Job 20
1 And he answered Zophar the Naamathite and he said.
And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says:
2 Therefore disquieting thoughts my they make respond me and in order to agitate I in me.
“Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.
3 [the] correction of Insult my I have heard and a spirit from understanding my it answers me.
I hear the discipline of my shame, And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer:
4 ¿ This do you know from antiquity from when put humankind on earth.
Have you known this from antiquity? Since the placing of man on 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 singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane 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 excellence goes up to the heavens, He strikes his head against a cloud—
7 Like own dung his to perpetuity he will perish [those who] saw him they will say where [is]? he.
He perishes as his own dung forever, His beholders 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 flees as a dream, and they do not find him, And he is driven 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 has not seen him, and does not add. And his place does not behold him again.
10 Children his they will seek [the] favor of poor [people] and own hands his they will give back wealth his.
His sons oppress the poor, And his hands give back 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 have been full of his youth, and it lies down with him on the dust.
12 Though it is sweet in mouth his evil he hides it under tongue his.
Though he sweetens evil in his mouth, hides it under his tongue,
13 He spares it and not he lets loose it and he withholds it in [the] midst of mouth his.
has pity on it, and does not forsake it, and keeps it back in the midst of his palate,
14 Food his in inward parts his it is changed venom of cobras in inward part[s] his.
his food is turned in his bowels, the bitterness of cobras [is] in his heart.
15 Wealth he swallows and he has vomited up it from belly his he drives out it God.
He has swallowed wealth, and vomits it. God drives it out from his belly.
16 [the] poison of Cobras he sucks it slays him [the] tongue of a viper.
He sucks [the] gall of cobras, the tongue of a viper slays him.
17 May not he look on streams rivers of torrents of honey and curd.
He does not look on streams, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.
18 [he is] restoring [the] gain And not he swallows [it] according to [the] wealth of trading his not he will rejoice.
He is giving back [what] he labored for, and does not consume [it]; As a bulwark [is] his exchange, and he does not exult.
19 For he has crushed he has neglected poor [people] a house he has seized and not he had built it.
For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, He has taken a house away violently, And he does not build it.
20 For - not he knows quiet in belly his among desired [things] his not he delivers.
For he has not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he does not deliver himself.
21 There not [is] a survivor to devour he there-fore not it will endure prosperity his.
There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good does not stay.
22 When is full sufficiency his it will be distress to him every hand of a sufferer it will come to him.
In the fullness of his sufficiency he is constricted. Every perverse hand meets 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 comes to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sends forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Indeed, He rains on him in his eating.
24 He will flee from a weapon of iron it will cut through him a bow of bronze.
He flees from an iron weapon, A bow of bronze passes through 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.
One has drawn, And it comes out from the body, And a glittering weapon proceeds from his gall. Terrors [are] on 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 hid for his treasures, A fire not blown consumes him, The remnant is broken in his tent.
27 They will reveal [the] heavens iniquity his and [the] earth [will] rise up to him.
The heavens reveal his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.
28 It will depart [the] produce of house his torrents on [the] day of anger his.
The increase of his house is removed, Poured forth in a day of His anger.
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 an inheritance appointed him by God.”
