Job 20

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Then Zophar the Naamathite spoke and said:	1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2 and because of this I am disturbed. So now my thoughts provide me with an answer, and from my understanding a spirit gives me a reply.	2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
3 A rebuke which puts me to shame I hear,	3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
4 Do you not know this from olden time, since man was placed upon the earth,	4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5 That the triumph of the wicked is short and the joy of the impious but for a moment?	5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
6 Though his pride mount up to the heavens and his head reach to the clouds,	6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
7 Yet he perishes forever like the fuel of his fire, and the onlookers say, "Where is he?"	7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
8 Like a dream he takes flight and is not found again; he fades away like a vision of the night.	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.
9 The eye which saw him does so no more; nor shall his dwelling again behold him.	9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10 and his hands shall yield up his riches.	10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
11 Though his frame is full of youthful vigor, this shall lie with him in the dust.	11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
12 Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, and he hides it under his tongue,	12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
13 Though he retains it and will not let it go but keeps it still within his mouth,	13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
14 Yet in his stomach the food shall turn; it shall be venom of asps inside him.	14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
15 The riches he swallowed he shall disgorge; God shall compel his belly to disown them.	15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16 The poison of asps he shall drink in; the viper's fangs shall slay him.	16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
17 He shall see no streams of oil, no torrents of honey or milk.	17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
18 Restoring his gains, he shall not enjoy them; though his wealth increases, he shall not rejoice.	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.
19 Because he has oppressed the poor, and stolen a patrimony he had not built up,	19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
20 Though he has known no quiet in his greed, his treasures shall not save him.	20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
21 Therefore his prosperity shall not endure,	21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
22 When he abounds to overflowing, he shall be brought into straits, and nought shall be left of his goods.	22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
23 God shall send against him the fury of his wrath and rain down his missiles of war 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.
24 Should he escape the iron weapon, the bow of bronze shall pierce him through;	24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
25 The dart shall come out of his back; terrors shall fall upon him.	25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
26 Complete darkness is in store for him; the fire which shall consume him needs not to be fanned.	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.
27 The heavens shall reveal his guilt, and the earth shall rise up against him.	27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
28 The flood shall sweep away his house with the waters that run off in the day of God's anger.	28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
29 This is the portion of a wicked man, and the heritage appointed him by God.	29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.