< Job 20 >
1 And he answered Zophar the Naamathite and he said.
Then answered Zophar the Na'amathite, and said,
2 Therefore disquieting thoughts my they make respond me and in order to agitate I in me.
Even therefore do my inmost thoughts give me an answer, and for this reason do I feel a strong excitement within me.
3 [the] correction of Insult my I have heard and a spirit from understanding my it answers me.
Reproof which casteth shame on me must I hear; yet out of my understanding will the spirit give me an answer.
4 ¿ This do you know from antiquity from when put humankind on earth.
Dost thou know this? from the very beginning of things, from the very time when man was placed upon earth it was,
5 That [the] cry of joy of wicked [people] [is] from near and [the] gladness of [the] godless [is] until a moment.
That the triumphal shouting of the wicked is ever of but a recent date, and the joy of the hypocrite endureth only 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 exaltation should mount up to the heavens, and his head should 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 when he but turneth round will he vanish for ever; those who have seen him will 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.
Like a dream will he fly away, and men will find him no more; yea, he will be chased away like 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.
If an eye have surveyed him, it will not do so again, and it will not behold him any more in his place.
10 Children his they will seek [the] favor of poor [people] and own hands his they will give back wealth his.
His children will suffer oppression from the indigent, and his hands will have to restore his [ill-gotten] wealth.
11 Bones his they were full (youthful vigor his *Q(K)*) and with him on [the] dust it will lie down.
[Now] his bones are full of his youthful vigor; but it will [suddenly] lie down with him in the dust.
12 Though it is sweet in mouth his evil he hides it under tongue his.
If the evil be sweet in his mouth, he will conceal it under his tongue;
13 He spares it and not he lets loose it and he withholds it in [the] midst of mouth his.
He will cherish it, and not forsake it; and hold it back within his palate;
14 Food his in inward parts his it is changed venom of cobras in inward part[s] his.
His food is thus changed within his bowels, and becometh the venom of asps within him.
15 Wealth he swallows and he has vomited up it from belly his he drives out it God.
The wealth which he hath swallowed, will he have to vomit up again; God will drive it out of his belly.
16 [the] poison of Cobras he sucks it slays him [the] tongue of a viper.
The poison of asps will he have to suck; the viper's tongue will slay him.
17 May not he look on streams rivers of torrents of honey and curd.
He shall not look with pleasure on streams, on flowing brooks of 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 restoreth what he hath labored for, and will not swallow it down; however much he may have obtained by toil, he will not have any joy of it.
19 For he has crushed he has neglected poor [people] a house he has seized and not he had built it.
Because he oppressed and forsook the indigent; because he took violently away a house, shall he not rebuild it;
20 For - not he knows quiet in belly his among desired [things] his not he delivers.
Because he knew not quietness in his bosom, shall he not escape through what is the most precious to him.
21 There not [is] a survivor to devour he there-fore not it will endure prosperity his.
Nothing was spared from his craving to eat: therefore shall his wealth not prosper.
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 abundance will distress assail him: every hand of [those he] troubled will come against 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.
In order to fill his belly, [God] will send out against him the fury of his wrath, and will rain it upon him for his eating.
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 brazen bow will 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, and it cometh out of the body; yea, out of his gall the glittering [arrow] cometh forth: over him come the terrors [of death].
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.
Entire darkness is laid by for his treasures: a fire not urged by blowing will consume him; it will destroy any one that is left in his tent.
27 They will reveal [the] heavens iniquity his and [the] earth [will] rise up to him.
The heavens will lay open his iniquity; and the earth will raise herself up against him.
28 It will depart [the] produce of house his torrents on [the] day of anger his.
The product of his house will be banished, flowing away on 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 his decreed heritage from God.