Job 20
1 Then Zophar replied,
| آنگاه صوفر نعماتی پاسخ داد: |
2 “I am very perturbed about what you have said, so I want to reply very quickly.
| ای ایوب، بیش از این نمی‌توانم حرفهای تو را تحمل کنم و مجبورم جوابت را بدهم. |
3 By saying these things you have insulted me, but I know how (OR, because I understand very much) I can reply to you.
| توهین‌هایت را تحمل کرده‌ام اما الان مجبورم پاسخ تو را بدهم. |
4 “Do you not know that from long ago, ever since people were first put on the earth,
| مگر نمی‌دانی که از دوران قدیم که انسان بر زمین قرار داده شد خوشبختی شریران همیشه زودگذر بوده است؟ |
5 wicked people [like you] do not continue to rejoice for a long time, ungodly people are happy only for a (moment/very short time) [HYP]?
6 [Even] though their reputation/pride reaches up to the sky and their fame goes up as high as the clouds,
| اگرچه مرد بدکار سرافراز گردد و شوکتش سر به فلک کشد، |
7 they will disappear forever, like their own dung, and those who knew them will ask, ‘(Where did they go/What happened to them)?’
| 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 They will be forgotten like [SIM] a dream is, and they will exist no more. They will vanish, like visions [that people see] during the night.
| او همچون یک رؤیا محو خواهد شد. |
9 Those who saw those people previously will never see them again; even their families [MTY] will not see them any more.
| دیگر هرگز نه دوستانش او را خواهند دید و نه خانواده‌اش. |
10 Their children will be forced to return the valuable things that those children stole from poor people [DOU].
| فرزندانش از فقیران گدایی خواهند کرد و با زحمت و مشقت قرضهای پدرشان را خواهند پرداخت. |
11 Previously their bodies were young and strong, but they will die and [their bodies will] be buried in the ground.
| هنوز به پیری نرسیده، خواهد مرد و استخوانهایش در خاک خواهد پوسید. |
12 “Doing wicked things was like having sweet food in their mouths, and they wanted to continue to taste it.
| او از طعم شرارت لذت می‌برد و آن را در دهان خود نگه داشته، مزه‌مزه می‌کند. |
13 And they did not want to stop doing those things,
14 [but some day] the evil things that they enjoyed doing will become like food [that they swallow] [and which becomes] as bitter as snake venom.
| اما آنچه که خورده است در معده‌اش ترش می‌شود، و در شکمش به زهرِ مار تبدیل می‌گردد. |
15 Wicked people will not continue to keep the money they have accumulated, like people do not keep the food that they vomit. God takes their wealth from them.
| ثروتی را که بلعیده، قی خواهد کرد؛ خدا آن را از شکمش بیرون خواهد کشید. |
16 What wicked people do is [like] [MET] swallowing snake venom; it will kill them like [MET] the bite of a poisonous snake kills people.
| آنچه خورده است مانند زهر مار تلخ شده، طعم مرگ خواهد داشت. |
17 They will not remain alive to see abundant blessings [IDM] [from God], milk and olive oil and honey, that are [so abundant they are] like [MET] a stream that flows by.
| او دیگر از نهرهای روغن زیتون، شیر و عسل لذت نخواهد برد. |
18 They will be forced to give back the things that they stole from the poor; they will not be able to continue to enjoy those things. They will not remain happy because of what they got from their businesses,
| زحماتش برای او ثمری نخواهد داشت و ثروتش باعث خوشی او نخواهد شد. |
19 because they oppressed poor people and refused to help them, and they took other people’s houses [by cheating them].
| زیرا به فقرا ظلم کرده، آنها را از خانه و زندگیشان محروم ساخته است. |
20 “They were always greedy and never satisfied. They just keep dreaming about owning more and more things.
| از آنچه با حرص و طمع به چنگ آورده است هرگز ارضا نخواهد شد، |
21 When they finished eating their food, there was never anything left over [because they had greedily eaten it all]; but now their prosperity will end.
| و از آنچه با دزدی اندوخته است لذت نخواهد برد و کامیابی او دوام نخواهد داشت. |
22 When they are extremely prosperous/wealthy, they will suddenly experience a lot of trouble. (Misery will strike them and crush them [PRS]/They will suffer very greatly).
| وقتی به اوج کامیابی برسد بدبختی دامنگیر او خواهد شد. |
23 When the wicked people are filling their stomachs, God will show that he is very angry with them and punish them; the punishment [that he gives them] will be like [MET] rain falling on them.
| هنگامی که او می‌خورد و شکم خود را پر می‌کند، خدا خشم خود را بر او نازل خواهد کرد. |
24 They will try to escape from [being killed by] iron weapons, but arrows with bronze points will pierce them.
| در حالی که می‌کوشد از شمشیر آهنین فرار کند، تیری از کمانی مفرغین رها شده، در بدن او فرو خواهد رفت. |
25 The arrows will [go completely through their bodies and] stick out of their backs; the shiny points of the arrows will have blood dripping from them, and those wicked people will be terrified.
| 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 Their valuable possessions will all be destroyed; a fire that is not lit by humans, [but by God, ] will burn them up and also destroy the things that are left in their tents.
| دارایی او نابود خواهد شد و آتشی ناگهانی به اموالش خواهد افتاد و آنچه را که برایش باقی مانده است خواهد بلعید. |
27 The [angels in] heaven [MTY] will reveal the sins that those wicked people have committed, and [people on] earth will stand up and testify against them.
| آسمانها گناهان او را آشکار خواهند ساخت و زمین علیه او شهادت خواهد داد. |
28 When God punishes [MTY] [people], all the possessions in the wicked people’s houses will be carried away by a flood.
| مال و ثروتش در اثر خشم خدا نابود خواهد گردید. |
29 That is what will happen to wicked people [like you]; that is what God has decided will happen to them.”
| این است سرنوشتی که خدای قادر مطلق برای بدکاران تعیین کرده است. |
