Job 20
1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:
| آنگاه صوفر نعماتی پاسخ داد: |
2 Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of mine agitation that is in me.
| ای ایوب، بیش از این نمی‌توانم حرفهای تو را تحمل کنم و مجبورم جوابت را بدهم. |
3 I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame, but out of my understanding my spirit answereth me.
| توهین‌هایت را تحمل کرده‌ام اما الان مجبورم پاسخ تو را بدهم. |
4 Knowest thou not this of old time, since man was placed upon earth,
| مگر نمی‌دانی که از دوران قدیم که انسان بر زمین قرار داده شد خوشبختی شریران همیشه زودگذر بوده است؟ |
5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
| اگرچه مرد بدکار سرافراز گردد و شوکتش سر به فلک کشد، |
7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; they that have seen him shall say: 'Where is he?'
| ولی به‌زودی مثل فضله به دور انداخته شده، نابود خواهد گردید و کسانی که او را می‌شناختند حیران شده، خواهند گفت که او چه شد؟ |
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.
| او همچون یک رؤیا محو خواهد شد. |
9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
| دیگر هرگز نه دوستانش او را خواهند دید و نه خانواده‌اش. |
10 His children shall appease the poor, and his hands shall restore his wealth.
| فرزندانش از فقیران گدایی خواهند کرد و با زحمت و مشقت قرضهای پدرشان را خواهند پرداخت. |
11 His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
| هنوز به پیری نرسیده، خواهد مرد و استخوانهایش در خاک خواهد پوسید. |
12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
| او از طعم شرارت لذت می‌برد و آن را در دهان خود نگه داشته، مزه‌مزه می‌کند. |
13 Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
14 Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
| اما آنچه که خورده است در معده‌اش ترش می‌شود، و در شکمش به زهرِ مار تبدیل می‌گردد. |
15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly.
| ثروتی را که بلعیده، قی خواهد کرد؛ خدا آن را از شکمش بیرون خواهد کشید. |
16 He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.
| آنچه خورده است مانند زهر مار تلخ شده، طعم مرگ خواهد داشت. |
17 He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and curd.
| او دیگر از نهرهای روغن زیتون، شیر و عسل لذت نخواهد برد. |
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.
| زحماتش برای او ثمری نخواهد داشت و ثروتش باعث خوشی او نخواهد شد. |
19 For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
| زیرا به فقرا ظلم کرده، آنها را از خانه و زندگیشان محروم ساخته است. |
20 Because he knew no quietness within him, in his greed he suffered nought to escape,
| از آنچه با حرص و طمع به چنگ آورده است هرگز ارضا نخواهد شد، |
21 There was nothing left that he devoured not — therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
| و از آنچه با دزدی اندوخته است لذت نخواهد برد و کامیابی او دوام نخواهد داشت. |
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.
| وقتی به اوج کامیابی برسد بدبختی دامنگیر او خواهد شد. |
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.
| هنگامی که او می‌خورد و شکم خود را پر می‌کند، خدا خشم خود را بر او نازل خواهد کرد. |
24 If he flee from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.
| در حالی که می‌کوشد از شمشیر آهنین فرار کند، تیری از کمانی مفرغین رها شده، در بدن او فرو خواهد رفت. |
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.
| هنگامی که تیر را از بدنش بیرون می‌کشد نوک براق آن جگرش را پاره خواهد کرد و وحشت مرگ بر او چیره خواهد شد. |
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.
| دارایی او نابود خواهد شد و آتشی ناگهانی به اموالش خواهد افتاد و آنچه را که برایش باقی مانده است خواهد بلعید. |
27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
| آسمانها گناهان او را آشکار خواهند ساخت و زمین علیه او شهادت خواهد داد. |
28 The increase of his house shall depart, his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
| مال و ثروتش در اثر خشم خدا نابود خواهد گردید. |
29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
| این است سرنوشتی که خدای قادر مطلق برای بدکاران تعیین کرده است. |
