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Job 20

New Century Version NCV

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

2 "My troubled thoughts cause me to answer, because I am very upset.

3 You correct me and I am insulted, but I understand how to answer you.

4 "You know how it has been for a long time, ever since people were first put on the earth.

5 The happiness of evil people is brief, and the joy of the wicked lasts only a moment.

6 Their pride may be as high as the heavens, and their heads may touch the clouds,

7 but they will be gone forever, like their own dung. People who knew them will say, 'Where are they?'

8 They will fly away like a dream and not be found again; they will be chased away like a vision in the night.

9 Those who saw them will not see them again; the places where they lived will see them no more.

10 Their children will have to pay back the poor, and they will have to give up their wealth.

11 They had the strength of their youth in their bones, but it will lie with them in the dust of death.

12 "Evil may taste sweet in their mouths, and they may hide it under their tongues.

13 They cannot stand to let go of it; they keep it in their mouths.

14 But their food will turn sour in their stomachs, like the poison of a snake inside them.

15 They have swallowed riches, but they will spit them out; God will make them vomit their riches up.

16 They will suck the poison of snakes, and the snake's fangs will kill them.

17 They will not admire the sparkling streams or the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

18 They must give back what they worked for without eating it; they will not enjoy the money they made from their trading,

19 because they troubled the poor and left them with nothing. They have taken houses they did not build.

20 "Evil people never lack an appetite, and nothing escapes their selfishness.

21 But nothing will be left for them to eat; their riches will not continue.

22 When they still have plenty, trouble will catch up to them, and great misery will come down on them.

23 When the wicked fill their stomachs, God will send his burning anger against them, and blows of punishment will fall on them like rain.

24 The wicked may run away from an iron weapon, but a bronze arrow will stab them.

25 They will pull the arrows out of their backs and pull the points out of their livers. Terrors will come over them;

26 total darkness waits for their treasure. A fire not fanned by people will destroy them and burn up what is left of their tents.

27 The heavens will show their guilt, and the earth will rise up against them.

28 A flood will carry their houses away, swept away on the day of God's anger.

29 This is what God plans for evil people; this is what he has decided they will receive."

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."