Verse 7
Job 20:7
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
7
In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?
Original Language Text
hebrew
כְּֽ֭/גֶלֲל/וֹ לָ/נֶ֣צַח יֹאבֵ֑ד רֹ֝אָ֗י/ו יֹאמְר֥וּ אַיּֽ/וֹ
English Translation
He will be cast down to destruction forever; his defenders will say, "Where is he?"
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 20 Context
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Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:
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Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different thing...
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The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall ans...
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This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,
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that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
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If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:
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In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?
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As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:
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The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.
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His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render him his sorrow.
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His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.
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For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
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He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.
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His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him.
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The riches which he hath swallowed; he shall vomit up, and God (Elohim) shall draw them out of his b...
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He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.
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(Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.)
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He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude...
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Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not bui...
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And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to po...
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There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:
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When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him...
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May his belly be filled, that God (Elohim) may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and...
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He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.
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The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the te...
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All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be a...
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The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
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The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God (Elohim)'s wr...
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This is the portion of a wicked man from God (Elohim), and the inheritance of his doings from the Lo...
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