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| [1]Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and said, |
[1]And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: -- |
| [2]Doubtless my thoughts cause me to answer, and therefore I make haste. |
[2]Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me. |
| [3]I have heard the correction of my reproach: therefore the spirit of mine understanding causeth me to answer. |
[3]The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer: |
| [4]Knowest thou not this of old? And since God placed man upon the earth, |
[4]This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth? |
| [5]That the rejoicing of the wicked is short, and that the joy of hypocrites is but a moment? |
[5]That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment, |
| [6]Though his excellency mount up to the heaven, and his head reach unto the clouds, |
[6]Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike -- |
| [7]Yet shall he perish forever, like his dung, and they which have seen him, shall say, Where is he? |
[7]As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where [is] he?' |
| [8]He shall flee away as a dream, and they shall not find him, and shall pass away as a vision of the night, |
[8]As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night, |
| [9]So that the eye which had seen him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more. |
[9]The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him. |
| [10]His children shall flatter the poor, and his hands shall restore his substance. |
[10]His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth. |
| [11]His bones are full of the sin of his youth, and it shall lie down with him in the dust. |
[11]His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down. |
| [12]When wickedness was sweet in his mouth, and he hid it under his tongue, |
[12]Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue, |
| [13]And favored it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth, |
[13]Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate, |
| [14]Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of asps was in the midst of him. |
[14]His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps [is] in his heart. |
| [15]He hath devoured substance, and he shall vomit it: for God shall draw it out of his belly. |
[15]Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out. |
| [16]He shall suck the gall of asps, and the viper's tongue shall slay him. |
[16]Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper. |
| [17]He shall not see the rivers, nor the floods and streams of honey and butter. |
[17]He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter. |
| [18]He shall restore the labor, and shall devour no more: even according to the substance shall be his exchange, and he shall enjoy it no more. |
[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 hath undone many: he hath forsaken the poor, and hath spoiled houses which he builded not. |
[19]For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it. |
| [20]Surely he shall feel no quietness in his body, neither shall he reserve of that which he desired. |
[20]For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself. |
| [21]There shall none of his meat be left: therefore none shall hope for his goods. |
[21]There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay. |
| [22]When he shall be filled with his abundance, he shall be in pain , and the hand of all the wicked shall assail him. |
[22]In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him. |
| [23]He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall send upon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rain upon him, even upon his meat. |
[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 shall flee from the iron weapons, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. |
[24]He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass. |
| [25]The arrow is drawn out, and cometh forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so fear cometh upon him. |
[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 shall be hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blown shall devour him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shall be destroyed. |
[26]All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent. |
| [27]The heaven shall declare his wickedness, and the earth shall rise up against him. |
[27]Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him. |
| [28]The increase of his house shall go away: it shall flow away in the day of his wrath. |
[28]Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger. |
| [29]This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage that he shall have of God for his words. |
[29]This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God. |