ایوب 20
| آنگاه صوفر نعماتی پاسخ داد: | 1 |
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered by saying:
| ای ایوب، بیش از این نمی‌توانم حرفهای تو را تحمل کنم و مجبورم جوابت را بدهم. | 2 |
In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas.
| توهین‌هایت را تحمل کرده‌ام اما الان مجبورم پاسخ تو را بدهم. | 3 |
The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.
| مگر نمی‌دانی که از دوران قدیم که انسان بر زمین قرار داده شد خوشبختی شریران همیشه زودگذر بوده است؟ | 4 |
This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:
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that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.
| اگرچه مرد بدکار سرافراز گردد و شوکتش سر به فلک کشد، | 6 |
If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches 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 |
in the end, he will be destroyed like a trash heap, and those who had seen him will say: “Where is he?”
| او همچون یک رؤیا محو خواهد شد. | 8 |
Like a dream that flies away, he will not be found; he will pass away like a nightmare.
| دیگر هرگز نه دوستانش او را خواهند دید و نه خانواده‌اش. | 9 |
The eyes that had seen him, will not see him; no longer will his own place admire him.
| فرزندانش از فقیران گدایی خواهند کرد و با زحمت و مشقت قرضهای پدرشان را خواهند پرداخت. | 10 |
His sons will be worn away by poverty, and his own hands will deliver his grief to him.
| هنوز به پیری نرسیده، خواهد مرد و استخوانهایش در خاک خواهد پوسید. | 11 |
His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.
| او از طعم شرارت لذت می‌برد و آن را در دهان خود نگه داشته، مزه‌مزه می‌کند. | 12 |
For, when evil will be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
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He will permit it, and not abandon it, and he will conceal it in his throat.
| اما آنچه که خورده است در معده‌اش ترش می‌شود، و در شکمش به زهرِ مار تبدیل می‌گردد. | 14 |
His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him.
| ثروتی را که بلعیده، قی خواهد کرد؛ خدا آن را از شکمش بیرون خواهد کشید. | 15 |
The riches that he devours, he will vomit up, and from his stomach God will draw them out.
| آنچه خورده است مانند زهر مار تلخ شده، طعم مرگ خواهد داشت. | 16 |
He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.
| او دیگر از نهرهای روغن زیتون، شیر و عسل لذت نخواهد برد. | 17 |
(May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.)
| زحماتش برای او ثمری نخواهد داشت و ثروتش باعث خوشی او نخواهد شد. | 18 |
He will be repaid for all he has done, yet he will not be consumed; according to the multitude of his schemes, so also will he suffer.
| زیرا به فقرا ظلم کرده، آنها را از خانه و زندگیشان محروم ساخته است. | 19 |
For, having broken in, he stripped the poor. He has quickly stolen away a house he did not build.
| از آنچه با حرص و طمع به چنگ آورده است هرگز ارضا نخواهد شد، | 20 |
And yet his stomach will not be satisfied, and when he has the things he desires, he will not be able to possess them.
| و از آنچه با دزدی اندوخته است لذت نخواهد برد و کامیابی او دوام نخواهد داشت. | 21 |
Nothing remained of his portion, and, because of this, nothing will continue of his kind.
| وقتی به اوج کامیابی برسد بدبختی دامنگیر او خواهد شد. | 22 |
When he will be satisfied, he will be constrained; he will seethe, and all anguish will fall upon him.
| هنگامی که او می‌خورد و شکم خود را پر می‌کند، خدا خشم خود را بر او نازل خواهد کرد. | 23 |
May his stomach be filled, so that God may send forth the fury of his wrath to him and may rain down his battle upon him.
| 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 weapons of iron, and he will fall in an arc of brass,
| 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 |
which had been drawn and had issued forth from its sheath, glittering in its bitterness: the horrible ones will go forth and approach over 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 has been hidden in his secrecy. A fire that has not been set will devour him; he will be thrown down and forsaken in his tabernacle.
| آسمانها گناهان او را آشکار خواهند ساخت و زمین علیه او شهادت خواهد داد. | 27 |
The heavens will reveal his sinfulness, and the earth will rise up against him.
| مال و ثروتش در اثر خشم خدا نابود خواهد گردید. | 28 |
The offspring of his house will be exposed; he will be pulled down in the day of God’s wrath.
| این است سرنوشتی که خدای قادر مطلق برای بدکاران تعیین کرده است. | 29 |
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his words from the Lord.
