ایوب 20
| آنگاه صوفر نعماتی پاسخ داد: | 1 |
Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,
| ای ایوب، بیش از این نمی‌توانم حرفهای تو را تحمل کنم و مجبورم جوابت را بدهم. | 2 |
For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.
| توهین‌هایت را تحمل کرده‌ام اما الان مجبورم پاسخ تو را بدهم. | 3 |
I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.
| مگر نمی‌دانی که از دوران قدیم که انسان بر زمین قرار داده شد خوشبختی شریران همیشه زودگذر بوده است؟ | 4 |
Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,
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That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?
| اگرچه مرد بدکار سرافراز گردد و شوکتش سر به فلک کشد، | 6 |
Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up 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 |
Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
| او همچون یک رؤیا محو خواهد شد. | 8 |
He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.
| دیگر هرگز نه دوستانش او را خواهند دید و نه خانواده‌اش. | 9 |
The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.
| فرزندانش از فقیران گدایی خواهند کرد و با زحمت و مشقت قرضهای پدرشان را خواهند پرداخت. | 10 |
His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.
| هنوز به پیری نرسیده، خواهد مرد و استخوانهایش در خاک خواهد پوسید. | 11 |
His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.
| او از طعم شرارت لذت می‌برد و آن را در دهان خود نگه داشته، مزه‌مزه می‌کند. | 12 |
Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;
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Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;
| اما آنچه که خورده است در معده‌اش ترش می‌شود، و در شکمش به زهرِ مار تبدیل می‌گردد. | 14 |
His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
| ثروتی را که بلعیده، قی خواهد کرد؛ خدا آن را از شکمش بیرون خواهد کشید. | 15 |
He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
| آنچه خورده است مانند زهر مار تلخ شده، طعم مرگ خواهد داشت. | 16 |
He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
| او دیگر از نهرهای روغن زیتون، شیر و عسل لذت نخواهد برد. | 17 |
Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.
| زحماتش برای او ثمری نخواهد داشت و ثروتش باعث خوشی او نخواهد شد. | 18 |
He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
| زیرا به فقرا ظلم کرده، آنها را از خانه و زندگیشان محروم ساخته است. | 19 |
Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
| از آنچه با حرص و طمع به چنگ آورده است هرگز ارضا نخواهد شد، | 20 |
There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.
| و از آنچه با دزدی اندوخته است لذت نخواهد برد و کامیابی او دوام نخواهد داشت. | 21 |
He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.
| وقتی به اوج کامیابی برسد بدبختی دامنگیر او خواهد شد. | 22 |
Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.
| هنگامی که او می‌خورد و شکم خود را پر می‌کند، خدا خشم خود را بر او نازل خواهد کرد. | 23 |
God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
| در حالی که می‌کوشد از شمشیر آهنین فرار کند، تیری از کمانی مفرغین رها شده، در بدن او فرو خواهد رفت. | 24 |
He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;
| 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 is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.
| دارایی او نابود خواهد شد و آتشی ناگهانی به اموالش خواهد افتاد و آنچه را که برایش باقی مانده است خواهد بلعید. | 26 |
All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.
| آسمانها گناهان او را آشکار خواهند ساخت و زمین علیه او شهادت خواهد داد. | 27 |
The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.
| مال و ثروتش در اثر خشم خدا نابود خواهد گردید. | 28 |
The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.
| این است سرنوشتی که خدای قادر مطلق برای بدکاران تعیین کرده است. | 29 |
This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.
