Job 20:1-29 LSV

[1] And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says: [2] “Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, || And because of my sensations in me. [3] I hear the discipline of my shame, || And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer: [4] Have you known this 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 excellence goes up to the heavens, || He strikes his head against a cloud— [7] He perishes as his own dung forever, || His beholders say, Where [is] he? [8] He flees as a dream, and they do not find him, || And he is driven away as a vision of the night, [9] The eye has not seen him, and does not add. And his place does not behold him again. [10] His sons oppress the poor, || And his hands give back his wealth. [11] His bones have been full of his youth, and it lies down with him on the dust. [12] Though he sweetens evil in his mouth, hides it under his tongue, [13] has pity on it, and does not forsake it, and keeps it back in the midst of his palate, [14] his food is turned in his bowels, the bitterness of cobras [is] in his heart. [15] He has swallowed wealth, and vomits it. God drives it out from his belly. [16] He sucks [the] gall of cobras, the tongue of a viper slays him. [17] He does not look on streams, || Flowing of brooks of honey and butter. [18] He is giving back [what] he labored for, and does not consume [it]; As a bulwark [is] his exchange, and he does not exult. [19] For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, || He has taken a house away violently, || And he does not build it. [20] For he has not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he does not deliver himself. [21] There is not a remnant to his food, || Therefore his good does not stay. [22] In the fullness of his sufficiency he is constricted. Every perverse hand meets him. [23] It comes to pass, at the filling of his belly, || He sends forth against him || The fierceness of His anger, || Indeed, He rains on him in his eating. [24] He flees from an iron weapon, || A bow of bronze passes through him. [25] One has drawn, || And it comes out from the body, || And a glittering weapon proceeds from his gall. Terrors [are] on him. [26] All darkness is hid for his treasures, || A fire not blown consumes him, || The remnant is broken in his tent. [27] The heavens reveal his iniquity, || And earth is raising itself against him. [28] The increase of his house is removed, || 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.”