Job 20

¹ Zophar from Naamah con answer me say:

² Job, you vex me. Now I wan answer you on time.

³ Wetin you talk na insult, but I know how I go reply you.

⁴ For sure you know say from old days, when God first create human being on top earth,

⁵ wicked people no dey happy for long.

⁶ Dem fit grow great, make dem high reach sky, make dem great so tey their head dey reach cloud,

⁷ but dem go blow commot like dust. Those wey been know them before go wonder where dem don go.

⁸ Dem go disappear like dream, like vision for night, and nobody go ever see them again.

⁹ The wicked go disappear from where dem dey live before;

¹⁰ and their children go give back wetin dem steal from the poor.

¹¹ Their body been dey young and strong before, but soon dem go turn dust.

¹² Evil dey taste good to them

¹³ so tey dem dey keep some for their mouth to enjoy the flavor.

¹⁴ But for their belle the food dey turn bitter, e dey bitter like poison.

¹⁵ The wicked dey vomit the wealth wey dem steal; God dey take am back, even for inside their belle.

¹⁶ Wetin evil people swallow be like poison; e dey kill them like snakebite.

¹⁷ Dem no go live to see the river of olive oil or stream wey dey flow with milk and honey.

¹⁸ Dem go need to give up everything dem don work for; dem no go get chance to enjoy their wealth,

¹⁹ because dem dey suffer the poor and seize house wey another person build.

²⁰ dem dey greedy and dem no dey satisfied.

²¹ When dem chop, and dem no dey chop remain, but now their property don end.

²² Even if dem get plenty, trouble go destroy everything dem get.

²³ Make dem chop all dem want! God go use vex punish them.

²⁴ When dem try escape from iron sword, bronze bow go shoot them down.

²⁵ Arrow go chuk them for body; the shiny point dey drip with their blood, and terror dey catch their heart.

²⁶ Everything wey dem save don destroy; fire wey human being no make dey burn them and all their family.

²⁷ Heaven dey expose their sin, and the earth dey give testimony against them.

²⁸ Flood of God anger go destroy all their wealth.

²⁹ Na fate of the wicked people be this, the destiny wey God dey assign to them.