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