Job 20
1 and to answer Zophar [the] Naamathite and to say
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2 to/for so disquietings my to return: reply me and in/on/with for the sake of to hasten I in/on/with me
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make haste.
3 discipline shame my to hear: hear and spirit from understanding my to answer me
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
4 this to know from perpetuity from to set: put man upon land: country/planet
Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5 for triumphing wicked from near and joy profane till moment
That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?
6 if to ascend: rise to/for heaven loftiness his and head his to/for cloud to touch
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
7 like/as dung his to/for perpetuity to perish to see: see him to say where? he
[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?
8 like/as dream to fly and not to find him and to wander like/as vision 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 eye to see him and not to add: again and not still to see him place his
The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10 son: child his to accept poor and hand his to return: return strength his
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
11 bone his to fill (youth his *Q(K)*) and with him upon dust to lie down: lay down
His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
12 if be sweet in/on/with lip his distress: evil to hide her underneath: under tongue his
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;
13 to spare upon her and not to leave: release her and to withhold her in/on/with midst palate his
[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
14 food his in/on/with belly his to overturn gall cobra in/on/with entrails: among his
[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.
15 strength: rich to swallow up and to vomit him from belly: abdomen his to possess: take him God
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16 poison cobra to suckle to kill him tongue viper
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
17 not to see: see in/on/with stream river torrent: river honey and curd
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
18 to return: return toil and not to swallow up like/as strength: rich exchange his and not to rejoice
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein].
19 for to crush to leave: neglect poor house: home to plunder and not to build him
Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
20 for not to know at ease in/on/with belly: abdomen his in/on/with to desire his not to escape
Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
21 nothing survivor to/for to eat he upon so not be firm goodness his
There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
22 in/on/with to fill sufficiency his be distressed to/for him all hand labour(er) to come (in): come him
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
23 to be to/for to fill belly: abdomen his to send: depart in/on/with him burning anger face: anger his and to rain upon them in/on/with intestine his
[When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating.
24 to flee from weapon iron to pass him bow bronze
He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of steel shall strike him through.
25 to draw and to come out: come from back and lightning from gall his to go: come upon him terror
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him.
26 all darkness to hide to/for to treasure his to eat him fire not to breathe be evil survivor in/on/with tent his
All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
27 to reveal: reveal heaven iniquity: crime his and land: country/planet to arise: attack to/for him
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
28 to reveal: remove crops house: home his to pour in/on/with day face: anger his
The increase of his house shall depart, [and his goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
29 this portion man wicked from God and inheritance word his from God
This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
