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| | The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) | The Basic English Online Bible (BAS) |
| Job 20:1 | And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: | Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said, |
| Job 20:2 | Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me. | For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on. |
| Job 20:3 | The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer: | 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 hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth? | Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth, |
| Job 20:5 | That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane 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 | Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike | Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds; |
| Job 20:7 | As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders 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 he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven 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. |
| Job 20:9 | The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him. | The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him. |
| Job 20:10 | His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth. | His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth. |
| Job 20:11 | His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down. | His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust. |
| Job 20:12 | Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue, | Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue; |
| Job 20:13 | Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate, | Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth; |
| Job 20:14 | His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps [is] in his heart. | His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him. |
| Job 20:15 | Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out. | He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God. |
| Job 20:16 | Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper. | He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death. |
| Job 20:17 | He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter. | Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk. |
| Job 20:18 | He is giving back [what] he laboured for, And doth not consume [it]; As a bulwark [is] his exchange, and he exults not. | 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 | For he oppressed he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it. | 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 | For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself. | 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 is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay. | He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end. |
| Job 20:22 | In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet 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 | It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating. | 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 fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth 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 | One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him [are] terrors. | 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 for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant 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. |
| Job 20:27 | Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him. | The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him. |
| Job 20:28 | Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger. | 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 an inheritance appointed him by God. | This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God. |
| | The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) | The Basic English Online Bible (BAS) |
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