Job 20

1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,

And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says:

2 Doubtlesse my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.

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

3 I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.

I hear the discipline of my shame, And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer:

4 Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,

Have you known this from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

5 That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?

That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

6 Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,

Though his excellence goes up to the heavens, He strikes his head against a cloud—

7 Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?

He perishes as his own dung forever, His beholders say, Where [is] he?

8 He shall flee away as a dreame, and they shall not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,

He flees as a dream, and they do not find him, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

9 So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more.

The eye has not seen him, and does not add. And his place does not behold him again.

10 His children shall flatter the poore, and his hands shall restore his substance.

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

11 His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shall lie downe with him in the dust.

His bones have been full of his youth, and it lies down with him on the dust.

12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,

Though he sweetens evil in his mouth, hides it under his tongue,

13 And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,

has pity on it, and does not forsake it, and keeps it back in the midst of his palate,

14 Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.

his food is turned in his bowels, the bitterness of cobras [is] in his heart.

15 He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.

He has swallowed wealth, and vomits it. God drives it out from his belly.

16 He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.

He sucks [the] gall of cobras, the tongue of a viper slays him.

17 He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.

He does not look on streams, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.

18 He shall restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, and he shall enioy it no more.

He is giving back [what] he labored for, and does not consume [it]; As a bulwark [is] his exchange, and he does not exult.

19 For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.

For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, He has taken a house away violently, And he does not build it.

20 Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.

For he has not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he does not deliver himself.

21 There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shall hope for his goods.

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

22 When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him.

In the fullness of his sufficiency he is constricted. Every perverse hand meets him.

23 He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate.

It comes to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sends forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Indeed, He rains on him in his eating.

24 He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shall strike him through.

He flees from an iron weapon, A bow of bronze passes through him.

25 The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.

One has drawn, And it comes out from the body, And a glittering weapon proceeds from his gall. Terrors [are] on him.

26 All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed.

All darkness is hid for his treasures, A fire not blown consumes him, The remnant is broken in his tent.

27 The heauen shall declare his wickednes, and the earth shall rise vp against him.

The heavens reveal his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.

28 The increase of his house shall go away: it shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

The increase of his house is removed, Poured forth in a day of His anger.

29 This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage that he shall haue of God for his wordes.

This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.”