Job 20
1 Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,
そこでナアマびとゾパルは答えて言った、
2 For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.
「これによって、わたしは答えようとの思いを起し、これがために心中しきりに騒ぎ立つ。
3 I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.
わたしはわたしをはずかしめる非難を聞く、しかし、わたしの悟りの霊がわたしに答えさせる。
4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,
あなたはこの事を知らないのか、昔から地の上に人の置かれてよりこのかた、
5 That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?
悪しき人の勝ち誇はしばらくであって、神を信じない者の楽しみはただつかのまであることを。
6 Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;
たといその高さが天に達し、その頭が雲におよんでも、
7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
彼はおのれの糞のように、とこしえに滅び、彼を見た者は言うであろう、『彼はどこにおるか』と。
8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.
彼は夢のように飛び去って、再び見ることはない。彼は夜の幻のように追い払われるであろう。
9 The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.
彼を見た目はかさねて彼を見ることがなく、彼のいた所も再び彼を見ることがなかろう。
10 His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.
その子らは貧しい者に恵みを求め、その手は彼の貨財を償うであろう。
11 His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.
その骨には若い力が満ちている、しかしそれは彼と共にちりに伏すであろう。
12 Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;
たとい悪は彼の口に甘く、これを舌の裏にかくし、
13 Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;
これを惜しんで捨てることなく、口の中に含んでいても、
14 His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
その食物は彼の腹の中で変り、彼の内で毒蛇の毒となる。
15 He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
彼は貨財をのんでも、またそれを吐き出す、神がそれを彼の腹から押し出されるからだ。
16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
彼は毒蛇の毒を吸い、まむしの舌は彼を殺すであろう。
17 Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.
彼は蜜と凝乳の流れる川々を見ることができない。
18 He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
彼はほねおって獲たものを返して、それを食うことができない。その商いによって得た利益をもって楽しむことができない。
19 Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
彼が貧しい者をしえたげ、これを捨てたからだ。彼は家を奪い取っても、それを建てることができない。
20 There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.
彼の欲張りは足ることを知らぬゆえ、その楽しむ何物をも救うことができないであろう。
21 He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.
彼が残して食べなかった物とては一つもない。それゆえ、その繁栄はながく続かないであろう。
22 Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.
その力の満ちている時、彼は窮境に陥り、悩みの手がことごとく彼の上に臨むであろう。
23 God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
彼がその腹を満たそうとすれば、神はその激しい怒りを送って、それを彼の上に降り注ぎ、彼の食物とされる。
24 He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;
彼は鉄の武器を免れても、青銅の矢は彼を射通すであろう。
25 He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.
彼がこれをその身から引き抜けば、きらめく矢じりがその肝から出てきて、恐れが彼の上に臨む。
26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.
もろもろの暗黒が彼の宝物のためにたくわえられ、人が吹き起したものでない火が彼を焼きつくし、その天幕に残っている者を滅ぼすであろう。
27 The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.
天は彼の罪をあらわし、地は起って彼を攻めるであろう。
28 The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.
その家の財産は奪い去られ、神の怒りの日に消えうせるであろう。
29 This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.
これが悪しき人の神から受ける分、神によって定められた嗣業である」。
