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| Job 20:1 | Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, | Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, | Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said, | Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said: |
| Job 20:2 | Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. | Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me. | For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on. | Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things. |
| Job 20:3 | I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. | I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me. | I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom. | The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me. |
| Job 20:4 | Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, | Knowest thou [not] this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth, | Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth, | This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth, |
| Job 20:5 | That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? | That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment? | That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute? | that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. |
| Job 20:6 | Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; | Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds; | Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds; | If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds: |
| Job 20:7 | Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? | Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have 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? | In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he? |
| Job 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. | He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away 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. | As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night: |
| Job 20:9 | The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. | The eye which saw 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. | The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him. |
| Job 20:10 | His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. | His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his hands shall give back his wealth. | His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth. | His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render him his sorrow. |
| Job 20:11 | His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. | His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust. | His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust. | His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust. |
| Job 20:12 | Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; | Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue, | Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue; | For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue. |
| Job 20:13 | Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: | Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth; | Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth; | He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat. |
| Job 20:14 | Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. | Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him. | His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him. | His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him. |
| Job 20:15 | He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. | He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast 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. | The riches which he hath swallowed; he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly. |
| Job 20:16 | He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. | He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him. | He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death. | He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him. |
| Job 20:17 | He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. | He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter. | Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk. | (Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.) |
| Job 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. | That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice. | 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. | 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. |
| Job 20:19 | Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; | For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. | 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; | Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build. |
| Job 20:20 | Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. | Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth. | There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight. | And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them. |
| Job 20:21 | There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. | There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure. | He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end. | There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods: |
| Job 20:22 | In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. | In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come 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. | When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him. |
| Job 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. | When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating. | God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain. | May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him. |
| Job 20:24 | He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. | He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through. | He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him; | He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass. |
| Job 20:25 | It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. | He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are 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. | 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. |
| Job 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. | All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent. | 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. | 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. |
| Job 20:27 | The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. | 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. | The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. |
| Job 20:28 | The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. | The increase of his house shall depart; [His goods] shall flow away in the day of his 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. | The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath. |
| Job 20:29 | This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. | This is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the heritage appointed unto him by God. | This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God. | This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord. |
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