# Job 20 ## Job 20:1 - [KJV] Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, - [ASV] Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, - [YLT] And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: -- ### Notes on Job 20:1 - ## Job 20:2 - [KJV] Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for *this* I make haste. - [ASV] Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me. - [YLT] Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me. ### Notes on Job 20:2 - ## Job 20:3 - [KJV] I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. - [ASV] I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me. - [YLT] The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer: ### Notes on Job 20:3 - ## Job 20:4 - [KJV] Knowest thou *not* this of old, since man was placed upon earth, - [ASV] Knowest thou *not* this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth, - [YLT] This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth? ### Notes on Job 20:4 - ## Job 20:5 - [KJV] That the triumphing of the wicked *is* short, and the joy of the hypocrite *but* for a moment? - [ASV] That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment? - [YLT] That the singing of the wicked *is* short, And the joy of the profane for a moment, ### Notes on Job 20:5 - ## Job 20:6 - [KJV] Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; - [ASV] Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds; - [YLT] Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike -- ### Notes on Job 20:6 - ## Job 20:7 - [KJV] *Yet* he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where *is* he? - [ASV] Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he? - [YLT] As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: 'Where *is* he?' ### Notes on Job 20:7 - ## Job 20:8 - [KJV] He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. - [ASV] He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. - [YLT] As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night, ### Notes on Job 20:8 - ## Job 20:9 - [KJV] The eye also *which* saw him shall *see him* no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. - [ASV] The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him. - [YLT] The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him. ### Notes on Job 20:9 - ## Job 20:10 - [KJV] His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. - [ASV] His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his hands shall give back his wealth. - [YLT] His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth. ### Notes on Job 20:10 - ## Job 20:11 - [KJV] His bones are full *of the sin* of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. - [ASV] His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust. - [YLT] His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down. ### Notes on Job 20:11 - ## Job 20:12 - [KJV] Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, *though* he hide it under his tongue; - [ASV] Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue, - [YLT] Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue, ### Notes on Job 20:12 - ## Job 20:13 - [KJV] *Though* he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: - [ASV] Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth; - [YLT] Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate, ### Notes on Job 20:13 - ## Job 20:14 - [KJV] *Yet* his meat in his bowels is turned, *it is* the gall of asps within him. - [ASV] Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him. - [YLT] His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps *is* in his heart. ### Notes on Job 20:14 - ## Job 20:15 - [KJV] He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. - [ASV] He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly. - [YLT] Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out. ### Notes on Job 20:15 - ## Job 20:16 - [KJV] He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. - [ASV] He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him. - [YLT] Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper. ### Notes on Job 20:16 - ## Job 20:17 - [KJV] He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. - [ASV] He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter. - [YLT] He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter. ### Notes on Job 20:17 - ## Job 20:18 - [KJV] 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*. - [ASV] That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice. - [YLT] He is giving back *what* he laboured for, And doth not consume *it*; As a bulwark *is* his exchange, and he exults not. ### Notes on Job 20:18 - ## Job 20:19 - [KJV] Because he hath oppressed *and* hath forsaken the poor; *because* he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; - [ASV] For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. - [YLT] For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it. ### Notes on Job 20:19 - ## Job 20:20 - [KJV] Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. - [ASV] Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth. - [YLT] For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself. ### Notes on Job 20:20 - ## Job 20:21 - [KJV] There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. - [ASV] There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure. - [YLT] There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay. ### Notes on Job 20:21 - ## Job 20:22 - [KJV] In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. - [ASV] In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him. - [YLT] In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him. ### Notes on Job 20:22 - ## Job 20:23 - [KJV] *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. - [ASV] When he is about to fill his belly, *God* will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating. - [YLT] 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. ### Notes on Job 20:23 - ## Job 20:24 - [KJV] He shall flee from the iron weapon, *and* the bow of steel shall strike him through. - [ASV] He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through. - [YLT] He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass. ### Notes on Job 20:24 - ## Job 20:25 - [KJV] It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors *are* upon him. - [ASV] He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him. - [YLT] One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him *are* terrors. ### Notes on Job 20:25 - ## Job 20:26 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown *by man* shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent. - [YLT] All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent. ### Notes on Job 20:26 - ## Job 20:27 - [KJV] The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. - [ASV] The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him. - [YLT] Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him. ### Notes on Job 20:27 - ## Job 20:28 - [KJV] The increase of his house shall depart, *and his goods* shall flow away in the day of his wrath. - [ASV] The increase of his house shall depart; *His goods* shall flow away in the day of his wrath. - [YLT] Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger. ### Notes on Job 20:28 - ## Job 20:29 - [KJV] This *is* the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. - [ASV] This is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the heritage appointed unto him by God. - [YLT] This *is* the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God. ### Notes on Job 20:29 -