< Job 20 >
1 And he answered Zophar the Naamathite and he said.
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:
2 Therefore disquieting thoughts my they make respond me and in order to agitate I in me.
Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of mine agitation that is in me.
3 [the] correction of Insult my I have heard and a spirit from understanding my it answers me.
I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame, but out of my understanding my spirit answereth me.
4 ¿ This do you know from antiquity from when put humankind on earth.
Knowest thou not this of old time, since man was placed upon earth,
5 That [the] cry of joy of wicked [people] [is] from near and [the] gladness of [the] godless [is] until a moment.
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
6 Though it will go up to the heavens loftiness his and head his to the cloud[s] it will reach.
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
7 Like own dung his to perpetuity he will perish [those who] saw him they will say where [is]? he.
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; they that have seen him shall say: '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 shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of 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 which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10 Children his they will seek [the] favor of poor [people] and own hands his they will give back wealth his.
His children shall appease the poor, and his hands shall restore his wealth.
11 Bones his they were full (youthful vigor his *Q(K)*) and with him on [the] dust it will lie down.
His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
12 Though it is sweet in mouth his evil he hides it under tongue his.
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide 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 spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
14 Food his in inward parts his it is changed venom of cobras in inward part[s] his.
Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
15 Wealth he swallows and he has vomited up it from belly his he drives out it God.
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly.
16 [the] poison of Cobras he sucks it slays him [the] tongue of a viper.
He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.
17 May not he look on streams rivers of torrents of honey and curd.
He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and curd.
18 [he is] restoring [the] gain And not he swallows [it] according to [the] wealth of trading his not he will rejoice.
That which he laboured for shall he give back, and shall not swallow it down; according to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.
19 For he has crushed he has neglected poor [people] a house he has seized and not he had built it.
For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
20 For - not he knows quiet in belly his among desired [things] his not he delivers.
Because he knew no quietness within him, in his greed he suffered nought to escape,
21 There not [is] a survivor to devour he there-fore not it will endure prosperity his.
There was nothing left that he devoured not — therefore his prosperity shall 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 fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; the hand of every one that is in misery shall 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.
It shall be for the filling of his belly; He shall cast the fierceness of His wrath upon him, and shall cause it to rain upon him into his flesh.
24 He will flee from a weapon of iron it will cut through him a bow of bronze.
If he flee from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.
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.
He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall; terrors are upon 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.
All darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not blown by man shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tent.
27 They will reveal [the] heavens iniquity his and [the] earth [will] rise up to him.
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
28 It will depart [the] produce of house his torrents on [the] day of anger his.
The increase of his house shall depart, his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
29 This - [is the] portion of a person wicked from God and [the] inheritance of decree his from God.
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.