< Job 20 >
1 And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: —
And he answered Zophar the Naamathite and he said.
2 Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.
Therefore disquieting thoughts my they make respond me and in order to agitate I in me.
3 The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:
[the] correction of Insult my I have heard and a spirit from understanding my it answers me.
4 This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?
¿ This do you know from antiquity from when put humankind on earth.
5 That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,
That [the] cry of joy of wicked [people] [is] from near and [the] gladness of [the] godless [is] until a moment.
6 Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike —
Though it will go up to the heavens loftiness his and head his to the cloud[s] it will reach.
7 As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: 'Where [is] he?'
Like own dung his to perpetuity he will perish [those who] saw him they will say where [is]? he.
8 As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
Like a dream he will fly away and not people will find him and he may be chased away like a vision of [the] night.
9 The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.
An eye it caught sight of him and not it will repeat and not again it will see him place his.
10 His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.
Children his they will seek [the] favor of poor [people] and own hands his they will give back wealth his.
11 His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.
Bones his they were full (youthful vigor his *Q(K)*) and with him on [the] dust it will lie down.
12 Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,
Though it is sweet in mouth his evil he hides it under tongue his.
13 Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,
He spares it and not he lets loose it and he withholds it in [the] midst of mouth his.
14 His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps [is] in his heart.
Food his in inward parts his it is changed venom of cobras in inward part[s] his.
15 Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.
Wealth he swallows and he has vomited up it from belly his he drives out it God.
16 Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.
[the] poison of Cobras he sucks it slays him [the] tongue of a viper.
17 He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.
May not he look on streams rivers of torrents of honey and curd.
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 is] restoring [the] gain And not he swallows [it] according to [the] wealth of trading his not he will rejoice.
19 For he oppressed — he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.
For he has crushed he has neglected poor [people] a house he has seized and not he had built it.
20 For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.
For - not he knows quiet in belly his among desired [things] his not he delivers.
21 There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.
There not [is] a survivor to devour he there-fore not it will endure prosperity his.
22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.
When is full sufficiency his it will be distress to him every hand of a sufferer it will come to 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.
May he be - [about] to fill belly his he will send on him [the] burning of anger his and he will send rain on him in bowel[s] his.
24 He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.
He will flee from a weapon of iron it will cut through him a bow of bronze.
25 One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him [are] terrors.
He will draw [it] out and it came out from [the] back and lightning from gall-bladder his it will come on him terrors.
26 All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.
All darkness [is] hidden for treasured [things] his it will consume him fire [which] not it has been fanned it will be evil a survivor in tent his.
27 Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.
They will reveal [the] heavens iniquity his and [the] earth [will] rise up to him.
28 Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.
It will depart [the] produce of house his torrents on [the] day of anger his.
29 This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.
This - [is the] portion of a person wicked from God and [the] inheritance of decree his from God.