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Job 20
Septuagint (LXX2012) 20 compared with World English Bible 20
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1Then Sophar the Minaean answered and said,
1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
2I did not suppose that you would answer thus: neither do you⌃ understand more than I.
2“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
3I will hear my shameful reproach; and the spirit of my understanding answers me.
3I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
4Have you [not] known these things of old, from the time that man was set upon the earth?
4Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on 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, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
6although his gifts should go up to heaven, and his sacrifice reach the clouds.
6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to 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 will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will 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 will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like 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 which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.
10Let [his] inferiors destroy his children, and let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow.
10His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth.
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 his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.
12Though evil be sweet in his mouth, [though] he will hide it under his tongue;
12“Though wickedness is 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 will not let it go, 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 food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
15[His] wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up; a messenger [of wrath] shall drag him out of his house.
15He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
16And let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the serpent's tongue kill him.
16He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
17Let him not see the milk of the pastures, nor the supplies of honey and butter.
17He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams 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 can’t swallow.
18He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.