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Job 20

¹Then Zophar the Naamathite answered by saying:

²In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas.

³The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.

⁴This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:

⁵that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.

⁶If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

⁷in the end, he will be destroyed like a trash heap, and those who had seen him will say: “Where is he?”

⁸Like a dream that flies away, he will not be found; he will pass away like a nightmare.

⁹The eyes that had seen him, will not see him; no longer will his own place admire him.

¹⁰His sons will be worn away by poverty, and his own hands will deliver his grief to him.

¹¹His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.

¹²For, when evil will be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.

¹³He will permit it, and not abandon it, and he will conceal it in his throat.

¹⁴His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him.

¹⁵The riches that he devours, he will vomit up, and from his stomach God will draw them out.

¹⁶He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.

¹⁷(May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.)

¹⁸He will be repaid for all he has done, yet he will not be consumed; according to the multitude of his schemes, so also will he suffer.

¹⁹For, having broken in, he stripped the poor. He has quickly stolen away a house he did not build.

²⁰And yet his stomach will not be satisfied, and when he has the things he desires, he will not be able to possess them.

²¹Nothing remained of his portion, and, because of this, nothing will continue of his kind.

²²When he will be satisfied, he will be constrained; he will seethe, and all anguish will fall upon him.

²³May his stomach be filled, so that God may send forth the fury of his wrath to him and may rain down his battle upon him.

²⁴He will flee from weapons of iron, and he will fall in an arc of brass,

²⁵which had been drawn and had issued forth from its sheath, glittering in its bitterness: the horrible ones will go forth and approach over him.

²⁶All darkness has been hidden in his secrecy. A fire that has not been set will devour him; he will be thrown down and forsaken in his tabernacle.

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

²⁸The offspring of his house will be exposed; he will be pulled down in the day of God’s wrath.

²⁹This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his words from the Lord.

Job 20

¹Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:

²Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.

³The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.

⁴This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,

⁵That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

⁶If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:

⁷In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?

⁸As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

⁹The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.

¹⁰His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.

¹¹His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.

¹²For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.

¹³He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.

¹⁴His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him,

¹⁵The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.

¹⁶He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.

¹⁷Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.

¹⁸He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.

¹⁹Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

²⁰And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them.

²¹There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:

²²When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.

²³May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.

²⁴He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.

²⁵The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon him.

²⁶All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle.

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

²⁸The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath.

²⁹This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.