20:1 拿玛人琐法回答说，
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,　

20:2 我心中急躁，所以我的思念叫我回答。
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.　

20:3 我已听见那羞辱我，责备我的话。我的悟性叫我回答。
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.　

20:4 你岂不知亘古以来，自从人生在地。
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,　

20:5 恶人夸胜是暂时的，不敬虔人的喜乐，不过转眼之间吗。
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?　

20:6 他的尊荣虽达到天上，头虽顶到云中，
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;　

20:7 他终必灭亡，像自己的粪一样。素来见他的人要说，他在那里呢。
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?　

20:8 他必飞去如梦，不再寻见，速被赶去，如夜间的异象。
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.　

20:9 亲眼见过他的，必不再见他。他的本处也再见不着他。
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.　

20:10 他的儿女要求穷人的恩。他的手要赔还不义之财。
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.　

20:11 他的骨头虽然有青年之力，却要和他一同躺卧在尘土中。
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.　

20:12 他口内虽以恶为甘甜，藏在舌头底下。
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;　

20:13 爱恋不舍，含在口中。
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:　

20:14 他的食物在肚里却要化为酸，在他里面成为虺蛇的恶毒。
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.　

20:15 他吞了财宝，还要吐出。神要从他腹中掏出来。
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.　

20:16 他必吸饮虺蛇的毒气。蝮蛇的舌头也必杀他。
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.　

20:17 流奶与蜜之河，他不得再见。
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.　

20:18 他劳碌得来的要赔还，不得享用（原文作吞下），不能照所得的财货欢乐。
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.　

20:19 他欺压穷人，且又离弃。强取非自己所盖的房屋（或作强取房屋不得再建造）。
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;　

20:20 他因贪而无厌，所喜悦的连一样也不能保守。
Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.　

20:21 其余的没有一样他不吞灭，所以他的福乐不能长久。
There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.　

20:22 他在满足有余的时候，必到狭窄的地步。凡受苦楚的人，都必加手在他身上。
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.　

20:23 他正要充满肚腹的时候，神必将猛烈的忿怒，降在他身上。正在他吃饭的时候，要将这忿怒像雨降在他身上。
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.　

20:24 他要躲避铁器。铜弓的箭要将他射透。
He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.　

20:25 他把箭一抽，就从他身上出来。发光的箭头从他胆中出来，有惊惶临在他身上。
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.　

20:26 他的财宝归于黑暗。人所不吹的火要把他烧灭，要把他帐棚中所剩下的烧毁。
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.　

20:27 天要显明他的罪孽，地要兴起攻击他。
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.　

20:28 他的家产必然过去。神发怒的日子，他的货物都要消灭。
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.　

20:29 这是恶人从神所得的分，是神为他所定的产业。
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.