Job 20

KING JAMES BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,	1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered by saying:
2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.	2 In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas.
3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.	3 The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.
4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,	4 This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:
5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?	5 that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.
6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;	6 If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?	7 in the end, he will be destroyed like a trash heap, and those who had seen him will say: “Where is he?”
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.	8 Like a dream that flies away, he will not be found; he will pass away like a nightmare.
9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.	9 The eyes that had seen him, will not see him; no longer will his own place admire him.
10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.	10 His sons will be worn away by poverty, and his own hands will deliver his grief to him.
11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.	11 His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.
12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;	12 For, when evil will be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:	13 He will permit it, and not abandon it, and he will conceal it in his throat.
14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.	14 His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him.
15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.	15 The riches that he devours, he will vomit up, and from his stomach God will draw them out.
16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.	16 He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.
17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.	17 (May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.)
18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.	18 He will be repaid for all he has done, yet he will not be consumed; according to the multitude of his schemes, so also will he suffer.
19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;	19 For, having broken in, he stripped the poor. He has quickly stolen away a house he did not build.
20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.	20 And yet his stomach will not be satisfied, and when he has the things he desires, he will not be able to possess them.
21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.	21 Nothing remained of his portion, and, because of this, nothing will continue of his kind.
22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.	22 When he will be satisfied, he will be constrained; he will seethe, and all anguish will fall upon 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.	23 May his stomach be filled, so that God may send forth the fury of his wrath to him and may rain down his battle upon him.
24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.	24 He will flee from weapons of iron, and he will fall in an arc of brass,
25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.	25 which had been drawn and had issued forth from its sheath, glittering in its bitterness: the horrible ones will go forth and approach over 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.	26 All darkness has been hidden in his secrecy. A fire that has not been set will devour him; he will be thrown down and forsaken in his tabernacle.
27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.	27 The heavens will reveal his sinfulness, and the earth will rise up against him.
28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.	28 The offspring of his house will be exposed; he will be pulled down in the day of God’s wrath.
29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.	29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his words from the Lord.