ایوب 20
| آنگاه صوفر نعماتی پاسخ داد: | 1 |
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
| ای ایوب، بیش از این نمی‌توانم حرفهای تو را تحمل کنم و مجبورم جوابت را بدهم. | 2 |
“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
| توهین‌هایت را تحمل کرده‌ام اما الان مجبورم پاسخ تو را بدهم. | 3 |
I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
| مگر نمی‌دانی که از دوران قدیم که انسان بر زمین قرار داده شد خوشبختی شریران همیشه زودگذر بوده است؟ | 4 |
Do not you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,
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that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
| اگرچه مرد بدکار سرافراز گردد و شوکتش سر به فلک کشد، | 6 |
Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
| 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؟ | 7 |
yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
| او همچون یک رؤیا محو خواهد شد. | 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.
| دیگر هرگز نه دوستانش او را خواهند دید و نه خانواده‌اش. | 9 |
The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.
| فرزندانش از فقیران گدایی خواهند کرد و با زحمت و مشقت قرضهای پدرشان را خواهند پرداخت. | 10 |
His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth.
| هنوز به پیری نرسیده، خواهد مرد و استخوانهایش در خاک خواهد پوسید. | 11 |
His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.
| او از طعم شرارت لذت می‌برد و آن را در دهان خود نگه داشته، مزه‌مزه می‌کند. | 12 |
“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
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though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth,
| اما آنچه که خورده است در معده‌اش ترش می‌شود، و در شکمش به زهرِ مار تبدیل می‌گردد. | 14 |
yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
| ثروتی را که بلعیده، قی خواهد کرد؛ خدا آن را از شکمش بیرون خواهد کشید. | 15 |
He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
| آنچه خورده است مانند زهر مار تلخ شده، طعم مرگ خواهد داشت. | 16 |
He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
| او دیگر از نهرهای روغن زیتون، شیر و عسل لذت نخواهد برد. | 17 |
He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
| زحماتش برای او ثمری نخواهد داشت و ثروتش باعث خوشی او نخواهد شد. | 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.
| زیرا به فقرا ظلم کرده، آنها را از خانه و زندگیشان محروم ساخته است. | 19 |
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
| از آنچه با حرص و طمع به چنگ آورده است هرگز ارضا نخواهد شد، | 20 |
“Because he knew no quietness within him, he will not save anything of that in which he delights.
| و از آنچه با دزدی اندوخته است لذت نخواهد برد و کامیابی او دوام نخواهد داشت. | 21 |
There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure.
| وقتی به اوج کامیابی برسد بدبختی دامنگیر او خواهد شد. | 22 |
In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.
| هنگامی که او می‌خورد و شکم خود را پر می‌کند، خدا خشم خود را بر او نازل خواهد کرد. | 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.
| در حالی که می‌کوشد از شمشیر آهنین فرار کند، تیری از کمانی مفرغین رها شده، در بدن او فرو خواهد رفت. | 24 |
He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.
| هنگامی که تیر را از بدنش بیرون می‌کشد نوک براق آن جگرش را پاره خواهد کرد و وحشت مرگ بر او چیره خواهد شد. | 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.
| دارایی او نابود خواهد شد و آتشی ناگهانی به اموالش خواهد افتاد و آنچه را که برایش باقی مانده است خواهد بلعید. | 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.
| آسمانها گناهان او را آشکار خواهند ساخت و زمین علیه او شهادت خواهد داد. | 27 |
The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him.
| مال و ثروتش در اثر خشم خدا نابود خواهد گردید. | 28 |
The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.
| این است سرنوشتی که خدای قادر مطلق برای بدکاران تعیین کرده است. | 29 |
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”
