DRC, VulgClementine, KJV - Job - 20

20:1  Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:

20:1  Respondens autem Sophar Naamathites, dixit :

20:1  Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

20:2  Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.

20:2  Idcirco cogitationes meæ variæ succedunt sibi, et mens in diversa rapitur.

20:2  Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

20:3  The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.

20:3  Doctrinam qua me arguis audiam, et spiritus intelligentiæ meæ respondebit mihi.

20:3  I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

20:4  This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,

20:4  Hoc scio a principio, ex quo positus est homo super terram,

20:4  Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

20:5  That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

20:5  quod laus impiorum brevis sit, et gaudium hypocritæ ad instar puncti.

20:5  That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

20:6  If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:

20:6  Si ascenderit usque ad cælum superbia ejus, et caput ejus nubes tetigerit,

20:6  Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

20:7  In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?

20:7  quasi sterquilinium in fine perdetur, et qui eum viderant, dicent : Ubi est ?

20:7  Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

20:8  As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

20:8  Velut somnium avolans non invenietur : transiet sicut visio nocturna.

20:8  He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

20:9  The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.

20:9  Oculus qui eum viderat non videbit, neque ultra intuebitur eum locus suus.

20:9  The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

20:10  His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.

20:10  Filii ejus atterentur egestate, et manus illius reddent ei dolorem suum.

20:10  His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

20:11  His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.

20:11  Ossa ejus implebuntur vitiis adolescentiæ ejus, et cum eo in pulvere dormient.

20:11  His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

20:12  For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.

20:12  Cum enim dulce fuerit in ore ejus malum, abscondet illud sub lingua sua.

20:12  Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

20:13  He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.

20:13  Parcet illi, et non derelinquet illud, et celabit in gutture suo.

20:13  Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

20:14  His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him,

20:14  Panis ejus in utero illius vertetur in fel aspidum intrinsecus.

20:14  Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

20:15  The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.

20:15  Divitias quas devoravit evomet, et de ventre illius extrahet eas Deus.

20:15  He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

20:16  He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.

20:16  Caput aspidum suget, et occidet eum lingua viperæ.

20:16  He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.

20:17  Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.

20:17  (Non videat rivulos fluminis, torrentes mellis et butyri.)

20:17  He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

20:18  He 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.

20:18  Luet quæ fecit omnia, nec tamen consumetur : juxta multitudinem adinventionum suarum, sic et sustinebit.

20:18  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.

20:19  Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

20:19  Quoniam confringens nudavit pauperes : domum rapuit, et non ædificavit eam.

20:19  Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

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

20:20  Nec est satiatus venter ejus : et cum habuerit quæ concupierat, possidere non poterit.

20:20  Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

20:21  There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:

20:21  Non remansit de cibo ejus, et propterea nihil permanebit de bonis ejus.

20:21  There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

20:22  When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.

20:22  Cum satiatus fuerit, arctabitur : æstuabit, et omnis dolor irruet super eum.

20:22  In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

20:23  May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.

20:23  Utinam impleatur venter ejus, ut emittat in eum iram furoris sui, et pluat super illum bellum suum.

20:23  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.

20:24  He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.

20:24  Fugiet arma ferrea, et irruet in arcum æreum.

20:24  He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

20:25  The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon him.

20:25  Eductus, et egrediens de vagina sua, et fulgurans in amaritudine sua : vadent et venient super eum horribiles.

20:25  It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

20:26  All 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.

20:26  Omnes tenebræ absconditæ sunt in occultis ejus ; devorabit eum ignis qui non succenditur : affligetur relictus in tabernaculo suo.

20:26  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.

20:27  The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

20:27  Revelabunt cæli iniquitatem ejus, et terra consurget adversus eum.

20:27  The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

20:28  The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath.

20:28  Apertum erit germen domus illius : detrahetur in die furoris Dei.

20:28  The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

20:29  This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.

20:29  Hæc est pars hominis impii a Deo, et hæreditas verborum ejus a Domino.

20:29  This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.