Job 20
1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
| ויען צפר הנעמתי ויאמר׃ |
2 “Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
| לכן שעפי ישיבוני ובעבור חושי בי׃ |
3 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
| מוסר כלמתי אשמע ורוח מבינתי יענני׃ |
4 Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,
| הזאת ידעת מני עד מני שים אדם עלי ארץ׃ |
5 that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
| כי רננת רשעים מקרוב ושמחת חנף עדי רגע׃ |
6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
| אם יעלה לשמים שיאו וראשו לעב יגיע׃ |
7 yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
| כגללו לנצח יאבד ראיו יאמרו איו׃ |
8 He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
| כחלום יעוף ולא ימצאוהו וידד כחזיון לילה׃ |
9 The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.
| עין שזפתו ולא תוסיף ולא עוד תשורנו מקומו׃ |
10 His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth.
| בניו ירצו דלים וידיו תשבנה אונו׃ |
11 His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.
| עצמותיו מלאו עלומו ועמו על עפר תשכב׃ |
12 “Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
| אם תמתיק בפיו רעה יכחידנה תחת לשונו׃ |
13 though he spare it, and will not let it go, 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 cobra venom within him.
| לחמו במעיו נהפך מרורת פתנים בקרבו׃ |
15 He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
| חיל בלע ויקאנו מבטנו יורשנו אל׃ |
16 He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
| ראש פתנים יינק תהרגהו לשון אפעה׃ |
17 He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
| אל ירא בפלגות נהרי נחלי דבש וחמאה׃ |
18 He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
| משיב יגע ולא יבלע כחיל תמורתו ולא יעלס׃ |
19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
| כי רצץ עזב דלים בית גזל ולא יבנהו׃ |
20 “Because he knew no quietness within him, he will not save anything of that in which he delights.
| כי לא ידע שלו בבטנו בחמודו לא ימלט׃ |
21 There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure.
| אין שריד לאכלו על כן לא יחיל טובו׃ |
22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.
| במלאות שפקו יצר לו כל יד עמל תבואנו׃ |
23 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
| יהי למלא בטנו ישלח בו חרון אפו וימטר עלימו בלחומו׃ |
24 He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.
| יברח מנשק ברזל תחלפהו קשת נחושה׃ |
25 He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.
| שלף ויצא מגוה וברק ממררתו יהלך עליו אמים׃ |
26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.
| כל חשך טמון לצפוניו תאכלהו אש לא נפח ירע שריד באהלו׃ |
27 The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him.
| יגלו שמים עונו וארץ מתקוממה לו׃ |
28 The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.
| יגל יבול ביתו נגרות ביום אפו׃ |
29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”
| זה חלק אדם רשע מאלהים ונחלת אמרו מאל׃ |
