욥기 20장 Coverdale Bible
- 1 Then answered Sophar the Naamathite, and sayde:
- 2 For the same cause do my thoughtes compell me to answere. And why? my mynde is tossed here and there.
- 3 I haue sufficiently herde the checkynge & reprofe, therfore am I purposed to make answere after my vnderstodinge.
- 4 Knowest thou not this, namely: that from the begynninge (euer sence the creacion of man vpon earth)
- 5 the prayse of the vngodly hath bene shorte, and that the ioye of Ypocrytes continued but ye twincklinge of an eye?
- 6 Though he be magnified vp to the heaue, so that his heade reacheth vnto the cloudes:
- 7 yet he perisheth at the last like donge: In so moch yt they which haue sene him, saye: Where is he?
- 8 He vanysheth as a dreame, so that he can nomore be founde, & passeth awaye as a vision in ye night.
- 9 So that the eye which sawe him before, getteth now no sight of him, & his place knoweth him nomore.
- 10 His childre go a begginge, their handes bringe the to sorow and heuynesse.
- 11 From his youth his bones are ful of vyce, which shal lie downe wt him in ye earth.
- 12 Whe wickednesse is swete in his mouth, he hydeth it vnder his tonge.
- 13 That he fauoureth, that wyll he not forsake, but kepeth it close in his throte.
- 14 The meate that he eateth, shalbe turned to the poyson of serpetes within his body.
- 15 The riches yt he deuoureth, shall he perbreake agayne, for God shal drawe them out of his bely.
- 16 The serpentes heade shall sucke him, and the adders tonge shall slaye him:
- 17 so that he shal nomore se the ryuers and brokes of hony and butter:
- 18 But laboure shal he, & yet haue nothinge to eate. Greate trauayle shal he make for riches, but he shal not enioye them.
- 19 And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not buylded them.
- 20 His bely coude neuer be fylled, therfore shall he perish in his couetousnesse.
- 21 He deuoured so gredely, yt he left nothinge behynde, therfore his goodes shal not prospere.
- 22 Though he had plenteousnesse of euerythinge, yet was he poore, & therfore he is but a wretch on euery syde.
- 23 For though ye wicked haue neuer so moch to fyll his bely, yet God shal sende his wrath vpon him, and cause his battayll to rayne ouer him:
- 24 so that yf he fle the yron weapens, he shall be shott with the stele bowe.
- 25 The arowe shal be taken forth, & go out at his backe, and a glisteringe swearde thorow ye gall of him, feare shal come vpo him.
- 26 There shal no darcknes be able to hyde him. An vnkyndled fyre shal consume him, and loke what remayneth in his house, it shall be destroyed.
- 27 The heauen shall declare his wickednesse, & the earth shal take parte agaynst him.
- 28 The substaunce that he hath in his house, shalbe taken awaye and perish, in the daye of the LORDES wrath.
- 29 This is the porcion that ye wicked shal haue of God, and the heretage that he maye loke for of the LORDE.