Job 20
1 respondens autem Sophar Naamathites dixit
Then Zophar replied,
2 idcirco cogitationes meae variae succedunt sibi et mens in diversa rapitur
“I am very perturbed about what you have said, so I want to reply very quickly.
3 doctrinam qua me arguis audiam et spiritus intellegentiae meae respondebit mihi
By saying these things you have insulted me, but I know how (OR, because I understand very much) I can reply to you.
4 hoc scio a principio ex quo positus est homo super terram
“Do you not know that from long ago, ever since people were first put on the earth,
5 quod laus impiorum brevis sit et gaudium hypocritae ad instar puncti
wicked people [like you] do not continue to rejoice for a long time, ungodly people are happy only for a (moment/very short time) [HYP]?
6 si ascenderit usque ad caelum superbia eius et caput eius nubes tetigerit
[Even] though their reputation/pride reaches up to the sky and their fame goes up as high as the clouds,
7 quasi sterquilinium in fine perdetur et qui eum viderant dicent ubi est
they will disappear forever, like their own dung, and those who knew them will ask, ‘(Where did they go/What happened to them)?’
8 velut somnium avolans non invenietur transiet sicut visio nocturna
They will be forgotten like [SIM] a dream is, and they will exist no more. They will vanish, like visions [that people see] during the night.
9 oculus qui eum viderat non videbit neque ultra intuebitur eum locus suus
Those who saw those people previously will never see them again; even their families [MTY] will not see them any more.
10 filii eius adterentur egestate et manus illius reddent ei dolorem suum
Their children will be forced to return the valuable things that those children stole from poor people [DOU].
11 ossa eius implebuntur vitiis adulescentiae eius et cum eo in pulverem dormient
Previously their bodies were young and strong, but they will die and [their bodies will] be buried in the ground.
12 cum enim dulce fuerit in ore eius malum abscondet illud sub lingua sua
“Doing wicked things was like having sweet food in their mouths, and they wanted to continue to taste it.
13 parcet illi et non derelinquet illud et celabit in gutture suo
And they did not want to stop doing those things,
14 panis eius in utero illius vertetur in fel aspidum intrinsecus
[but some day] the evil things that they enjoyed doing will become like food [that they swallow] [and which becomes] as bitter as snake venom.
15 divitias quas devoravit evomet et de ventre illius extrahet eas Deus
Wicked people will not continue to keep the money they have accumulated, like people do not keep the food that they vomit. God takes their wealth from them.
16 caput aspidum suget occidet eum lingua viperae
What wicked people do is [like] [MET] swallowing snake venom; it will kill them like [MET] the bite of a poisonous snake kills people.
17 non videat rivulos fluminis torrentes mellis et butyri
They will not remain alive to see abundant blessings [IDM] [from God], milk and olive oil and honey, that are [so abundant they are] like [MET] a stream that flows by.
18 luet quae fecit omnia nec tamen consumetur iuxta multitudinem adinventionum suarum sic et sustinebit
They will be forced to give back the things that they stole from the poor; they will not be able to continue to enjoy those things. They will not remain happy because of what they got from their businesses,
19 quoniam confringens nudavit pauperes domum rapuit et non aedificavit eam
because they oppressed poor people and refused to help them, and they took other people’s houses [by cheating them].
20 nec est satiatus venter eius et cum habuerit quae cupierat possidere non poterit
“They were always greedy and never satisfied. They just keep dreaming about owning more and more things.
21 non remansit de cibo eius et propterea nihil permanebit de bonis eius
When they finished eating their food, there was never anything left over [because they had greedily eaten it all]; but now their prosperity will end.
22 cum satiatus fuerit artabitur aestuabit et omnis dolor inruet in eum
When they are extremely prosperous/wealthy, they will suddenly experience a lot of trouble. (Misery will strike them and crush them [PRS]/They will suffer very greatly).
23 utinam impleatur venter eius ut emittat in eum iram furoris sui et pluat super illum bellum suum
When the wicked people are filling their stomachs, God will show that he is very angry with them and punish them; the punishment [that he gives them] will be like [MET] rain falling on them.
24 fugiet arma ferrea et inruet in arcum aereum
They will try to escape from [being killed by] iron weapons, but arrows with bronze points will pierce them.
25 eductus et egrediens de vagina sua et fulgurans in amaritudine sua vadent et venient super eum horribiles
The arrows will [go completely through their bodies and] stick out of their backs; the shiny points of the arrows will have blood dripping from them, and those wicked people will be terrified.
26 omnes tenebrae absconditae sunt in occultis eius devorabit eum ignis qui non succenditur adfligetur relictus in tabernaculo suo
Their valuable possessions will all be destroyed; a fire that is not lit by humans, [but by God, ] will burn them up and also destroy the things that are left in their tents.
27 revelabunt caeli iniquitatem eius et terra consurget adversus eum
The [angels in] heaven [MTY] will reveal the sins that those wicked people have committed, and [people on] earth will stand up and testify against them.
28 apertum erit germen domus illius detrahetur in die furoris Dei
When God punishes [MTY] [people], all the possessions in the wicked people’s houses will be carried away by a flood.
29 haec est pars hominis impii a Deo et hereditas verborum eius a Domino
That is what will happen to wicked people [like you]; that is what God has decided will happen to them.”
