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Job 20

Lexham English Bible LEB

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

2 "Therefore my disquieting thoughts bring me back {for the sake of} my inward excitement.

3 I hear discipline that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.

4 "Did you know this from of old, since the setting of [the] human being on earth,

5 that [the] rejoicing of [the] wicked [is] {short}, and the joy of [the] godless {lasts only a moment}?

6 Even though his stature mounts up to the heaven, and his head reaches to the clouds,

7 he will perish forever like his dung; [those who] have seen him will say, 'Where [is] he?'

8 He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of [the] night.

9 [The] eye [that] saw him {will not see him again}, and his place will no longer behold him.

10 His children will seek favors from [the] poor, and his hands will return his wealth.

11 His bones were full of his vigor, but it will lie down with him on [the] dust.

12 "Though wickedness tastes sweet in his mouth, [and] he hides it under his tongue,

13 [though] he spares it and does not let it go [and] holds it back in the midst of his palate,

14 in his bowels his food is turned, [the] venom of horned vipers [is] {within him}.

15 He swallows riches, but he vomits them [up]; God drives them out from his stomach.

16 He will suck [the] poison of horned vipers; [the] viper's tongue will kill him.

17 {He will not enjoy the streams}, [the] torrents of honey and curds.

18 Returning [the] products of [his] toil, he will not swallow; according to the profit of his trade, {he will not enjoy},

19 for he has oppressed; he has abandoned [the] poor; he has seized a house but did not build it.

20 Because he has not known satisfaction in his stomach, {he lets nothing escape that he desires}.

21 {There is nothing left after he has eaten}; therefore his prosperity will not endure.

22 In the fullness of his excess {he will be in distress}; all of misery's power will come [upon] him.

23 {When his stomach fills up}, [God] will send {his burning anger} upon him, and he will let [it] rain down upon him as his food.

24 "He will flee from an iron weapon, [but] an arrow of bronze will pierce him.

25 He draws [it] forth, and it comes out from [his] body, and [the] glittering point comes from his gall-bladder; terrors come upon him.

26 {Total darkness} is hidden for his treasures; {an unfanned fire} will devour him; [the] remnant {will be consumed} in his tent.

27 [The] heavens will reveal his guilt, and [the] earth will rise up against him.

28 The products of his house will be carried away [like] gushing waters on the day of his wrath.

29 This [is] a wicked human being's portion from God and the inheritance of his decree from God."

New International Version NIV

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

2 “My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed.

3 I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply.

4 “Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since mankind was placed on the earth,

5 that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

6 Though the pride of the godless person reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,

7 he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

8 Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found, banished like a vision of the night.

9 The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more.

10 His children must make amends to the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.

11 The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.

12 “Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

13 though he cannot bear to let it go and lets it linger in his mouth,

14 yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.

15 He will spit out the riches he swallowed; God will make his stomach vomit them up.

16 He will suck the poison of serpents; the fangs of an adder will kill him.

17 He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

18 What he toiled for he must give back uneaten; he will not enjoy the profit from his trading.

19 For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute; he has seized houses he did not build.

20 “Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.

21 Nothing is left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure.

22 In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him; the full force of misery will come upon him.

23 When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows on him.

24 Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.

25 He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him;

26 total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

27 The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up against him.

28 A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

29 Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God.”