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Job 20

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 Tzofar the Na'amati replied,

2 "My thoughts are pressing me to answer; I feel such an urge to speak!

3 I have heard reproof that outrages me, but a spirit past my understanding gives me a reply.

4 "Don't you know that ever since time began, ever since humans were placed on earth,

5 that the triumph of the wicked is always short-lived, and the joy of the ungodly is gone in a moment?

6 His pride may mount to the heavens, his head may touch the clouds;

7 but he will vanish completely, like his own dung -those who used to see him will ask, 'Where is he?'

8 Like a dream he flies off and is not found again; like a vision in the night he is chased away.

9 The eye which once saw him will see him no more, his place will not behold him again.

10 His children will have to pay back the poor; his hands will restore their wealth.

11 His bones may be filled with [the vigor of] his youth, but it will join him lying in the dust.

12 "Wickedness may taste sweet in his mouth, he may savor and roll it around on his tongue,

13 he may linger over it and not let it go but keep it there in his mouth -

14 yet in his stomach his food goes bad, it works inside him like snake venom;

15 the wealth he swallows he vomits back up; God makes him disgorge it.

16 He sucks the poison of asps, the viper's fangs will kill him.

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

18 He will have to give back what he toiled for; he won't get to swallow it down -to the degree that he acquired wealth, he won't get to enjoy it.

19 "For he crushed and abandoned the poor, seizing houses he did not build,

20 because his appetite would not let him rest, in his greed he let nothing escape;

21 nothing is left that he did not devour; therefore his well-being will not last.

22 With all needs satisfied, he will be in distress; the full force of misery will come over him.

23 "This is what will fill his belly! -[God] will lay on him all his burning anger and make it rain over him, into his insides.

24 If he flees from the weapon of iron, the bow of bronze will pierce him through

25 he pulls the arrow out of his back, the shining tip comes out from his innards; terrors come upon him.

26 "Total darkness is laid up for his treasures, a fire fanned by no one will consume him, and calamity awaits what is left in his tent.

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

28 The income of his household will be carried off; his goods will flow away on the day of his wrath.

29 This is God's reward for the wicked, the heritage God decrees for him."

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.