en_wbms - Job 20 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ And then Zophar the Naamathite answered, and said,

² Therefore my thoughts diverse come one after another; and the mind is ravished into diverse things.

³ I shall hear the teaching, by which thou reprovest me; and the spirit of mine understanding shall answer me.

⁴ I know this from the beginning, since man was set on [the] earth,

⁵ that the praising of wicked men is short, and the joy of an hypocrite is at the likeness of a point soon passing.

⁶ Though his pride go up into heaven, and his head toucheth the clouds,

⁷ he shall be lost in the end, as a dunghill; and, they that have seen him, shall say, Where is he?

⁸ As a dream flying away, or soon forgotten, he shall not be found; he shall pass as the sight of nights.

⁹ The eye that saw him shall not see him again; and his place shall no more behold him.

¹⁰ His sons shall be all-broken with neediness; and his hands shall yield to him his sorrow.

¹¹ His bones shall be [full-]filled with the vices of his young waxing age; and they shall sleep with him in dust.

¹² For when evil was sweet in his mouth, he hid it under his tongue.

¹³ He shall spare it, and shall not forsake it; and he shall hide it in his throat.

¹⁴ His bread in his womb shall be turned into the gall of snakes within him.

¹⁵ He shall vomit, or cast, out the riches which he hath devoured; and God shall draw those riches out of his womb.

¹⁶ He shall suck the gall of snakes; and the tongue of an adder shall slay him.

¹⁷ See he not the streams of the flood, of the strand [or stream] of honey, and of butter.

¹⁸ He shall suffer pains for all things which he hath done, nevertheless he shall not be wasted by those pains, but ever endure; and after the multitude of his findings, so shall he suffer.

¹⁹ For he brake, and made naked the house of the poor man; he ravished it, and builded it not.

²⁰ And his womb was not yet [ful]-filled; and when he hath that, that he coveted, he may not hold it in possession.

²¹ There be left nothing of his meat; and therefore nothing shall dwell of his goods.

²² When he is full-filled with riches, yet he shall be made strait in covet-ousness; he shall burn in it, and all sorrow shall fall in upon him.

²³ I would, that his womb be filled, that he send out into him the wrath of his strong vengeance, and rain his battle upon him.

²⁴ He shall flee iron armours [or arms], and he shall fall into a brazen bow.

²⁵ Which is led, or taken out of his sheath, or case, and this bow going out, and shining as lightning, shall smite him in bitterness; horrible fears shall go, and come upon him.

²⁶ All darknesses be hid in his privates [or private things]; fire, which is not tended, shall devour him; he shall be tormented and left in his tabernacle.

²⁷ Heavens shall show his wicked-ness; and earth shall rise up alto-gether against him.

²⁸ The seed, or generation, of his house shall be open; it shall be drawn down in the day of the strong venge-ance of the Lord.

²⁹ This is the part of a wicked man, which is given to him of God, and the heritage of his words is also of the Lord.