Job 20

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

respondens autem Sophar Naamathites dixit

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

idcirco cogitationes meae variae succedunt sibi et mens in diversa rapitur

I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

doctrinam qua me arguis audiam et spiritus intellegentiae meae respondebit mihi

Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

hoc scio a principio ex quo positus est homo super terram

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

quod laus impiorum brevis sit et gaudium hypocritae ad instar puncti

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

si ascenderit usque ad caelum superbia eius et caput eius nubes tetigerit

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

quasi sterquilinium in fine perdetur et qui eum viderant dicent ubi est

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

velut somnium avolans non invenietur transiet sicut visio nocturna

The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

oculus qui eum viderat non videbit neque ultra intuebitur eum locus suus

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

filii eius adterentur egestate et manus illius reddent ei dolorem suum

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

ossa eius implebuntur vitiis adulescentiae eius et cum eo in pulverem dormient

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

cum enim dulce fuerit in ore eius malum abscondet illud sub lingua sua

Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

parcet illi et non derelinquet illud et celabit in gutture suo

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

panis eius in utero illius vertetur in fel aspidum intrinsecus

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

divitias quas devoravit evomet et de ventre illius extrahet eas Deus

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

caput aspidum suget occidet eum lingua viperae

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

non videat rivulos fluminis torrentes mellis et butyri

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.

luet quae fecit omnia nec tamen consumetur iuxta multitudinem adinventionum suarum sic et sustinebit

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

quoniam confringens nudavit pauperes domum rapuit et non aedificavit eam

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

nec est satiatus venter eius et cum habuerit quae cupierat possidere non poterit

There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

non remansit de cibo eius et propterea nihil permanebit de bonis eius

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

cum satiatus fuerit artabitur aestuabit et omnis dolor inruet in eum

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.

utinam impleatur venter eius ut emittat in eum iram furoris sui et pluat super illum bellum suum

He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

fugiet arma ferrea et inruet in arcum aereum

It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

eductus et egrediens de vagina sua et fulgurans in amaritudine sua vadent et venient super eum horribiles

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.

omnes tenebrae absconditae sunt in occultis eius devorabit eum ignis qui non succenditur adfligetur relictus in tabernaculo suo

The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

revelabunt caeli iniquitatem eius et terra consurget adversus eum

The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

apertum erit germen domus illius detrahetur in die furoris Dei

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

haec est pars hominis impii a Deo et hereditas verborum eius a Domino