< Job 20 >
1 And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
and to answer Zophar [the] Naamathite and to say
2 Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste 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 hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.
discipline shame my to hear: hear and spirit from understanding my to answer me
4 Knowest thou [not] this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,
this to know from perpetuity from to set: put man upon land: country/planet
5 The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?
for triumphing wicked from near and joy profane till moment
6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,
if to ascend: rise to/for heaven loftiness his and head his to/for cloud to touch
7 Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
like/as dung his to/for perpetuity to perish to see: see him to say where? he
8 He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.
like/as dream to fly and not to find him and to wander like/as vision night
9 The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.
eye to see him and not to add: again and not still to see him place his
10 His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.
son: child his to accept poor and hand his to return: return strength his
11 His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall 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 wickedness be sweet in his mouth [and] he hide it under his tongue,
if be sweet in/on/with lip his distress: evil to hide her underneath: under tongue his
13 [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,
to spare upon her and not to leave: release her and to withhold her in/on/with midst palate his
14 His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.
food his in/on/with belly his to overturn gall cobra in/on/with entrails: among his
15 He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
strength: rich to swallow up and to vomit him from belly: abdomen his to possess: take him God
16 He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.
poison cobra to suckle to kill him tongue viper
17 He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.
not to see: see in/on/with stream river torrent: river 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].
to return: return toil and not to swallow up like/as strength: rich exchange his and not to rejoice
19 For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.
for to crush to leave: neglect poor house: home to plunder and not to build him
20 Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.
for not to know at ease in/on/with belly: abdomen his in/on/with to desire his not to escape
21 Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
nothing survivor to/for to eat he upon so not be firm goodness his
22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall 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 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.
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 If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.
to flee from weapon iron to pass him bow bronze
25 He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
to draw and to come out: come from back and lightning from gall his to go: come upon him terror
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 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 shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
to reveal: reveal heaven iniquity: crime his and land: country/planet to arise: attack to/for him
28 The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger.
to reveal: remove crops house: home his to pour in/on/with day face: anger his
29 This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.
this portion man wicked from God and inheritance word his from God