< Job 20 >
1 And he answered Zophar the Naamathite and he said.
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
2 Therefore disquieting thoughts my they make respond me and in order to agitate I in me.
“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.
3 [the] correction of Insult my I have heard and a spirit from understanding my it answers me.
I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
4 ¿ This do you know from antiquity from when put humankind on earth.
Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,
5 That [the] cry of joy of wicked [people] [is] from near and [the] gladness of [the] godless [is] until a moment.
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
6 Though it will go up to the heavens loftiness his and head his to the cloud[s] it will reach.
Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
7 Like own dung his to perpetuity he will perish [those who] saw him they will say where [is]? he.
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
8 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.
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
9 An eye it caught sight of him and not it will repeat and not again it will see him place his.
The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
10 Children his they will seek [the] favor of poor [people] and own hands his they will give back wealth his.
His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
11 Bones his they were full (youthful vigor his *Q(K)*) and with him on [the] dust it will lie down.
The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
12 Though it is sweet in mouth his evil he hides it under tongue his.
Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,
13 He spares it and not he lets loose it and he withholds it in [the] midst of mouth his.
though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
14 Food his in inward parts his it is changed venom of cobras in inward part[s] his.
yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
15 Wealth he swallows and he has vomited up it from belly his he drives out it God.
He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
16 [the] poison of Cobras he sucks it slays him [the] tongue of a viper.
He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
17 May not he look on streams rivers of torrents of honey and curd.
He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
18 [he is] restoring [the] gain And not he swallows [it] according to [the] wealth of trading his not he will rejoice.
He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.
19 For he has crushed he has neglected poor [people] a house he has seized and not he had built it.
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
20 For - not he knows quiet in belly his among desired [things] his not he delivers.
Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.
21 There not [is] a survivor to devour he there-fore not it will endure prosperity his.
Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.
22 When is full sufficiency his it will be distress to him every hand of a sufferer it will come to him.
In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.
23 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.
When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.
24 He will flee from a weapon of iron it will cut through him a bow of bronze.
Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.
25 He will draw [it] out and it came out from [the] back and lightning from gall-bladder his it will come on him terrors.
It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.
26 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.
Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
27 They will reveal [the] heavens iniquity his and [the] earth [will] rise up to him.
The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
28 It will depart [the] produce of house his torrents on [the] day of anger his.
The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.
29 This - [is the] portion of a person wicked from God and [the] inheritance of decree his from God.
This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”