Zophar's Second Speech
3 I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.
3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
3 “I listened to (A)the reproof which insults me,And the spirit of my understanding makes me answer.
3 Whenever I hear an insulting rebuke, I respond from my spirit because I understand."
A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long
4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,
4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
4 Don’t you know that ever since antiquity,from the time man was placed on earth,
4 "Haven't you known this from ancient times, since mankind was placed on the earth?
8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
8 “He flies away like a (H)dream, and they cannot find him;Even like a vision of the night he is (I)chased away.
8 He will fly away like a dream and never be found;he will be chased away like a vision in the night.(F)
8 He'll vanish like a dream, and no one will find him; he will be chased away like a night vision."
12 Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;
12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
12 Though evil tastes sweet in his mouthand he conceals it under his tongue,
12 Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth, though he conceals it under his tongue,
14 His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
14 yet the food in his stomach turnsinto cobras’ venom inside him.
14 his food will turn rancid in his stomach it will become a cobra's poison inside him.
15 He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
15 He swallows wealth but must vomit it up;God will force it from his stomach.
15 "Though he swallows wealth, he will vomit it; God will dislodge it from his stomach.
18 He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
18 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.
18 “He (T)returns what he has attainedAnd cannot swallow it;As to the riches of his trading,He cannot even enjoy them.
18 He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it;he doesn’t enjoy the profits from his trading.
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,
19 Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
19 because he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he didn't build.
22 Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.
22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
22 “In the fullness of his plenty he will be cramped;The (X)hand of everyone who suffers will come against him.
22 At the height of his success(g) distress will come to him;(O)the full weight of misery(h) will crush him.
22 Even though he is satiated and self-sufficient, he suffers everyone in any sort of trouble will attack him.
23 God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
23 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.
23 “When he (Y)fills his belly,God will send His fierce anger on himAnd will (Z)rain it on him (l)while he is eating.
23 When he fills his stomach,God will send His burning anger against him,raining(P) it down on him while he is eating.(i)
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.
24 He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;
24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
24 If he flees from an iron weapon,an arrow from a bronze bow will pierce him.
24 Though he dodges an iron weapon, a bronze arrow will pierce him.
25 He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.
25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
25 “It is drawn forth and comes out of his back,Even the glittering point from (AB)his gall.(AC)Terrors come upon him,
25 It 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.
26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.
26 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.
26 Complete (AD)darkness is held in reserve for his treasures,And unfanned (AE)fire will devour him;It will consume the survivor in his tent.
26 Total darkness is reserved for his treasures.A fire unfanned by human hands will consume(R) him;it will feed on what is left in his tent.
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.
28 The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.
28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
28 “The (AG)increase of his house will depart;His possessions will flow away (AH)in the day of His anger.
28 The possessions in his house will be removed,flowing away on the day of God’s anger.
28 A flood will wash away his house; dragging it away when God becomes angry.