Job 20
1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,
2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make haste.
Doubtlesse my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.
3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.
4 Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,
5 That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?
That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?
6 Though his excellence shall mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds;
Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,
7 [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they who have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?
Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and will not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
He shall flee away as a dreame, and they shall not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,
9 The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more.
10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
His children shall flatter the poore, and his hands shall restore his substance.
11 His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shall lie downe with him in the dust.
12 Though wickedness may be sweet in his mouth, [though] he may hide it under his tongue;
When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,
13 [Though] he may spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,
14 [Yet] his food in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.
Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.
15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.
16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.
17 He shall not see the river, the floods, the brooks of honey and buttermilk.
He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.
18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it]: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [in it].
He shall restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, and he shall enioy it no more.
19 Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.
For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.
20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.
21 There shall none of his food be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shall hope for his goods.
22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him.
23 [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.
He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate.
24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of steel shall strike him through.
He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shall strike him through.
25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yes, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him.
The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.
26 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.
All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed.
27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
The heauen shall declare his wickednes, and the earth shall rise vp against him.
28 The increase of his house shall depart, [and his goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
The increase of his house shall go away: it shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
29 This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.
This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage that he shall haue of God for his wordes.
