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Job 20

Young's Literal Translation YLT

1 And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --

2 Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.

3 The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:

4 This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

5 That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

6 Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike --

7 As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where [is] he?'

8 As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

9 The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.

10 His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.

11 His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.

12 Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,

13 Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,

14 His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps [is] in his heart.

15 Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.

16 Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.

17 He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.

18 He is giving back [what] he laboured for, And doth not consume [it]; As a bulwark [is] his exchange, and he exults not.

19 For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

20 For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.

21 There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.

22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

23 It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.

24 He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.

25 One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him [are] terrors.

26 All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.

27 Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.

28 Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.

29 This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

2 This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer, because I am upset!

3 I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding makes me reply.

4 Don't you know that ever since antiquity, from [the time] man was placed on earth,

5 the joy of the wicked has been brief and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?

6 Though his arrogance reaches heaven, and his head touches the clouds,

7 he will vanish forever like his own dung. Those who know him will ask, "Where is he?"

8 He will fly away like a dream and never be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

9 The eye that saw him will see [him] no more, and his household will no longer see him.

10 His children will beg from the poor, for his own hands must give back his wealth.

11 His bones may be full of youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the grave.

12 Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

13 though he cherishes it and will not let it go but keeps it in his mouth,

14 yet the food in his stomach turns into cobras' venom inside him.

15 He swallows wealth but must vomit it up; God will force it from his stomach.

16 He will suck the poison of cobras; a viper's fangs will kill him.

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

18 He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming [it]; he doesn't enjoy the profits from his trading.

19 For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build.

20 Because his appetite is never satisfied, he does not escape his desires.

21 Nothing is left for him to consume; therefore, his prosperity will not last.

22 At the height of his success distress will come to him; the full weight of misery will crush him.

23 When he fills his stomach, God will send His burning anger against him, raining [it] down on him while he is eating.

24 If he flees from an iron weapon, [an arrow from] a bronze bow will pierce him.

25 He pulls it out of his back, the flashing tip out of his liver. Terrors come over him.

26 Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned [by human hands] will consume him; it will feed on what is left in his tent.

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

28 The possessions in his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God's anger.

29 This is the wicked man's lot from God, the inheritance God ordained for him.