Job 20
1 And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says:
Respondens autem Sophar Naamathites, dixit:
2 “Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.
[Idcirco cogitationes meæ variæ succedunt sibi, et mens in diversa rapitur.
3 I hear the discipline of my shame, And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer:
Doctrinam qua me arguis audiam, et spiritus intelligentiæ meæ respondebit mihi.
4 Have you known this from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?
Hoc scio a principio, ex quo positus est homo super terram,
5 That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,
quod laus impiorum brevis sit, et gaudium hypocritæ ad instar puncti.
6 Though his excellence goes up to the heavens, He strikes his head against a cloud—
Si ascenderit usque ad cælum superbia ejus, et caput ejus nubes tetigerit,
7 He perishes as his own dung forever, His beholders say, Where [is] he?
quasi sterquilinium in fine perdetur, et qui eum viderant, dicent: Ubi est?
8 He flees as a dream, and they do not find him, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
Velut somnium avolans non invenietur: transiet sicut visio nocturna.
9 The eye has not seen him, and does not add. And his place does not behold him again.
Oculus qui eum viderat non videbit, neque ultra intuebitur eum locus suus.
10 His sons oppress the poor, And his hands give back his wealth.
Filii ejus atterentur egestate, et manus illius reddent ei dolorem suum.
11 His bones have been full of his youth, and it lies down with him on the dust.
Ossa ejus implebuntur vitiis adolescentiæ ejus, et cum eo in pulvere dormient.
12 Though he sweetens evil in his mouth, hides it under his tongue,
Cum enim dulce fuerit in ore ejus malum, abscondet illud sub lingua sua.
13 has pity on it, and does not forsake it, and keeps it back in the midst of his palate,
Parcet illi, et non derelinquet illud, et celabit in gutture suo.
14 his food is turned in his bowels, the bitterness of cobras [is] in his heart.
Panis ejus in utero illius vertetur in fel aspidum intrinsecus.
15 He has swallowed wealth, and vomits it. God drives it out from his belly.
Divitias quas devoravit evomet, et de ventre illius extrahet eas Deus.
16 He sucks [the] gall of cobras, the tongue of a viper slays him.
Caput aspidum suget, et occidet eum lingua viperæ.
17 He does not look on streams, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.
(Non videat rivulos fluminis, torrentes mellis et butyri.)
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.
Luet quæ fecit omnia, nec tamen consumetur: juxta multitudinem adinventionum suarum, sic et sustinebit.
19 For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, He has taken a house away violently, And he does not build it.
Quoniam confringens nudavit pauperes: domum rapuit, et non ædificavit eam.
20 For he has not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he does not deliver himself.
Nec est satiatus venter ejus: et cum habuerit quæ concupierat, possidere non poterit.
21 There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good does not stay.
Non remansit de cibo ejus, et propterea nihil permanebit de bonis ejus.
22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he is constricted. Every perverse hand meets him.
Cum satiatus fuerit, arctabitur: æstuabit, et omnis dolor irruet super eum.
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.
Utinam impleatur venter ejus, ut emittat in eum iram furoris sui, et pluat super illum bellum suum.
24 He flees from an iron weapon, A bow of bronze passes through him.
Fugiet arma ferrea, et irruet in arcum æreum.
25 One has drawn, And it comes out from the body, And a glittering weapon proceeds from his gall. Terrors [are] on him.
Eductus, et egrediens de vagina sua, et fulgurans in amaritudine sua: vadent et venient super eum horribiles.
26 All darkness is hid for his treasures, A fire not blown consumes him, The remnant is broken in his tent.
Omnes tenebræ absconditæ sunt in occultis ejus; devorabit eum ignis qui non succenditur: affligetur relictus in tabernaculo suo.
27 The heavens reveal his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.
Revelabunt cæli iniquitatem ejus, et terra consurget adversus eum.
28 The increase of his house is removed, Poured forth in a day of His anger.
Apertum erit germen domus illius: detrahetur in die furoris Dei.
29 This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.”
Hæc est pars hominis impii a Deo, et hæreditas verborum ejus a Domino.]
