Job 20
1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,
Then responded Zophar the Naamathite, and said: —
2 Doubtlesse my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.
Not so, do my thoughts answer me, and to this end, is my haste within me:
3 I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.
The correction meant to confound me, I must hear, but, the spirit—out of my understanding, will give me a reply.
4 Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,
Knowest thou, this—from antiquity, from the placing of man upon earth: —
5 That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?
That, the joy-shout of the lawless, is short, and, the rejoicing of the impious, for a moment?
6 Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,
Though his elevation mount up to the heavens, and, his head, to the clouds, doth reach,
7 Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?
Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall 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,
Like a dream, shall he fly away, and they shall not find him, yea he shall be chased 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 that hath scanned him, shall not do it again, neither, any more, shall his place behold him:
10 His children shall flatter the poore, and his hands shall restore his substance.
His children, shall seek the favour of the poor, and, his own hand, shall 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, are full of youthful vigour, yet, with him—in the dust, shall it lie down.
12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,
Though, a sweet taste in his mouth, be given by vice, though he hide it under his tongue;
13 And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,
Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but retain it in the midst of his mouth,
14 Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.
His food, in his stomach, is changed, the gall of adders, within him!
15 He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.
Wealth, hath he swallowed, and hath vomited the same, Out of his belly, shall, GOD, drive it forth:
16 He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.
The poison of adders, shall he suck, The tongue of the viper shall slay him;
17 He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.
Let him not see in the channels the flowings of torrents of honey and milk.
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.
In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult!
19 For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.
For he hath oppressed—hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild.
20 Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.
Surely he hath known no peace in his inmost mind, —With his dearest thing, shall he not get away:
21 There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shall hope for his goods.
Nothing escaped his devouring greed, —For this cause, shall his prosperity not continue:
22 When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him.
When his abundance is gone, he shall be in straits, All the power of distress, shall come upon 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 shall be that, to fill his belly, he will thrust at him the glow of his anger, and rain [it] upon him for his punishment.
24 He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shall strike him through.
He shall flee from the armour of iron, —There shall pierce him, a bow of bronze!
25 The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.
He hath drawn it out, and it hath come forth out of his back, —yea the flashing arrow-head, out of his gall, There shall march on him—terrors:
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.
Every misfortune, is laid up for his treasures, —There shall consume, a fire, not blown up, —it shall destroy what remaineth in his tent:
27 The heauen shall declare his wickednes, and the earth shall rise vp against him.
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and, the earth, be rising up 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 shall vanish, melting away in the 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 the lawless man, from God, and the inheritance decreed him from the Mighty One.
