Young's Literal Translation

Job 19

The Book of Job

Return to Index

Chapter 20

1


 

  And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --  

 

 

--

2


 

  Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.  

 

 

--

3


 

  The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:  

 

 

--

4


 

  This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?  

 

 

--

5


 

  That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,  

 

 

--

6


 

  Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike --  

 

 

--

7


 

  As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: 'Where [is] he?'  

 

 

--

8


 

  As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,  

 

 

--

9


 

  The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.  

 

 

--

10


 

  His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.  

 

 

--

11


 

  His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.  

 

 

--

12


 

  Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,  

 

 

--

13


 

  Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,  

 

 

--

14


 

  His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps [is] in his heart.  

 

 

--

15


 

  Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.  

 

 

--

16


 

  Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.  

 

 

--

17


 

  He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.  

 

 

--

18


 

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

 

 

--

19


 

  For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.  

 

 

--

20


 

  For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.  

 

 

--

21


 

  There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.  

 

 

--

22


 

  In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.  

 

 

--

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.  

 

 

--

24


 

  He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.  

 

 

--

25


 

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

 

 

--

26


 

  All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.  

 

 

--

27


 

  Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.  

 

 

--

28


 

  Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.  

 

 

--

29


 

  This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.  

 

 

--

Job 21

 

 

 

 

HTMLBible Software - Public Domain Software by johnhurt.com

 


Other Items are Available At These Sites: