Job 20
1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
and to answer Zophar [the] Naamathite and to say
2 “My thoughts make me answer quickly because of the worry that is in me.
to/for so disquietings my to return: reply me and in/on/with for the sake of to hasten I in/on/with me
3 I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, but a spirit from my understanding answers me.
discipline shame my to hear: hear and spirit from understanding my to answer me
4 Do you not know this fact from ancient times, when God placed man on earth:
this to know from perpetuity from to set: put man upon land: country/planet
5 the triumph of a wicked man is short, and the joy of a godless man lasts only for a moment?
for triumphing wicked from near and joy profane till moment
6 Though his height reaches up to the heavens, and his head reaches to the clouds,
if to ascend: rise to/for heaven loftiness his and head his to/for cloud to touch
7 yet such a person will perish permanently like his own feces; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'
like/as dung his to/for perpetuity to perish to see: see him to say where? he
8 He will fly away like a dream and will not be found; indeed, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
like/as dream to fly and not to find him and to wander like/as vision night
9 The eye that saw him will see him no more; his place will see him no longer.
eye to see him and not to add: again and not still to see him place his
10 His children will apologize to poor people; his hands will have to give back his wealth.
son: child his to accept poor and hand his to return: return strength his
11 His bones are full of youthful strength, but it will lie down with him in the dust.
bone his to fill (youth his *Q(K)*) and with him upon dust to lie down: lay down
12 Although wickedness is sweet in his mouth, although he hides it under his tongue,
if be sweet in/on/with lip his distress: evil to hide her underneath: under tongue his
13 although he holds it there and does not let it go but keeps it still in his mouth—
to spare upon her and not to leave: release her and to withhold her in/on/with midst palate his
14 the food in his intestines turns bitter; it becomes the poison of asps inside him.
food his in/on/with belly his to overturn gall cobra in/on/with entrails: among his
15 He swallows down riches, but he will vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his stomach.
strength: rich to swallow up and to vomit him from belly: abdomen his to possess: take him God
16 He will suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue will kill him.
poison cobra to suckle to kill him tongue viper
17 He will not enjoy the streams, the torrents of honey and butter.
not to see: see in/on/with stream river torrent: river honey and curd
18 He will give back the fruit of his labor and will not be able to eat it; he will not enjoy the wealth earned by his commerce.
to return: return toil and not to swallow up like/as strength: rich exchange his and not to rejoice
19 For he has oppressed and neglected poor people; he has violently taken away houses that he did not build.
for to crush to leave: neglect poor house: home to plunder and not to build him
20 Because he has known no satisfaction himself, he will not be able to save anything in which he takes pleasure.
for not to know at ease in/on/with belly: abdomen his in/on/with to desire his not to escape
21 There is nothing left that he did not devour; therefore his prosperity will not be permanent.
nothing survivor to/for to eat he upon so not be firm goodness his
22 In the abundance of his wealth he will fall into trouble; the hand of everyone who is in poverty will come against him.
in/on/with to fill sufficiency his be distressed to/for him all hand labour(er) to come (in): come him
23 When he is about to fill his stomach, God will throw the fierceness of his wrath on him; God will rain it down on him while he is eating.
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
24 Although that man will flee from the iron weapon, a bow of bronze will shoot him.
to flee from weapon iron to pass him bow bronze
25 He pulls it out of his back and the gleaming point comes out of his liver. Terrors come over him.
to draw and to come out: come from back and lightning from gall his to go: come upon him terror
26 Complete darkness is reserved for his treasures; a fire not fanned will devour him; it will consume what is left in his tent.
all darkness to hide to/for to treasure his to eat him fire not to breathe be evil survivor in/on/with tent his
27 The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him as a witness.
to reveal: reveal heaven iniquity: crime his and land: country/planet to arise: attack to/for him
28 The wealth of his house will vanish; his goods will flow away on the day of God's wrath.
to reveal: remove crops house: home his to pour in/on/with day face: anger his
29 This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage reserved for him by God.”
this portion man wicked from God and inheritance word his from God
