Rotherham - Job - 20

20:1  Then responded Zophar the Naamathite, and said:—

20:2  Not so, do my thoughts answer me, and to this end, is my haste within me:

20:3  The correction meant to confound me, I must hear, but, the spirit—out of my understanding, will give me a reply.

20:4  Knowest thou, this—from antiquity, from the placing of man upon earth:—

20:5  That, the joy-shout of the lawless, is short, and, the rejoicing of the impious, for a moment?

20:6  Though his elevation mount up to the heavens, and, his head, to the clouds, doth reach,

20:7  Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall say, Where is he?

20:8  Like a dream, shall he fly away, and they shall not find him, yea he shall be chased away, as a vision of the night.

20:9  The eye that hath scanned him, shall not do it again, neither, any more, shall his place behold him:

20:10  His children, shall seek the favour of the poor, and, his own hand, shall give back his wealth.

20:11  His bones, are full of youthful vigour, yet, with him—in the dust, shall it lie down.

20:12  Though, a sweet taste in his mouth, be given by vice, though he hide it under his tongue;

20:13  Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but retain it in the midst of his mouth,

20:14  His food, in his stomach, is changed, the gall of adders, within him!

20:15  Wealth, hath he swallowed, and hath vomited the same, Out of his belly, shall, GOD, drive it forth:

20:16  The poison of adders, shall he suck, The tongue of the viper shall slay him;

20:17  Let him not see in the channels the flowings of torrents of honey and milk.

20:18  In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult!

20:19  For he hath oppressed—hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild.

20:20  Surely he hath known no peace in his inmost mind,—With his dearest thing, shall he not get away:

20:21  Nothing escaped his devouring greed,—For this cause, shall his prosperity not continue:

20:22  When his abundance is gone, he shall be in straits, All the power of distress, shall come upon him.

20:23  It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will thrust at him the glow of his anger, and rain [it] upon him for his punishment.

20:24  He shall flee from the armour of iron,—There shall pierce him, a bow of bronze!

20:25  He hath drawn it out, and it hath come forth out of his back,—yea the flashing arrow-head, out of his gall, There shall march on him—terrors:

20:26  Every misfortune, is laid up for his treasures,—There shall consume, a fire, not blown up,—it shall destroy what remaineth in his tent:

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

20:28  The increase of his house shall vanish, melting away in the day of his anger.

20:29  This, is the portion of the lawless man, from God, and the inheritance decreed him from the Mighty One.