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| 1 Then responded Zophar the Naamathite, and said:– |
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| 2 Not so, do my thoughts answer me, and to this end, is my haste within me: |
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| 3 The correction meant to confound me, I must hear, but, the spirit–out of my understanding, will give me a reply. |
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| 4 Knowest thou, this–from antiquity, from the placing of man upon earth:– |
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| 5 That, the joy-shout of the lawless, is short, and, the rejoicing of the impious, for a moment? |
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| 6 Though his elevation mount up to the heavens, and, his head, to the clouds, doth reach,
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| 7 Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall say, Where is he? |
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| 8 Like a dream, shall he fly away, and they shall not find him, yea he shall be chased away, as a vision of the night. |
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| 9 The eye that hath scanned him, shall not do it again, neither, any more, shall his place behold him: |
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| 10 His children, shall seek the favour of the poor, and, his own hand, shall give back his wealth. |
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| 11 His bones, are full of youthful vigour, yet, with him–in the dust, shall it lie down. |
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| 12 Though, a sweet taste in his mouth, be given by vice, though he hide it under his tongue; |
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| 13 Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but retain it in the midst of his mouth, |
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| 14 His food, in his stomach, is changed, the gall of adders, within him! |
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| 15 Wealth, hath he swallowed, and hath vomited the same, Out of his belly, shall, GOD, drive it forth: |
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| 16 The poison of adders, shall he suck, The tongue of the viper shall slay him; |
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| 17 Let him not see in the channels the flowings of torrents of honey and milk. |
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| 18 In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult! |
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| 19 For he hath oppressed–hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild. |
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| 20 Surely he hath known no peace in his inmost mind,–With his dearest thing, shall he not get away: |
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| 21 Nothing escaped his devouring greed,–For this cause, shall his prosperity not continue: |
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| 22 When his abundance is gone, he shall be in straits, All the power of distress, shall come upon him. |
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| 23 It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will thrust at him the glow of his anger, and rain [it] upon him for his punishment. |
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| 24 He shall flee from the armour of iron,–There shall pierce him, a bow of bronze! |
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| 25 He hath drawn it out, and it hath come forth out of his back,–yea the flashing arrow-head, out of his gall, There shall march on him–terrors: |
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| 26 Every misfortune, is laid up for his treasures,–There shall consume, a fire, not blown up,–it shall destroy what remaineth in his tent: |
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| 27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and, the earth, be rising up against him: |
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| 28 The increase of his house shall vanish, melting away in the day of his anger. |
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| 29 This, is the portion of the lawless man, from God, and the inheritance decreed him from the Mighty One. |
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