Job 20
1 and to answer Zophar [the] Naamathite and to say
And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says:
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 my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.
3 discipline shame my to hear: hear and spirit from understanding my to answer me
I hear the discipline of my shame, And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer:
4 this to know from perpetuity from to set: put man upon land: country/planet
Have you known this from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?
5 for triumphing wicked from near and joy profane till moment
That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,
6 if to ascend: rise to/for heaven loftiness his and head his to/for cloud to touch
Though his excellence goes up to the heavens, He strikes his head against a cloud—
7 like/as dung his to/for perpetuity to perish to see: see him to say where? he
He perishes as his own dung forever, His beholders say, Where [is] he?
8 like/as dream to fly and not to find him and to wander like/as vision night
He flees as a dream, and they do not find him, And he is driven 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 has not seen him, and does not add. And his place does not behold him again.
10 son: child his to accept poor and hand his to return: return strength his
His sons oppress the poor, And his hands give back his wealth.
11 bone his to fill (youth his *Q(K)*) and with him upon dust to lie down: lay down
His bones have been full of his youth, and it lies down with him on the dust.
12 if be sweet in/on/with lip his distress: evil to hide her underneath: under tongue his
Though he sweetens evil in his mouth, hides 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
has pity on it, and does not forsake it, and keeps it back in the midst of his palate,
14 food his in/on/with belly his to overturn gall cobra in/on/with entrails: among his
his food is turned in his bowels, the bitterness of cobras [is] in his heart.
15 strength: rich to swallow up and to vomit him from belly: abdomen his to possess: take him God
He has swallowed wealth, and vomits it. God drives it out from his belly.
16 poison cobra to suckle to kill him tongue viper
He sucks [the] gall of cobras, the tongue of a viper slays him.
17 not to see: see in/on/with stream river torrent: river honey and curd
He does not look on streams, Flowing of 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
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 to crush to leave: neglect poor house: home to plunder and not to build him
For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, He has taken a house away violently, And he does not build it.
20 for not to know at ease in/on/with belly: abdomen his in/on/with to desire his not to escape
For he has not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he does not deliver himself.
21 nothing survivor to/for to eat he upon so not be firm goodness his
There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good does not stay.
22 in/on/with to fill sufficiency his be distressed to/for him all hand labour(er) to come (in): come him
In the fullness of his sufficiency he is constricted. Every perverse hand meets 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
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 to flee from weapon iron to pass him bow bronze
He flees from an iron weapon, A bow of bronze passes through him.
25 to draw and to come out: come from back and lightning from gall his to go: come upon him terror
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 to hide to/for to treasure his to eat him fire not to breathe be evil survivor in/on/with tent his
All darkness is hid for his treasures, A fire not blown consumes him, The remnant is broken in his tent.
27 to reveal: reveal heaven iniquity: crime his and land: country/planet to arise: attack to/for him
The heavens reveal his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.
28 to reveal: remove crops house: home his to pour in/on/with day face: anger his
The increase of his house is removed, Poured forth in a day of His anger.
29 this portion man wicked from God and inheritance word his from God
This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.”
