ヨブ 記 20
1 そこでナアマびとゾパルは答えて言った、
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
2 「これによって、わたしは答えようとの思いを起し、これがために心中しきりに騒ぎ立つ。
“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
3 わたしはわたしをはずかしめる非難を聞く、しかし、わたしの悟りの霊がわたしに答えさせる。
I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
4 あなたはこの事を知らないのか、昔から地の上に人の置かれてよりこのかた、
Do not you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,
5 悪しき人の勝ち誇はしばらくであって、神を信じない者の楽しみはただつかのまであることを。
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
6 たといその高さが天に達し、その頭が雲におよんでも、
Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
7 彼はおのれの糞のように、とこしえに滅び、彼を見た者は言うであろう、『彼はどこにおるか』と。
yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
8 彼は夢のように飛び去って、再び見ることはない。彼は夜の幻のように追い払われるであろう。
He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
9 彼を見た目はかさねて彼を見ることがなく、彼のいた所も再び彼を見ることがなかろう。
The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.
10 その子らは貧しい者に恵みを求め、その手は彼の貨財を償うであろう。
His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth.
11 その骨には若い力が満ちている、しかしそれは彼と共にちりに伏すであろう。
His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.
12 たとい悪は彼の口に甘く、これを舌の裏にかくし、
“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
13 これを惜しんで捨てることなく、口の中に含んでいても、
though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth,
14 その食物は彼の腹の中で変り、彼の内で毒蛇の毒となる。
yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
15 彼は貨財をのんでも、またそれを吐き出す、神がそれを彼の腹から押し出されるからだ。
He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
16 彼は毒蛇の毒を吸い、まむしの舌は彼を殺すであろう。
He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
17 彼は蜜と凝乳の流れる川々を見ることができない。
He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
18 彼はほねおって獲たものを返して、それを食うことができない。その商いによって得た利益をもって楽しむことができない。
He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
19 彼が貧しい者をしえたげ、これを捨てたからだ。彼は家を奪い取っても、それを建てることができない。
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
20 彼の欲張りは足ることを知らぬゆえ、その楽しむ何物をも救うことができないであろう。
“Because he knew no quietness within him, he will not save anything of that in which he delights.
21 彼が残して食べなかった物とては一つもない。それゆえ、その繁栄はながく続かないであろう。
There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure.
22 その力の満ちている時、彼は窮境に陥り、悩みの手がことごとく彼の上に臨むであろう。
In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.
23 彼がその腹を満たそうとすれば、神はその激しい怒りを送って、それを彼の上に降り注ぎ、彼の食物とされる。
When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
24 彼は鉄の武器を免れても、青銅の矢は彼を射通すであろう。
He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.
25 彼がこれをその身から引き抜けば、きらめく矢じりがその肝から出てきて、恐れが彼の上に臨む。
He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.
26 もろもろの暗黒が彼の宝物のためにたくわえられ、人が吹き起したものでない火が彼を焼きつくし、その天幕に残っている者を滅ぼすであろう。
All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.
27 天は彼の罪をあらわし、地は起って彼を攻めるであろう。
The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him.
28 その家の財産は奪い去られ、神の怒りの日に消えうせるであろう。
The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.
29 これが悪しき人の神から受ける分、神によって定められた嗣業である」。
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”
