Job 20
1 And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
| ויען צפר הנעמתי ויאמר׃ |
2 Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.
| לכן שעפי ישיבוני ובעבור חושי בי׃ |
3 I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.
| מוסר כלמתי אשמע ורוח מבינתי יענני׃ |
4 Knowest thou [not] this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,
| הזאת ידעת מני עד מני שים אדם עלי ארץ׃ |
5 The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?
| כי רננת רשעים מקרוב ושמחת חנף עדי רגע׃ |
6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,
| אם יעלה לשמים שיאו וראשו לעב יגיע׃ |
7 Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
| כגללו לנצח יאבד ראיו יאמרו איו׃ |
8 He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.
| כחלום יעוף ולא ימצאוהו וידד כחזיון לילה׃ |
9 The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.
| עין שזפתו ולא תוסיף ולא עוד תשורנו מקומו׃ |
10 His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.
| בניו ירצו דלים וידיו תשבנה אונו׃ |
11 His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
| עצמותיו מלאו עלומו ועמו על עפר תשכב׃ |
12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth [and] he hide it under his tongue,
| אם תמתיק בפיו רעה יכחידנה תחת לשונו׃ |
13 [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,
| יחמל עליה ולא יעזבנה וימנענה בתוך חכו׃ |
14 His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.
| לחמו במעיו נהפך מרורת פתנים בקרבו׃ |
15 He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
| חיל בלע ויקאנו מבטנו יורשנו אל׃ |
16 He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.
| ראש פתנים יינק תהרגהו לשון אפעה׃ |
17 He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.
| אל ירא בפלגות נהרי נחלי דבש וחמאה׃ |
18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice [therein].
| משיב יגע ולא יבלע כחיל תמורתו ולא יעלס׃ |
19 For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.
| כי רצץ עזב דלים בית גזל ולא יבנהו׃ |
20 Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.
| כי לא ידע שלו בבטנו בחמודו לא ימלט׃ |
21 Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
| אין שריד לאכלו על כן לא יחיל טובו׃ |
22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.
| במלאות שפקו יצר לו כל יד עמל תבואנו׃ |
23 It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.
| יהי למלא בטנו ישלח בו חרון אפו וימטר עלימו בלחומו׃ |
24 If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.
| יברח מנשק ברזל תחלפהו קשת נחושה׃ |
25 He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
| שלף ויצא מגוה וברק ממררתו יהלך עליו אמים׃ |
26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.
| כל חשך טמון לצפוניו תאכלהו אש לא נפח ירע שריד באהלו׃ |
27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
| יגלו שמים עונו וארץ מתקוממה לו׃ |
28 The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger.
| יגל יבול ביתו נגרות ביום אפו׃ |
29 This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.
| זה חלק אדם רשע מאלהים ונחלת אמרו מאל׃ |
