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 replied,
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。
“I am very perturbed about what you have said, so I want to reply very quickly.
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。
By saying these things you have insulted me, but I know how (OR, because I understand very much) I can reply to you.
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 you not know that from long ago, ever since people were first put on the 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。
wicked people [like you] do not continue to rejoice for a long time, ungodly people are happy only for a (moment/very short time) [HYP]?
6 たといその高さが天に達し、その頭が雲におよんでも、
[Even] though their reputation/pride reaches up to the sky and their fame goes up as high as 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。
they will disappear forever, like their own dung, and those who knew them will ask, ‘(Where did they go/What happened to them)?’
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。
They will be forgotten like [SIM] a dream is, and they will exist no more. They will vanish, like visions [that people see] during 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。
Those who saw those people previously will never see them again; even their families [MTY] will not see them 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。
Their children will be forced to return the valuable things that those children stole from poor people [DOU].
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。
Previously their bodies were young and strong, but they will die and [their bodies will] be buried in the ground.
12 たとい悪は彼の口に甘く、これを舌の裏にかくし、
“Doing wicked things was like having sweet food in their mouths, and they wanted to continue to taste it.
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、
And they did not want to stop doing those things,
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。
[but some day] the evil things that they enjoyed doing will become like food [that they swallow] [and which becomes] as bitter as snake venom.
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。
Wicked people will not continue to keep the money they have accumulated, like people do not keep the food that they vomit. God takes their wealth from them.
16 彼は毒蛇の毒を吸い、まむしの舌は彼を殺すであろう。
What wicked people do is [like] [MET] swallowing snake venom; it will kill them like [MET] the bite of a poisonous snake kills people.
17 彼は蜜と凝乳の流れる川々を見ることができない。
They will not remain alive to see abundant blessings [IDM] [from God], milk and olive oil and honey, that are [so abundant they are] like [MET] a stream that flows by.
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。
They will be forced to give back the things that they stole from the poor; they will not be able to continue to enjoy those things. They will not remain happy because of what they got from their businesses,
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。
because they oppressed poor people and refused to help them, and they took other people’s houses [by cheating them].
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。
“They were always greedy and never satisfied. They just keep dreaming about owning more and more things.
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。
When they finished eating their food, there was never anything left over [because they had greedily eaten it all]; but now their prosperity will end.
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。
When they are extremely prosperous/wealthy, they will suddenly experience a lot of trouble. (Misery will strike them and crush them [PRS]/They will suffer very greatly).
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 the wicked people are filling their stomachs, God will show that he is very angry with them and punish them; the punishment [that he gives them] will be like [MET] rain falling on them.
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。
They will try to escape from [being killed by] iron weapons, but arrows with bronze points will pierce them.
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。
The arrows will [go completely through their bodies and] stick out of their backs; the shiny points of the arrows will have blood dripping from them, and those wicked people will be terrified.
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。
Their valuable possessions will all be destroyed; a fire that is not lit by humans, [but by God, ] will burn them up and also destroy the things that are left in their tents.
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 [angels in] heaven [MTY] will reveal the sins that those wicked people have committed, and [people on] earth will stand up and testify against them.
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。
When God punishes [MTY] [people], all the possessions in the wicked people’s houses will be carried away by a flood.
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」。
That is what will happen to wicked people [like you]; that is what God has decided will happen to them.”
