Job 20 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Zophar Says, "The Triumph of the Wicked Is Short"

Job 20:1

Job 20:1And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

Job 20:2

Job 20:2Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.

Job 20:3

Job 20:3I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and my spirit answereth me by mine understanding.

Job 20:4

Job 20:4Knowest thou not this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,

Job 20:5

Job 20:5The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?

Job 20:6

Job 20:6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,

Job 20:7

Job 20:7Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Job 20:8

Job 20:8He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.

Job 20:9

Job 20:9The eye which saw him shall see him not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.

Job 20:10

Job 20:10His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.

Job 20:11

Job 20:11His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

Job 20:12

Job 20:12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue,

Job 20:13

Job 20:13Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,

Job 20:14

Job 20:14His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.

Job 20:15

Job 20:15He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

Job 20:16

Job 20:16He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.

Job 20:17

Job 20:17He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.

Job 20:18

Job 20:18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice therein.

Job 20:19

Job 20:19For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.

Job 20:20

Job 20:20Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.

Job 20:21

Job 20:21Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Job 20:22

Job 20:22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.

Job 20:23

Job 20:23It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.

Job 20:24

Job 20:24If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.

Job 20:25

Job 20:25He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

Job 20:26

Job 20:26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.

Job 20:27

Job 20:27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

Job 20:28

Job 20:28The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger.

Job 20:29

Job 20:29This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Job 20 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Zophar Says, "The Triumph of the Wicked Is Short"

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