Job 20

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

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