand his to return: return strength his
11 The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
bone his to fill (youth his *Q(K)*) and with him upon dust to lie down: lay down
12 Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,
if be sweet in/on/with lip his distress: evil to hide her underneath: under tongue his
13 though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
to spare upon her and not to leave: release her and to withhold her in/on/with midst palate his
14 yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
food his in/on/with belly his to overturn gall cobra in/on/with entrails: among his
15 He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
strength: rich to swallow up and to vomit him from belly: abdomen his to possess: take him God
16 He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
poison cobra to suckle to kill him tongue viper
17 He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
not to see: see in/on/with stream river torrent: river honey and curd
18 He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.
to return: return toil and not to swallow up like/as strength: rich exchange his and not to rejoice
19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
for to crush to leave: neglect poor house: home to plunder and not to build him
20 Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.
for not to know at ease in/on/with belly: abdomen his in/on/with to desire his not to escape
21 Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.
nothing survivor to/for to eat he upon so not be firm goodness his
22 In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.
in/on/with to fill sufficiency his be distressed to/for him all hand labour(er) to come (in): come him
23 When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.
to be to/for to fill belly: abdomen his to send: depart in/on/with him burning anger face: anger his and to rain upon them in/on/with intestine his
24 Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.
to flee from weapon iron to pass him bow bronze
25 It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.
to draw and to come out: come from back and lightning from gall his to go: come upon him terror
26 Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
all darkness to hide to/for to treasure his to eat him fire not to breathe be evil survivor in/on/with tent his
27 The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
to reveal: reveal heaven iniquity: crime his and land: country/planet to arise: attack to/for him
28 The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.
to reveal: remove crops house: home his to pour in/on/with day face: anger his
29 This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”
this portion man wicked from God and inheritance word his from God
