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| [1]Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said: |
[1]Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and said, |
| [2]Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of mine agitation that is in me. |
[2]Doubtless my thoughts cause me to answer, and therefore I make haste. |
| [3]I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame, but out of my understanding my spirit answereth me. |
[3]I have heard the correction of my reproach: therefore the spirit of mine understanding causeth me to answer. |
| [4]Knowest thou not this of old time, since man was placed upon earth, |
[4]Knowest thou not this of old? And since God placed man upon the earth, |
| [5]That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment? |
[5]That the rejoicing of the wicked is short, and that the joy of hypocrites is but a moment? |
| [6]Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; |
[6]Though his excellency mount up to the heaven, and his head reach unto the clouds, |
| [7]Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; they that have seen him shall say: 'Where is he?' |
[7]Yet shall he perish forever, like his dung, and they which have seen him, shall say, Where is he? |
| [8]He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. |
[8]He shall flee away as a dream, and they shall not find him, and shall pass away as a vision of the night, |
| [9]The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. |
[9]So that the eye which had seen him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more. |
| [10]His children shall appease the poor, and his hands shall restore his wealth. |
[10]His children shall flatter the poor, and his hands shall restore his substance. |
| [11]His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust. |
[11]His bones are full of the sin of his youth, and it shall lie down with him in the dust. |
| [12]Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; |
[12]When wickedness was sweet in his mouth, and he hid it under his tongue, |
| [13]Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth; |
[13]And favored it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth, |
| [14]Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. |
[14]Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of asps was in the midst of him. |
| [15]He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly. |
[15]He hath devoured substance, and he shall vomit it: for God shall draw it out of his belly. |
| [16]He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him. |
[16]He shall suck the gall of asps, and the viper's tongue shall slay him. |
| [17]He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and curd. |
[17]He shall not see the rivers, nor the floods and streams of honey and butter. |
| [18]That which he laboured for shall he give back, and shall not swallow it down; according to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice. |
[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. |
| [19]For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. |
[19]For he hath undone many: he hath forsaken the poor, and hath spoiled houses which he builded not. |
| [20]Because he knew no quietness within him, in his greed he suffered nought to escape, |
[20]Surely he shall feel no quietness in his body, neither shall he reserve of that which he desired. |
| [21]There was nothing left that he devoured not—therefore his prosperity shall not endure. |
[21]There shall none of his meat be left: therefore none shall hope for his goods. |
| [22]In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; the hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him. |
[22]When he shall be filled with his abundance, he shall be in pain , and the hand of all the wicked shall assail him. |
| [23]It shall be for the filling of his belly; He shall cast the fierceness of His wrath upon him, and shall cause it to rain upon him into his flesh. |
[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. |
| [24]If he flee from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through. |
[24]He shall flee from the iron weapons, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. |
| [25]He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall; terrors are upon him. |
[25]The arrow is drawn out, and cometh forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so fear cometh upon him. |
| [26]All darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not blown by man shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tent. |
[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. |
| [27]The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. |
[27]The heaven shall declare his wickedness, and the earth shall rise up against him. |
| [28]The increase of his house shall depart, his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. |
[28]The increase of his house shall go away: it shall flow away in the day of his wrath. |
| [29]This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. |
[29]This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage that he shall have of God for his words. |