Job 20
1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:
| ויען צפר הנעמתי ויאמר |
2 Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of mine agitation that is in me.
| לכן שעפי ישיבוני ובעבור חושי בי |
3 I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame, but out of my understanding my spirit answereth me.
| מוסר כלמתי אשמע ורוח מבינתי יענני |
4 Knowest thou not this of old time, since man was placed upon earth,
| הזאת ידעת מני-עד מני שים אדם עלי-ארץ |
5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
| כי רננת רשעים מקרוב ושמחת חנף עדי-רגע |
6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
| אם-יעלה לשמים שיאו וראשו לעב יגיע |
7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; they that have seen him shall say: 'Where is he?'
| כגללו לנצח יאבד ראיו יאמרו איו |
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
| כחלום יעוף ולא ימצאהו וידד כחזיון לילה |
9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
| עין שזפתו ולא תוסיף ולא-עוד תשורנו מקומו |
10 His children shall appease the poor, and his hands shall restore his wealth.
| בניו ירצו דלים וידיו תשבנה אונו |
11 His bones are full of his youth, 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, though he hide it under his tongue;
| אם-תמתיק בפיו רעה-- יכחידנה תחת לשנו |
13 Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
| יחמל עליה ולא יעזבנה וימנענה בתוך חכו |
14 Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
| לחמו במעיו נהפך מרורת פתנים בקרבו |
15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly.
| חיל בלע ויקאנו מבטנו ירשנו אל |
16 He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.
| ראש-פתנים יינק תהרגהו לשון אפעה |
17 He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and curd.
| אל-ירא בפלגות-- נהרי נחלי דבש וחמאה |
18 That which he laboured for shall he give back, and shall not swallow it down; according to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.
| משיב יגע ולא יבלע כחיל תמורתו ולא יעלס |
19 For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
| כי-רצץ עזב דלים בית גזל ולא יבנהו |
20 Because he knew no quietness within him, in his greed he suffered nought to escape,
| כי לא-ידע שלו בבטנו בחמודו לא ימלט |
21 There was nothing left that he devoured not — 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; the hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.
| במלאות שפקו יצר לו כל-יד עמל תבאנו |
23 It shall be for the filling of his belly; He shall cast the fierceness of His wrath upon him, and shall cause it to rain upon him into his flesh.
| יהי למלא בטנו--ישלח-בו חרון אפו וימטר עלימו בלחומו |
24 If he flee from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.
| יברח מנשק ברזל תחלפהו קשת נחושה |
25 He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; yea, the glittering point cometh 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 by man shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that 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, his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
| יגל יבול ביתו נגרות ביום אפו |
29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
| זה חלק-אדם רשע--מאלהים ונחלת אמרו מאל |
