Job 20

1 And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: —YLT — Job 20:1

2 Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.YLT — Job 20:2

3 The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:YLT — Job 20:3

4 This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?YLT — Job 20:4

5 That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,YLT — Job 20:5

6 Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike —YLT — Job 20:6

7 As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: ‘Where [is] he?’YLT — Job 20:7

8 As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,YLT — Job 20:8

9 The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.YLT — Job 20:9

10 His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.YLT — Job 20:10

11 His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.YLT — Job 20:11

12 Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,YLT — Job 20:12

13 Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,YLT — Job 20:13

14 His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps [is] in his heart.YLT — Job 20:14

15 Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.YLT — Job 20:15

16 Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.YLT — Job 20:16

17 He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.YLT — Job 20:17

18 He is giving back [what] he laboured for, And doth not consume [it]; As a bulwark [is] his exchange, and he exults not.YLT — Job 20:18

19 For he oppressed — he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.YLT — Job 20:19

20 For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.YLT — Job 20:20

21 There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.YLT — Job 20:21

22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.YLT — Job 20:22

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.YLT — Job 20:23

24 He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.YLT — Job 20:24

25 One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him [are] terrors.YLT — Job 20:25

26 All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.YLT — Job 20:26

27 Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.YLT — Job 20:27

28 Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.YLT — Job 20:28

29 This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.YLT — Job 20:29