Job 20
1 And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says:
| ויען צפר הנעמתי ויאמר׃ |
2 “Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.
| לכן שעפי ישיבוני ובעבור חושי בי׃ |
3 I hear the discipline of my shame, And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer:
| מוסר כלמתי אשמע ורוח מבינתי יענני׃ |
4 Have you known this from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?
| הזאת ידעת מני עד מני שים אדם עלי ארץ׃ |
5 That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,
| כי רננת רשעים מקרוב ושמחת חנף עדי רגע׃ |
6 Though his excellence goes up to the heavens, He strikes his head against a cloud—
| אם יעלה לשמים שיאו וראשו לעב יגיע׃ |
7 He perishes as his own dung forever, His beholders say, Where [is] he?
| כגללו לנצח יאבד ראיו יאמרו איו׃ |
8 He flees as a dream, and they do not find him, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
| כחלום יעוף ולא ימצאוהו וידד כחזיון לילה׃ |
9 The eye has not seen him, and does not add. And his place does not behold him again.
| עין שזפתו ולא תוסיף ולא עוד תשורנו מקומו׃ |
10 His sons oppress the poor, And his hands give back his wealth.
| בניו ירצו דלים וידיו תשבנה אונו׃ |
11 His bones have been full of his youth, and it lies down with him on the dust.
| עצמותיו מלאו עלומו ועמו על עפר תשכב׃ |
12 Though he sweetens evil in his mouth, hides it under his tongue,
| אם תמתיק בפיו רעה יכחידנה תחת לשונו׃ |
13 has pity on it, and does not forsake it, and keeps it back in the midst of his palate,
| יחמל עליה ולא יעזבנה וימנענה בתוך חכו׃ |
14 his food is turned in his bowels, the bitterness of cobras [is] in his heart.
| לחמו במעיו נהפך מרורת פתנים בקרבו׃ |
15 He has swallowed wealth, and vomits it. God drives it out from his belly.
| חיל בלע ויקאנו מבטנו יורשנו אל׃ |
16 He sucks [the] gall of cobras, the tongue of a viper slays him.
| ראש פתנים יינק תהרגהו לשון אפעה׃ |
17 He does not look on streams, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.
| אל ירא בפלגות נהרי נחלי דבש וחמאה׃ |
18 He is giving back [what] he labored for, and does not consume [it]; As a bulwark [is] his exchange, and he does not exult.
| משיב יגע ולא יבלע כחיל תמורתו ולא יעלס׃ |
19 For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, He has taken a house away violently, And he does not build it.
| כי רצץ עזב דלים בית גזל ולא יבנהו׃ |
20 For he has not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he does not deliver himself.
| כי לא ידע שלו בבטנו בחמודו לא ימלט׃ |
21 There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good does not stay.
| אין שריד לאכלו על כן לא יחיל טובו׃ |
22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he is constricted. Every perverse hand meets him.
| במלאות שפקו יצר לו כל יד עמל תבואנו׃ |
23 It comes to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sends forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Indeed, He rains on him in his eating.
| יהי למלא בטנו ישלח בו חרון אפו וימטר עלימו בלחומו׃ |
24 He flees from an iron weapon, A bow of bronze passes through him.
| יברח מנשק ברזל תחלפהו קשת נחושה׃ |
25 One has drawn, And it comes out from the body, And a glittering weapon proceeds from his gall. Terrors [are] on him.
| שלף ויצא מגוה וברק ממררתו יהלך עליו אמים׃ |
26 All darkness is hid for his treasures, A fire not blown consumes him, The remnant is broken in his tent.
| כל חשך טמון לצפוניו תאכלהו אש לא נפח ירע שריד באהלו׃ |
27 The heavens reveal his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.
| יגלו שמים עונו וארץ מתקוממה לו׃ |
28 The increase of his house is removed, Poured forth in a day of His anger.
| יגל יבול ביתו נגרות ביום אפו׃ |
29 This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.”
| זה חלק אדם רשע מאלהים ונחלת אמרו מאל׃ |
