Job 20
1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
| ויען צפר הנעמתי ויאמר |
2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make haste.
| לכן שעפי ישיבוני ובעבור חושי בי |
3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
| מוסר כלמתי אשמע ורוח מבינתי יענני |
4 Knowest thou [not] this of old, 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 hypocrite [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 which 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 also [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 seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
| בניו ירצו דלים וידיו תשבנה אונו |
11 His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which 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 forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
| יחמל עליה ולא יעזבנה וימנענה בתוך חכו |
14 [Yet] his meat 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 see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
| אל-ירא בפלגות-- נהרי נחלי דבש וחמאה |
18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein].
| משיב יגע ולא יבלע כחיל תמורתו ולא יעלס |
19 Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
| כי-רצץ עזב דלים בית גזל ולא יבנהו |
20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
| כי לא-ידע שלו בבטנו בחמודו לא ימלט |
21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
| אין-שריד לאכלו על-כן לא-יחיל טובו |
22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
| במלאות שפקו יצר לו כל-יד עמל תבאנו |
23 [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating.
| יהי למלא בטנו--ישלח-בו חרון אפו וימטר עלימו בלחומו |
24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of steel shall strike him through.
| יברח מנשק ברזל תחלפהו קשת נחושה |
25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him.
| שלף ויצא מגוה וברק ממררתו יהלך עליו אמים |
26 All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
| כל-חשך טמון לצפוניו תאכלהו אש לא-נפח ירע שריד באהלו |
27 The heaven 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, [and 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 |
