Job 20
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Berean Standard Bible
1Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:
1Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
2Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.
2“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.
3The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.
3I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
4This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,
4Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,
5That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
6If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:
6Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
7In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?
7he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
8As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:
8He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
9The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.
9The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
10His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render him his sorrow.
10His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
11His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.
11The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
12For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
12Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,
13He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.
13though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
14His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him.
14yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
15The riches which he hath swallowed; he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.
15He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
16He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper’s tongue shall kill him.
16He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
17(Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.)
17He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
18He 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.
18He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.
19Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.
19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
20And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them.
20Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.
21There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:
21Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.
22When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.
22In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.
23May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.
23When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.
24He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.
24Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.
25The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon him.
25It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.
26All 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.
26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
27The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
28The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God’s wrath.
28The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.
29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.
29This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”
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