ایوب 20
| آنگاه صوفر نعماتی پاسخ داد: | 1 |
Then answered Zophar the Na'amathite, and said,
| ای ایوب، بیش از این نمی‌توانم حرفهای تو را تحمل کنم و مجبورم جوابت را بدهم. | 2 |
Even therefore do my inmost thoughts give me an answer, and for this reason do I feel a strong excitement within me.
| توهین‌هایت را تحمل کرده‌ام اما الان مجبورم پاسخ تو را بدهم. | 3 |
Reproof which casteth shame on me must I hear; yet out of my understanding will the spirit give me an answer.
| مگر نمی‌دانی که از دوران قدیم که انسان بر زمین قرار داده شد خوشبختی شریران همیشه زودگذر بوده است؟ | 4 |
Dost thou know this? from the very beginning of things, from the very time when man was placed upon earth it was,
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That the triumphal shouting of the wicked is ever of but a recent date, and the joy of the hypocrite endureth only for a moment.
| اگرچه مرد بدکار سرافراز گردد و شوکتش سر به فلک کشد، | 6 |
Though his exaltation should mount up to the heavens, and his head should reach unto 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 when he but turneth round will he vanish for ever; those who have seen him will say, Where is he?
| او همچون یک رؤیا محو خواهد شد. | 8 |
Like a dream will he fly away, and men will find him no more; yea, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
| دیگر هرگز نه دوستانش او را خواهند دید و نه خانواده‌اش. | 9 |
If an eye have surveyed him, it will not do so again, and it will not behold him any more in his place.
| فرزندانش از فقیران گدایی خواهند کرد و با زحمت و مشقت قرضهای پدرشان را خواهند پرداخت. | 10 |
His children will suffer oppression from the indigent, and his hands will have to restore his [ill-gotten] wealth.
| هنوز به پیری نرسیده، خواهد مرد و استخوانهایش در خاک خواهد پوسید. | 11 |
[Now] his bones are full of his youthful vigor; but it will [suddenly] lie down with him in the dust.
| او از طعم شرارت لذت می‌برد و آن را در دهان خود نگه داشته، مزه‌مزه می‌کند. | 12 |
If the evil be sweet in his mouth, he will conceal it under his tongue;
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He will cherish it, and not forsake it; and hold it back within his palate;
| اما آنچه که خورده است در معده‌اش ترش می‌شود، و در شکمش به زهرِ مار تبدیل می‌گردد. | 14 |
His food is thus changed within his bowels, and becometh the venom of asps within him.
| ثروتی را که بلعیده، قی خواهد کرد؛ خدا آن را از شکمش بیرون خواهد کشید. | 15 |
The wealth which he hath swallowed, will he have to vomit up again; God will drive it out of his belly.
| آنچه خورده است مانند زهر مار تلخ شده، طعم مرگ خواهد داشت. | 16 |
The poison of asps will he have to suck; the viper's tongue will slay him.
| او دیگر از نهرهای روغن زیتون، شیر و عسل لذت نخواهد برد. | 17 |
He shall not look with pleasure on streams, on flowing brooks of honey and cream.
| زحماتش برای او ثمری نخواهد داشت و ثروتش باعث خوشی او نخواهد شد. | 18 |
He restoreth what he hath labored for, and will not swallow it down; however much he may have obtained by toil, he will not have any joy of it.
| زیرا به فقرا ظلم کرده، آنها را از خانه و زندگیشان محروم ساخته است. | 19 |
Because he oppressed and forsook the indigent; because he took violently away a house, shall he not rebuild it;
| از آنچه با حرص و طمع به چنگ آورده است هرگز ارضا نخواهد شد، | 20 |
Because he knew not quietness in his bosom, shall he not escape through what is the most precious to him.
| و از آنچه با دزدی اندوخته است لذت نخواهد برد و کامیابی او دوام نخواهد داشت. | 21 |
Nothing was spared from his craving to eat: therefore shall his wealth not prosper.
| وقتی به اوج کامیابی برسد بدبختی دامنگیر او خواهد شد. | 22 |
In the fulness of his abundance will distress assail him: every hand of [those he] troubled will come against him.
| هنگامی که او می‌خورد و شکم خود را پر می‌کند، خدا خشم خود را بر او نازل خواهد کرد. | 23 |
In order to fill his belly, [God] will send out against him the fury of his wrath, and will rain it upon him for his eating.
| در حالی که می‌کوشد از شمشیر آهنین فرار کند، تیری از کمانی مفرغین رها شده، در بدن او فرو خواهد رفت. | 24 |
If he flee from the iron weapon, the brazen bow 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 draweth it, and it cometh out of the body; yea, out of his gall the glittering [arrow] cometh forth: over him come the terrors [of death].
| دارایی او نابود خواهد شد و آتشی ناگهانی به اموالش خواهد افتاد و آنچه را که برایش باقی مانده است خواهد بلعید. | 26 |
Entire darkness is laid by for his treasures: a fire not urged by blowing will consume him; it will destroy any one that is left in his tent.
| آسمانها گناهان او را آشکار خواهند ساخت و زمین علیه او شهادت خواهد داد. | 27 |
The heavens will lay open his iniquity; and the earth will raise herself up against him.
| مال و ثروتش در اثر خشم خدا نابود خواهد گردید. | 28 |
The product of his house will be banished, flowing away on 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, and his decreed heritage from God.
