Job 20

1 And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: —

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,

2 Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.

Doubtlesse my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.

3 The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:

I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.

4 This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,

5 That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?

6 Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike —

Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,

7 As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders 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 As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven 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 hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place 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 sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.

His children shall flatter the poore, and his hands shall restore his substance.

11 His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.

His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shall lie downe with him in the dust.

12 Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,

When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,

13 Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,

And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,

14 His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps [is] in his heart.

Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.

15 Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.

He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.

16 Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.

He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.

17 He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.

He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.

18 He is giving back [what] he laboured for, And doth not consume [it]; As a bulwark [is] his exchange, and he exults not.

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 For he oppressed — he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.

20 For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.

Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.

21 There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.

There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shall hope for his goods.

22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him.

23 It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his 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 fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.

He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shall strike him through.

25 One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him [are] terrors.

The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.

26 All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.

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 Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.

The heauen shall declare his wickednes, and the earth shall rise vp against him.

28 Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.

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 an inheritance appointed 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.