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Job 20

Common English Bible CEB

1 Zophar from Naamah said:

2 Therefore, my troubled thoughts make me turn back— because of my inner turmoil.

3 I hear teaching that insults me, but I am forced to answer based on my own understanding.

4 Do you know this from long ago— from when humans were placed on earth—

5 that the rejoicing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless, brief?

6 Though their height reaches heaven and their heads touch the clouds,

7 they will perish forever like their dung; those who saw them will say, "Where are they?"

8 They will disappear like a dream, and none will find them, carried away like a nighttime vision.

9 The eye that saw them will do so no more; they won't be seen again at home.

10 Their children will repay the poor; their hands will give back their wealth.

11 Vigor filled their bones and now sleeps with them in the dust.

12 Though wickedness is sweet in their mouths, they hide it under their tongues;

13 they like it, won't let it go; they hold it in their cheeks.

14 Food turns their stomachs, becoming a cobra's poison inside.

15 They swallow wealth and vomit it; God dislodges it from their belly.

16 They suck cobra's poison; a viper's tongue kills them.

17 They won't experience streams, rivers of honey, and brooks of cream.

18 They won't receive the reward for their labor; they won't enjoy the wealth from their business.

19 They crushed and abandoned the poor; stole a house they didn't build;

20 didn't know contentment in their belly; couldn't escape with their treasure.

21 Nothing remained of their food, so their riches will not endure.

22 Even in their plenty, they are hard-pressed; all sorts of trouble come on them.

23 Let God fill their belly, unleash his burning anger on them, rain punishing blows on them.

24 If they flee an iron weapon, a bronze bow pierces them.

25 They pull it out, but it sticks out from their backs; its shaft in their liver brings terror.

26 Complete darkness waits for their treasured possessions; fire that no one stoked consumes them; what's left in their tent is ruined.

27 Heaven exposes their guilt; earth opposes them.

28 Their household wealth will be carried off by rushing streams on the day of his anger.

29 This is a wicked person's lot from God, their heritage decreed by God.

English Standard Version ESV

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

2 “Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.

3 I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.

4 Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed on earth,

5 that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

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

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 eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.

10 His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.

11 His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.

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

13 though he is loath to let it go and holds it in his mouth,

14 yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the venom of cobras within him.

15 He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.

16 He will suck the poison of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.

17 He will not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.

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 For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he did not build.

20 “Because he knew no contentment in his belly, he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.

21 There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.

22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress; the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.

23 To fill his belly to the full, God will send his burning anger against him and rain it upon him into his body.

24 He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through.

25 It is drawn forth and comes out of his body; the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder; terrors come upon him.

26 Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not fanned will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.

27 The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.

28 The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God’s wrath.

29 This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God. ”