Job 20
1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
| آنگاه صوفر نعماتی پاسخ داد: |
2 "Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste 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 puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
| توهین‌هایت را تحمل کرده‌ام اما الان مجبورم پاسخ تو را بدهم. |
4 Do you not know this from old time, since humankind was placed on 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, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
| اگرچه مرد بدکار سرافراز گردد و شوکتش سر به فلک کشد، |
7 yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who 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. Yes, he shall be chased away like 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 see him.
| دیگر هرگز نه دوستانش او را خواهند دید و نه خانواده‌اش. |
10 His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back 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 youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
| هنوز به پیری نرسیده، خواهد مرد و استخوانهایش در خاک خواهد پوسید. |
12 "Though wickedness is 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 cobra venom within him.
| اما آنچه که خورده است در معده‌اش ترش می‌شود، و در شکمش به زهرِ مار تبدیل می‌گردد. |
15 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will 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 cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
| آنچه خورده است مانند زهر مار تلخ شده، طعم مرگ خواهد داشت. |
17 He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
| او دیگر از نهرهای روغن زیتون، شیر و عسل لذت نخواهد برد. |
18 That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
| زحماتش برای او ثمری نخواهد داشت و ثروتش باعث خوشی او نخواهد شد. |
19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has 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, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
| از آنچه با حرص و طمع به چنگ آورده است هرگز ارضا نخواهد شد، |
21 There was nothing left that he did not devour, 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 fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.
| وقتی به اوج کامیابی برسد بدبختی دامنگیر او خواهد شد. |
23 When he is about to fill his belly, he will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
| هنگامی که او می‌خورد و شکم خود را پر می‌کند، خدا خشم خود را بر او نازل خواهد کرد. |
24 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow 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 draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on 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. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which 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. 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. They shall rush 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, the heritage appointed to him by God."
| این است سرنوشتی که خدای قادر مطلق برای بدکاران تعیین کرده است. |
