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Job 20
Septuagint (Brenton, 1851) 20 compared with King James Version 20
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1Then Sophar the Minæan answered and said,
1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus: neither do ye understand more than I .
2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
3I will hear my shameful reproach; and the spirit of my understanding answers me .
3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
4Hast thou [not] known these things of old, from the time that man was set upon the earth?
4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, and the joy of transgressors is destruction:
5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
6although his gifts should go up to heaven, and his sacrifice reach the clouds.
6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
7For when he shall seem to be now established, then he shall utterly perish : and they that knew him shall say, Where is he?
7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
8Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found; and he has fled like a vision of the night.
8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9The eye has looked upon him, but shall not [see him] again; and his place shall no longer perceive him.
9The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10Let [his] inferiors destroy his children , and let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow.
10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
11His bones have been filled with [vigour of] his youth, and it shall 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 be sweet in his mouth, [though] he will hide it under his tongue;
12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
13though he will not spare it, and will not leave it, but will keep it in the midst of his throat:
13Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
14yet he shall not at all be able to help himself; the gall of an asp is in his belly.
14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
15[His] wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up; a messenger [of wrath] shall drag him out of his house.
15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16And let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the serpent's tongue slay him.
16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
17Let him not see the milk of the pastures, nor the supplies of honey and butter.
17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
18He has laboured unprofitably and in vain, [for] wealth of which he shall not taste: [it is] as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he cannot swallow.
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.