Job 20
1 And he answered Zophar the Naamathite and he said.
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
2 Therefore disquieting thoughts my they make respond me and in order to agitate I in me.
“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste 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 puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
4 ¿ This do you know from antiquity from when put humankind on earth.
Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed 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 triumphing of the wicked is short, 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 height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
7 Like own dung his to perpetuity he will perish [those who] saw him they will say where [is]? he.
yet he will perish forever like his own dung. 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.
He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, 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.
The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.
10 Children his they will seek [the] favor of poor [people] and own hands his they will give back wealth his.
His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will 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 are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.
12 Though it is sweet in mouth his evil he hides it under tongue his.
“Though wickedness is 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 cobra venom within him.
15 Wealth he swallows and he has vomited up it from belly his he drives out it God.
He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
16 [the] poison of Cobras he sucks it slays him [the] tongue of a viper.
He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
17 May not he look on streams rivers of torrents of honey and curd.
He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams 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 will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
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 violently taken away a house, and he will 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, he will not save anything of that in which he delights.
21 There not [is] a survivor to devour he there-fore not it will endure prosperity his.
There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore 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 fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on 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 is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
24 He will flee from a weapon of iron it will cut through him a bow of bronze.
He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow 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 draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. 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 laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.
27 They will reveal [the] heavens iniquity his and [the] earth [will] rise up to him.
The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will 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 will depart. They will rush 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, the heritage appointed to him by God.”
