Verse
KJV
King James Version
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
Then
answered
Zophar the Naamathite ,
and said,
And
Zophar the Naamathite answereth
and saith:
--
Therefore do
my thoughts cause me to answer, and for
this
I
make
haste
.
Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because
of
my
sensations
in
me
.
I
have
heard
the check
of my reproach
, and the spirit of my
understanding causeth
me to answer .
The chastisement
of my shame
I
hear
, And the spirit of mine
understanding Doth
cause
me to answer :
Knowest
thou
not
this of
old,
since man was
placed
upon
earth ,
This hast
thou
known
from
antiquity?
Since the
placing
of
man on
earth ?
That the triumphing
of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite
but
for a moment ?
That the singing
of the wicked `
is '
short, And the joy of the profane
for a moment ,
Though his excellency mount
up to the heavens, and his head reach
unto
the
clouds;
Though his excellency go
up to the heavens, And his head against
a
cloud
he
strike
--
Yet
he
shall
perish
for
ever
like
his own dung :
they
which
have
seen
him
shall
say
, Where is he?
As
his own dung for
ever
he
doth
perish
, His
beholders
say:
`
Where `
is '
he? '
He
shall
fly
away
as a dream, and shall
not be
found:
yea
, he shall
be
chased
away as a vision of the night .
As a dream he
fleeth
, and they
find
him
not, And
he is
driven
away as a vision of the night ,
The eye also
which
saw
him
shall
see
him no
more;
neither
shall
his place any
more
behold him.
The eye hath
not
seen
him ,
and
addeth
not.
And
not
again
doth
his place behold him.
His children
shall
seek
to
please
the poor, and his hands shall
restore
their
goods
.
His sons
do
the poor oppress
, And his hands give
back
his
wealth
.
His bones are
full of the
sin
of
his youth, which
shall
lie
down
with him in
the dust.
His bones have
been
full of his youth, And
with him on
the dust it
lieth
down
.
Though wickedness
be
sweet
in his mouth, though
he
hide it under his tongue ;
Though he
doth
sweeten
evil
in his mouth, Doth
hide it under his tongue ,
Though
he
spare
it, and forsake it not;
but
keep it still
within
his mouth:
Hath
pity
on
it, and doth
not
forsake it ,
And
keep it back
in
the
midst
of
his palate,
Yet
his meat
in his bowels is turned, it
is
the gall
of asps within
him
.
His food
in his bowels is turned, The bitterness
of asps `is'
in
his
heart
.
He hath swallowed down
riches
, and he
shall
vomit them
up
again:
God
shall
cast
them
out
of
his belly.
Wealth
he hath swallowed, and doth
vomit it.
From
his belly God
driveth
it
out
.
He
shall
suck
the
poison
of asps :
the
viper's
tongue
shall
slay him.
Gall
of asps he
sucketh,
Slay him doth
the
tongue
of
a
viper
.
He shall
not see
the
rivers,
the
floods
, the
brooks of honey and butter.
He looketh
not on
rivulets
, Flowing
of
brooks of honey and butter.
That
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
.
He is
giving
back
`what'
he
laboured for, And doth
not consume
`
it ';
As
a
bulwark
`is'
his exchange
, and he exults
not.
Because
he hath
oppressed and
hath
forsaken
the poor ;
because
he hath violently
taken away an
house
which
he builded
not ;
For
he oppressed --
he
forsook
the poor ,
A
house
he hath taken violently
away ,
And
he doth
not build
it.
Surely
he shall
not feel
quietness
in his belly ,
he shall
not save
of
that
which
he
desired
.
For
he hath
not known
ease
in his belly .
With
his
desirable
thing
he delivereth
not himself
.
There shall
none
of
his meat
be
left;
therefore shall
no
man
look
for
his goods
.
There is
not
a
remnant
to
his food,
Therefore his good
doth
not
stay
.
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall
be
in
straits:
every hand of
the
wicked
shall
come
upon
him.
In the fulness of his sufficiency he is
straitened.
Every perverse
hand doth
meet
him.
When
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.
It
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.
He shall
flee
from the
iron weapon, and
the
bow of steel
shall
strike
him
through
.
He fleeth
from an
iron weapon, Pass
through
him
doth
a
bow of brass
.
It
is
drawn, and cometh out of
the body ;
yea
, the
glittering sword
cometh
out
of
his gall :
terrors
are
upon
him.
One
hath
drawn, And it
cometh out from
the body, And
a
glittering weapon
from
his gall proceedeth.
On
him `are'
terrors
.
All 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
.
All darkness is
hid for
his treasures,
Consume
him
doth
a fire not blown ,
Broken
is the
remnant
in his tent
.
The
heaven
shall
reveal his iniquity ;
and the
earth shall
rise
up
against him.
Reveal do
the
heavens
his iniquity ,
And earth is
raising
itself
against him.
The increase of his house shall
depart
, and
his
goods
shall
flow
away
in the
day of his wrath
.
Remove
doth
the increase of his house, Poured
forth
in a
day of His anger
.
This is the portion of a wicked man from God ,
and the
heritage
appointed unto
him by God.
This `
is '
the portion of a wicked man from God .
And an
inheritance
appointed him by God.
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