Job 20
1 and to answer Zophar [the] Naamathite and to say
THEN answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2 to/for so disquietings my to return: reply me and in/on/with for the sake of to hasten I in/on/with me
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
3 discipline shame my to hear: hear and spirit from understanding my to answer me
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
4 this to know from perpetuity from to set: put man upon land: country/planet
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5 for triumphing wicked from near and joy profane till moment
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
6 if to ascend: rise to/for heaven loftiness his and head his to/for cloud to touch
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
7 like/as dung his to/for perpetuity to perish to see: see him to say where? he
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
8 like/as dream to fly and not to find him and to wander like/as vision night
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9 eye to see him and not to add: again and not still to see him place his
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10 son: child his to accept poor and hand his to return: return strength his
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
11 bone his to fill (youth his *QK) and with him upon dust to lie down: lay down
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
12 if be sweet in/on/with lip his distress: evil to hide her underneath: under tongue his
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
13 to spare upon her and not to leave: release her and to withhold her in/on/with midst palate his
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
14 food his in/on/with belly his to overturn gall cobra in/on/with entrails: among his
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
15 strength: rich to swallow up and to vomit him from belly: abdomen his to possess: take him God
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16 poison cobra to suckle to kill him tongue viper
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
17 not to see: see in/on/with stream river torrent: river honey and curd
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
18 to return: return toil and not to swallow up like/as strength: rich exchange his and not to rejoice
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
19 for to crush to leave: neglect poor house: home to plunder and not to build him
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
20 for not to know at ease in/on/with belly: abdomen his in/on/with to desire his not to escape
Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
21 nothing survivor to/for to eat he upon so not be firm goodness his
There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
22 in/on/with to fill sufficiency his be distressed to/for him all hand labour(er) to come (in): come him
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
23 to be to/for to fill belly: abdomen his to send: depart in/on/with him burning anger face: anger his and to rain upon them in/on/with intestine his
When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
24 to flee from weapon iron to pass him bow bronze
He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
25 to draw and to come out: come from back and lightning from gall his to go: come upon him terror
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
26 all darkness to hide to/for to treasure his to eat him fire not to breathe be evil survivor in/on/with tent his
All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
27 to reveal: reveal heaven iniquity: crime his and land: country/planet to arise: attack to/for him
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
28 to reveal: remove crops house: home his to pour in/on/with day face: anger his
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
29 this portion man wicked from God and inheritance word his from God
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
