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1Then Zophar from Naamath replied: | 1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, |
2"Therefore my anxious thoughts cause me to answer because I'm agitated within me. | 2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. |
3Whenever I hear an insulting rebuke, I respond from my spirit because I understand." | 3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. |
4"Haven't you known this from ancient times, since mankind was placed on the earth? | 4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, |
5The wicked triumph only briefly; the joy of the godless is momentary. | 5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? |
6Though he grow as tall as the sky, or though his head touches the clouds, | 6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; |
7he'll perish forever, like his own excrement; those who saw him will ask, 'Where is he?' | 7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? |
8He'll vanish like a dream, and no one will find him; he will be chased away like a night vision." | 8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. |
9"An eye that gazes at him won't do so again; and his place won't even recognize him. | 9The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. |
10His sons will make amends to the poor; their hands will return his wealth. | 10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. |
11Though his bones were full of youthful vigor; yet they will lie down with him in the dust. | 11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. |
12Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth, though he conceals it under his tongue, | 12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; |
13though he savors it and delays swallowing it so he can taste it again and again in his mouth, | 13Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: |
14his food will turn rancid in his stomach— it will become a cobra's poison inside him. | 14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. |
15"Though he swallows wealth, he will vomit it; God will dislodge it from his stomach. | 15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. |
16He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will slay him. | 16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. |
17He won't look at the rivers— the torrents of honey and curd. | 17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. |
18"He will restore what he has attained from his work and won't consume it; he won't enjoy the profits from his business transactions, | 18That 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. |
19because he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he didn't build. | 19Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; |
20"Since his appetite won't quit; he won't let anything escape his lust. | 20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. |
21Because nothing was left for him to devour, therefore his prosperity won't last. | 21There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. |
22Even though he is satiated and self-sufficient, he suffers— everyone in any sort of trouble will attack him. | 22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. |
23"It will come about that, when he has filled himself to the full, God will vent his burning anger on him; he will pour it out on him and on his body. | 23When 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. |
24Though he dodges an iron weapon, a bronze arrow will pierce him. | 24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. |
25It will impale him and come out through his back; the point will glisten as it protrudes through his gall bladder, and he will be terrified. | 25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. |
26"Total darkness has been reserved for his treasures; a fire that has no need to be kindled will devour him and consume whatever remains in his possession. | 26All 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. |
27Heaven will reveal his iniquity, while the earth will rise up against him. | 27The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. |
28A flood will wash away his house; dragging it away when God becomes angry. | 28The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. |
29This is what the wicked person inherits from God; it is the inheritance that God appoints for him." | 29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. |
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