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 excellence shall mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds;
| אם יעלה לשמים שיאו וראשו לעב יגיע׃ |
7 [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they who have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?
| כגללו לנצח יאבד ראיו יאמרו איו׃ |
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and will not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
| כחלום יעוף ולא ימצאוהו 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 may be sweet in his mouth, [though] he may hide it under his tongue;
| אם תמתיק בפיו רעה יכחידנה תחת לשונו׃ |
13 [Though] he may spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
| יחמל עליה ולא יעזבנה וימנענה בתוך חכו׃ |
14 [Yet] his food 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 יורשנו 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 river, the floods, the brooks of honey and buttermilk.
| אל ירא בפלגות נהרי נחלי דבש וחמאה׃ |
18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it]: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [in it].
| משיב יגע ולא יבלע כחיל תמורתו ולא יעלס׃ |
19 Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.
| 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 food be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
| אין שריד לאכלו על כן לא יחיל טובו׃ |
22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
| במלאות שפקו יצר לו כל יד עמל תבואנו׃ |
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; yes, 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 to him by God.
| זה חלק אדם רשע מאלהים ונחלת אמרו מאל׃ |
