Job 20
1 and to answer Zophar [the] Naamathite and to say
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
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 answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
3 discipline shame my to hear: hear and spirit from understanding my to answer me
I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
4 this to know from perpetuity from to set: put man upon land: country/planet
Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,
5 for triumphing wicked from near and joy profane till moment
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
6 if to ascend: rise to/for heaven loftiness his and head his to/for cloud to touch
Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
7 like/as dung his to/for perpetuity to perish to see: see him to say where? he
yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
8 like/as dream to fly and not to find him and to wander like/as vision 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 eye to see him and not to add: again and not still to see him place his
The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.
10 son: child his to accept poor and hand his to return: return strength his
His children will seek the favour of the poor. His hands will 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 are full of his youth, but youth will 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 is 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 will not let it go, 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 food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
15 strength: rich to swallow up and to vomit him from belly: abdomen his to possess: take him God
He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
16 poison cobra to suckle to kill him tongue viper
He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
17 not to see: see in/on/with stream river torrent: river honey and curd
He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams 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 will restore that for which he laboured, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
19 for to crush to leave: neglect poor house: home to plunder and not to build him
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 to know at ease in/on/with belly: abdomen his in/on/with to desire his not to escape
“Because he knew no quietness within him, he will not save anything of that in which he delights.
21 nothing survivor to/for to eat he upon so not be firm goodness his
There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure.
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, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on 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 will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
24 to flee from weapon iron to pass him bow bronze
He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.
25 to draw and to come out: come from back and lightning from gall his to go: come upon him terror
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 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 laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.
27 to reveal: reveal heaven iniquity: crime his and land: country/planet to arise: attack to/for him
The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will 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 will depart. They will rush 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, the heritage appointed to him by God.”
