< Job 20 >

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
and to answer Zophar [the] Naamathite and to say
2 "Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in 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 the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
discipline shame my to hear: hear and spirit from understanding my to answer me
4 Do you not know this from old time, since humankind was placed on earth,
this to know from perpetuity from to set: put man upon land: country/planet
5 that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless 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 to the clouds,
if to ascend: rise to/for heaven loftiness his and head his to/for cloud to touch
7 yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who 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 shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like 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 no more, neither shall his place any more see him.
eye to see him and not to add: again and not still to see him place his
10 His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.
son: child his to accept poor and hand his to return: return strength his
11 His bones are full of his youth, but youth 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 is sweet in his mouth, though 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 will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
to spare upon her and not to leave: release her and to withhold her in/on/with midst palate his
14 yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
food his in/on/with belly his to overturn gall cobra in/on/with entrails: among his
15 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will 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 cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
poison cobra to suckle to kill him tongue viper
17 He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
not to see: see in/on/with stream river torrent: river honey and curd
18 That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
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 violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
for to crush to leave: neglect poor house: home to plunder and not to build him
20 "Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
for not to know at ease in/on/with belly: abdomen his in/on/with to desire his not to escape
21 There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
nothing survivor to/for to eat he upon so not be firm goodness his
22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on 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 is about to fill his belly, he will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
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 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.
to flee from weapon iron to pass him bow bronze
25 He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on 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. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which 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. 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. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.
to reveal: remove crops house: home his to pour in/on/with day face: anger his
29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God."
this portion man wicked from God and inheritance word his from God

< Job 20 >