Job 20
1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,
| ויען צפר הנעמתי ויאמר |
2 Doubtlesse my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.
| לכן שעפי ישיבוני ובעבור חושי בי |
3 I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.
| מוסר כלמתי אשמע ורוח מבינתי יענני |
4 Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,
| הזאת ידעת מני-עד מני שים אדם עלי-ארץ |
5 That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?
| כי רננת רשעים מקרוב ושמחת חנף עדי-רגע |
6 Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,
| אם-יעלה לשמים שיאו וראשו לעב יגיע |
7 Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?
| כגללו לנצח יאבד ראיו יאמרו איו |
8 He shall flee away as a dreame, and they shall not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,
| כחלום יעוף ולא ימצאהו וידד כחזיון לילה |
9 So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more.
| עין שזפתו ולא תוסיף ולא-עוד תשורנו מקומו |
10 His children shall flatter the poore, and his hands shall restore his substance.
| בניו ירצו דלים וידיו תשבנה אונו |
11 His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shall lie downe with him in the dust.
| עצמותיו מלאו עלומו ועמו על-עפר תשכב |
12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,
| אם-תמתיק בפיו רעה-- יכחידנה תחת לשנו |
13 And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,
| יחמל עליה ולא יעזבנה וימנענה בתוך חכו |
14 Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.
| לחמו במעיו נהפך מרורת פתנים בקרבו |
15 He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.
| חיל בלע ויקאנו מבטנו ירשנו אל |
16 He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.
| ראש-פתנים יינק תהרגהו לשון אפעה |
17 He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.
| אל-ירא בפלגות-- נהרי נחלי דבש וחמאה |
18 He shall restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, and he shall enioy it no more.
| משיב יגע ולא יבלע כחיל תמורתו ולא יעלס |
19 For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.
| כי-רצץ עזב דלים בית גזל ולא יבנהו |
20 Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.
| כי לא-ידע שלו בבטנו בחמודו לא ימלט |
21 There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shall hope for his goods.
| אין-שריד לאכלו על-כן לא-יחיל טובו |
22 When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him.
| במלאות שפקו יצר לו כל-יד עמל תבאנו |
23 He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate.
| יהי למלא בטנו--ישלח-בו חרון אפו וימטר עלימו בלחומו |
24 He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shall strike him through.
| יברח מנשק ברזל תחלפהו קשת נחושה |
25 The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.
| שלף ויצא מגוה וברק ממררתו יהלך עליו אמים |
26 All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed.
| כל-חשך טמון לצפוניו תאכלהו אש לא-נפח ירע שריד באהלו |
27 The heauen shall declare his wickednes, and the earth shall rise vp against him.
| יגלו שמים עונו וארץ מתקוממה לו |
28 The increase of his house shall go away: it shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
| יגל יבול ביתו נגרות ביום אפו |
29 This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage that he shall haue of God for his wordes.
| זה חלק-אדם רשע--מאלהים ונחלת אמרו מאל |
