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| Job 20:1 | Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said: | Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said, |
| Job 20:2 | Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things. | For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on. |
| Job 20:3 | The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me. | I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom. |
| Job 20:4 | This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth, | Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth, |
| Job 20:5 | that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. | That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute? |
| Job 20:6 | If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds: | Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds; |
| Job 20:7 | In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he? | Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he? |
| Job 20:8 | As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night: | He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night. |
| Job 20:9 | The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him. | The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him. |
| Job 20:10 | His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render him his sorrow. | His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth. |
| Job 20:11 | His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust. | His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust. |
| Job 20:12 | For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue. | Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue; |
| Job 20:13 | He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat. | Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth; |
| Job 20:14 | His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him. | His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him. |
| Job 20:15 | The riches which he hath swallowed; he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly. | He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God. |
| Job 20:16 | He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him. | He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death. |
| Job 20:17 | (Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.) | Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk. |
| Job 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. | He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading. |
| Job 20:19 | Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build. | Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up; |
| Job 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. | There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight. |
| Job 20:21 | There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods: | He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end. |
| Job 20:22 | When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him. | Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him. |
| Job 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. | God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain. |
| Job 20:24 | He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass. | He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him; |
| Job 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. | He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears. |
| Job 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. | All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent. |
| Job 20:27 | The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. | The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him. |
| Job 20:28 | The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath. | The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath. |
| Job 20:29 | This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord. | This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God. |
| | The Douay Rheims Online Bible (DRV) | The Basic English Online Bible (BAS) |
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