Job 20
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1Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: 1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:
2This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer, because I am upset! 2"This is why my troubled thoughts bring me back--because of my feelings within me.
3I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding makes me reply. 3When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.
4Don't you know that ever since antiquity, from the time man was placed on earth, 4"Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,
5the joy of the wicked has been brief and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment? 5that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
6Though his arrogance reaches heaven, and his head touches the clouds, 6Even though his stature reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,
7he will vanish forever like his own dung. Those who know him will ask, "Where is he?" 7he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say, 'Where is he?'
8He will fly away like a dream and never be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night. 8Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.
9The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his household will no longer see him. 9People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.
10His children will beg from the poor, for his own hands must give back his wealth. 10His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.
11His bones may be full of youthful vigor, but will lie down with him in the grave. 11His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.
12Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue, 12"If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,
13though he cherishes it and will not let it go but keeps it in his mouth, 13if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,
14yet the food in his stomach turns into cobras' venom inside him. 14his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.
15He swallows wealth but must vomit it up; God will force it from his stomach. 15The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.
16He will suck the poison of cobras; a viper's fangs will kill him. 16He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.
17He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream. 17He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.
18He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he doesn't enjoy the profits from his trading. 18He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.
19For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build. 19For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.
20Because his appetite is never satisfied, he does not let anything he desires escape. 20For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.
21Nothing is left for him to consume; therefore, his prosperity will not last. 21"Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.
22At the height of his success distress will come to him; the full weight of misery will crush him. 22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. the full force of misery will come upon him.
23When he fills his stomach, God will send His burning anger against him, raining it down on him while he is eating. 23"While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.
24If he flees from an iron weapon, an arrow from a bronze bow will pierce him. 24If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.
25He pulls it out of his back, the flashing tip out of his liver. Terrors come over him. 25When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.
26Total 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. 26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
27The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him. 27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.
28The possessions in his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God's anger. 28A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath.
29This is the wicked man's lot from God, the inheritance God ordained for him. 29Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God."
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