ایوب 20
| آنگاه صوفر نعماتی پاسخ داد: | 1 |
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
| ای ایوب، بیش از این نمی‌توانم حرفهای تو را تحمل کنم و مجبورم جوابت را بدهم. | 2 |
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
| توهین‌هایت را تحمل کرده‌ام اما الان مجبورم پاسخ تو را بدهم. | 3 |
I have heard the rebuke that reproaches me, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
| مگر نمی‌دانی که از دوران قدیم که انسان بر زمین قرار داده شد خوشبختی شریران همیشه زودگذر بوده است؟ | 4 |
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
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That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
| اگرچه مرد بدکار سرافراز گردد و شوکتش سر به فلک کشد، | 6 |
Though his excellency shall 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 shall perish for ever like his own dung: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?
| او همچون یک رؤیا محو خواهد شد. | 8 |
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
| دیگر هرگز نه دوستانش او را خواهند دید و نه خانواده‌اش. | 9 |
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
| فرزندانش از فقیران گدایی خواهند کرد و با زحمت و مشقت قرضهای پدرشان را خواهند پرداخت. | 10 |
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
| هنوز به پیری نرسیده، خواهد مرد و استخوانهایش در خاک خواهد پوسید. | 11 |
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall 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 may be sweet in his mouth, though he may hide it under his tongue;
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Though he may spare it, and forsake it not; 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 body is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
| ثروتی را که بلعیده، قی خواهد کرد؛ خدا آن را از شکمش بیرون خواهد کشید. | 15 |
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
| آنچه خورده است مانند زهر مار تلخ شده، طعم مرگ خواهد داشت. | 16 |
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
| او دیگر از نهرهای روغن زیتون، شیر و عسل لذت نخواهد برد. | 17 |
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
| زحماتش برای او ثمری نخواهد داشت و ثروتش باعث خوشی او نخواهد شد. | 18 |
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice in it.
| زیرا به فقرا ظلم کرده، آنها را از خانه و زندگیشان محروم ساخته است. | 19 |
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he did not build;
| از آنچه با حرص و طمع به چنگ آورده است هرگز ارضا نخواهد شد، | 20 |
Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
| و از آنچه با دزدی اندوخته است لذت نخواهد برد و کامیابی او دوام نخواهد داشت. | 21 |
There shall none of his food be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
| وقتی به اوج کامیابی برسد بدبختی دامنگیر او خواهد شد. | 22 |
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon 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 shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon 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 shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall 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 |
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon 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 shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tent.
| آسمانها گناهان او را آشکار خواهند ساخت و زمین علیه او شهادت خواهد داد. | 27 |
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
| مال و ثروتش در اثر خشم خدا نابود خواهد گردید. | 28 |
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow 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, and the heritage appointed to him by God.
