Job 20

DOUAI-RHEIMS	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:	1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:
2 Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.	2 "Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.
3 The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.	3 I hear censure which insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
4 This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,	4 Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5 that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.	5 that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
6 If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:	6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
7 In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?	7 he will perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'
8 As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:	8 He will fly away like a dream, and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
9 The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.	9 The eye which saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.
10 His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render him his sorrow.	10 His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.
11 His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.	11 His bones are full of youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.
12 For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.	12 "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,
13 He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.	13 though he is loath to let it go, and holds it in his mouth,
14 His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him.	14 yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the gall of asps within him.
15 The riches which he hath swallowed; he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.	15 He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.
16 He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.	16 He will suck the poison of asps; the tongue of a viper will kill him.
17 (Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.)	17 He will not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.
18 He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.	18 He will give back the fruit of his toil, and will not swallow it down; from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment.
19 Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.	19 For he has crushed and abandoned the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.
20 And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them.	20 "Because his greed knew no rest, he will not save anything in which he delights.
21 There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:	21 There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.
22 When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.	22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he will be in straits; all the force of misery will come upon him.
23 May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.	23 To fill his belly to the full God will send his fierce anger into him, and rain it upon him as his food.
24 He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.	24 He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through.
25 The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon him.	25 It is drawn forth and comes out of his body, the glittering point comes out of his gall; terrors come upon him.
26 All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle.	26 Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not blown upon will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.
27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.	27 The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
28 The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath.	28 The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God's wrath.
29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.	29 This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God."