King James Bible | International Standard Version |
1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, | 1Then Zophar from Naamath replied: |
2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. | 2"Therefore my anxious thoughts cause me to answer because I'm agitated within me. |
3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. | 3Whenever I hear an insulting rebuke, I respond from my spirit because I understand." |
4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, | 4"Haven't you known this from ancient times, since mankind was placed on the earth? |
5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? | 5The wicked triumph only briefly; the joy of the godless is momentary. |
6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; | 6Though he grow as tall as the sky, or though his head touches the clouds, |
7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? | 7he'll perish forever, like his own excrement; those who saw him will ask, 'Where is he?' |
8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. | 8He'll vanish like a dream, and no one will find him; he will be chased away like a night vision." |
9The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. | 9"An eye that gazes at him won't do so again; and his place won't even recognize him. |
10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. | 10His sons will make amends to the poor; their hands will return his wealth. |
11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. | 11Though his bones were full of youthful vigor; yet they will lie down with him in the dust. |
12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; | 12Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth, though he conceals it under his tongue, |
13Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: | 13though he savors it and delays swallowing it so he can taste it again and again in his mouth, |
14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. | 14his food will turn rancid in his stomach— it will become a cobra's poison inside him. |
15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. | 15"Though he swallows wealth, he will vomit it; God will dislodge it from his stomach. |
16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. | 16He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will slay him. |
17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. | 17He won't look at the rivers— the torrents of honey and curd. |
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. | 18"He will restore what he has attained from his work and won't consume it; he won't enjoy the profits from his business transactions, |
19Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; | 19because he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he didn't build. |
20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. | 20"Since his appetite won't quit; he won't let anything escape his lust. |
21There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. | 21Because nothing was left for him to devour, therefore his prosperity won't last. |
22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. | 22Even though he is satiated and self-sufficient, he suffers— everyone in any sort of trouble will attack him. |
23When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. | 23"It will come about that, when he has filled himself to the full, God will vent his burning anger on him; he will pour it out on him and on his body. |
24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. | 24Though he dodges an iron weapon, a bronze arrow will pierce him. |
25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. | 25It will impale him and come out through his back; the point will glisten as it protrudes through his gall bladder, and he will be terrified. |
26All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. | 26"Total darkness has been reserved for his treasures; a fire that has no need to be kindled will devour him and consume whatever remains in his possession. |
27The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. | 27Heaven will reveal his iniquity, while the earth will rise up against him. |
28The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. | 28A flood will wash away his house; dragging it away when God becomes angry. |
29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. | 29This is what the wicked person inherits from God; it is the inheritance that God appoints for him." |
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