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Job 20

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,

2 For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.

3 I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.

4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

5 That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

6 Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;

7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

9 The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.

10 His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.

11 His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

12 Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;

13 Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;

14 His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

15 He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

17 Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.

18 He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

19 Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

20 There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

21 He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

22 Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.

23 God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

24 He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

25 He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.

26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

27 The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

28 The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

29 This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 0 Then answered Tzophar the Na’amati, and said,

2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and ba’avur (because of [this]) I make haste.

3 I hear the musar that insults me, and the ruach of my understanding causeth me to answer.

4 Knowest thou not this of old, since adam was placed upon earth,

5 That the triumphing of the resha’im is short, and the simchat chanef (joy of the hypocrite) but for a moment?

6 Though his excellency mount up to Shomayim, and his rosh reach unto the clouds;

7 Yet he shall perish lanetzach (forever) like his own dung; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

8 He shall fly away as a chalom, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a chezyon lailah.

9 The ayin also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his makom any more behold him.

10 His banim shall seek the favor of the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

11 His atzmot are full of youthful vigor, which shall lie down with him in the aphar.

12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his leshon;

13 Though he savor it, and forsake it not, but keep it still betoch (within) his mouth;

14 Yet his lechem in his stomach is turned sour; it is the venom of vipers within him.

15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; El shall drive them out of his beten.

16 He shall suck the venom of asps; the viper’s leshon shall slay him.

17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of devash and khemah (butter, curds).

18 That which he labored for shall he give back, and shall not swallow it down; he shall not rejoice according to his chayil temurah (business profit).

19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the destitute; because he hath violently seized a bais which he built not;

20 Surely he knew no quiet in his beten; he shall not save anything which he desired.

21 There shall none of his ochel be left; therefore his posterity will not endure.

22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in distress; kol yad of misery shall come upon him.

23 When he is about to fill his beten, He shall cast the charon af (fury of His wrath) upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

24 He shall flee from the weapon of barzel (iron), and the keshet of bronze shall strike him through.

25 It is drawn, and cometh out of their body; yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall; emim (terrors [of death]) are upon them.

26 Kol choshech is reserved for his treasures; an eish not fanned shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his ohel.

27 Shomayim shall reveal his iniquity; and eretz shall rise up against him.

28 The increase of his bais shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in [G-d’s] Yom Af.

29 This is the chelek of an adam rasha from Elohim, and the nachalah decreed unto him by El (G-d).