< Job 20 >
1 And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
And he answered Zophar the Naamathite and he said.
2 Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.
Therefore disquieting thoughts my they make respond me and in order to agitate I in me.
3 I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.
[the] correction of Insult my I have heard and a spirit from understanding my it answers me.
4 Knowest thou [not] this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,
¿ This do you know from antiquity from when put humankind on earth.
5 The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?
That [the] cry of joy of wicked [people] [is] from near and [the] gladness of [the] godless [is] until a moment.
6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,
Though it will go up to the heavens loftiness his and head his to the cloud[s] it will reach.
7 Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Like own dung his to perpetuity he will perish [those who] saw him they will say where [is]? he.
8 He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.
Like a dream he will fly away and not people will find him and he may be chased away like a vision of [the] night.
9 The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.
An eye it caught sight of him and not it will repeat and not again it will see him place his.
10 His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.
Children his they will seek [the] favor of poor [people] and own hands his they will give back wealth his.
11 His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Bones his they were full (youthful vigor his *Q(K)*) and with him on [the] dust it will lie down.
12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth [and] he hide it under his tongue,
Though it is sweet in mouth his evil he hides it under tongue his.
13 [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,
He spares it and not he lets loose it and he withholds it in [the] midst of mouth his.
14 His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.
Food his in inward parts his it is changed venom of cobras in inward part[s] his.
15 He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Wealth he swallows and he has vomited up it from belly his he drives out it God.
16 He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.
[the] poison of Cobras he sucks it slays him [the] tongue of a viper.
17 He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.
May not he look on streams rivers of torrents of honey and curd.
18 That 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].
[he is] restoring [the] gain And not he swallows [it] according to [the] wealth of trading his not he will rejoice.
19 For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.
For he has crushed he has neglected poor [people] a house he has seized and not he had built it.
20 Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.
For - not he knows quiet in belly his among desired [things] his not he delivers.
21 Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
There not [is] a survivor to devour he there-fore not it will endure prosperity his.
22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.
When is full sufficiency his it will be distress to him every hand of a sufferer it will come to him.
23 It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.
May he be - [about] to fill belly his he will send on him [the] burning of anger his and he will send rain on him in bowel[s] his.
24 If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.
He will flee from a weapon of iron it will cut through him a bow of bronze.
25 He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
He will draw [it] out and it came out from [the] back and lightning from gall-bladder his it will come on him terrors.
26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.
All darkness [is] hidden for treasured [things] his it will consume him fire [which] not it has been fanned it will be evil a survivor in tent his.
27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
They will reveal [the] heavens iniquity his and [the] earth [will] rise up to him.
28 The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger.
It will depart [the] produce of house his torrents on [the] day of anger his.
29 This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.
This - [is the] portion of a person wicked from God and [the] inheritance of decree his from God.