Job 20 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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

Job 20:1

Job 20:1And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --

Job 20:2

Job 20:2Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.

Job 20:3

Job 20:3The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:

Job 20:4

Job 20:4This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

Job 20:5

Job 20:5That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

Job 20:6

Job 20:6Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike --

Job 20:7

Job 20:7As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: 'Where is he?'

Job 20:8

Job 20:8As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

Job 20:9

Job 20:9The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.

Job 20:10

Job 20:10His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.

Job 20:11

Job 20:11His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.

Job 20:12

Job 20:12Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,

Job 20:13

Job 20:13Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,

Job 20:14

Job 20:14His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps is in his heart.

Job 20:15

Job 20:15Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.

Job 20:16

Job 20:16Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.

Job 20:17

Job 20:17He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.

Job 20:18

Job 20:18He is giving back what he laboured for, And doth not consume it; As a bulwark is his exchange, and he exults not.

Job 20:19

Job 20:19For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

Job 20:20

Job 20:20For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.

Job 20:21

Job 20:21There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.

Job 20:22

Job 20:22In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

Job 20:23

Job 20:23It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.

Job 20:24

Job 20:24He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.

Job 20:25

Job 20:25One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him are terrors.

Job 20:26

Job 20:26All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.

Job 20:27

Job 20:27Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.

Job 20:28

Job 20:28Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.

Job 20:29

Job 20:29This is the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Job 20 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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

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