Job 20
1 And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: —
| ויען צפר הנעמתי ויאמר |
2 Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.
| לכן שעפי ישיבוני ובעבור חושי בי |
3 The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:
| מוסר כלמתי אשמע ורוח מבינתי יענני |
4 This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?
| הזאת ידעת מני-עד מני שים אדם עלי-ארץ |
5 That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,
| כי רננת רשעים מקרוב ושמחת חנף עדי-רגע |
6 Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike —
| אם-יעלה לשמים שיאו וראשו לעב יגיע |
7 As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: 'Where [is] he?'
| כגללו לנצח יאבד ראיו יאמרו איו |
8 As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
| כחלום יעוף ולא ימצאהו וידד כחזיון לילה |
9 The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.
| עין שזפתו ולא תוסיף ולא-עוד תשורנו מקומו |
10 His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.
| בניו ירצו דלים וידיו תשבנה אונו |
11 His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.
| עצמותיו מלאו עלומו ועמו על-עפר תשכב |
12 Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,
| אם-תמתיק בפיו רעה-- יכחידנה תחת לשנו |
13 Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,
| יחמל עליה ולא יעזבנה וימנענה בתוך חכו |
14 His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps [is] in his heart.
| לחמו במעיו נהפך מרורת פתנים בקרבו |
15 Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.
| חיל בלע ויקאנו מבטנו ירשנו אל |
16 Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.
| ראש-פתנים יינק תהרגהו לשון אפעה |
17 He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.
| אל-ירא בפלגות-- נהרי נחלי דבש וחמאה |
18 He is giving back [what] he laboured for, And doth not consume [it]; As a bulwark [is] his exchange, and he exults not.
| משיב יגע ולא יבלע כחיל תמורתו ולא יעלס |
19 For he oppressed — he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.
| כי-רצץ עזב דלים בית גזל ולא יבנהו |
20 For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.
| כי לא-ידע שלו בבטנו בחמודו לא ימלט |
21 There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.
| אין-שריד לאכלו על-כן לא-יחיל טובו |
22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.
| במלאות שפקו יצר לו כל-יד עמל תבאנו |
23 It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.
| יהי למלא בטנו--ישלח-בו חרון אפו וימטר עלימו בלחומו |
24 He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.
| יברח מנשק ברזל תחלפהו קשת נחושה |
25 One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him [are] terrors.
| שלף ויצא מגוה וברק ממררתו יהלך עליו אמים |
26 All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.
| כל-חשך טמון לצפוניו תאכלהו אש לא-נפח ירע שריד באהלו |
27 Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.
| יגלו שמים עונו וארץ מתקוממה לו |
28 Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.
| יגל יבול ביתו נגרות ביום אפו |
29 This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.
| זה חלק-אדם רשע--מאלהים ונחלת אמרו מאל |
