Job 20
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Modern Hebrew Bible
1Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:
1ויען צפר הנעמתי ויאמר׃
2Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.
2לכן שעפי ישיבוני ובעבור חושי בי׃
3The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.
3מוסר כלמתי אשמע ורוח מבינתי יענני׃
4This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,
4הזאת ידעת מני עד מני שים אדם עלי ארץ׃
5That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
5כי רננת רשעים מקרוב ושמחת חנף עדי רגע׃
6If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:
6אם יעלה לשמים שיאו וראשו לעב יגיע׃
7In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?
7כגללו לנצח יאבד ראיו יאמרו איו׃
8As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:
8כחלום יעוף ולא ימצאוהו וידד כחזיון לילה׃
9The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.
9עין שזפתו ולא תוסיף ולא עוד תשורנו מקומו׃
10His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render him his sorrow.
10בניו ירצו דלים וידיו תשבנה אונו׃
11His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.
11עצמותיו מלאו עלומו ועמו על עפר תשכב׃
12For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
12אם תמתיק בפיו רעה יכחידנה תחת לשונו׃
13He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.
13יחמל עליה ולא יעזבנה וימנענה בתוך חכו׃
14His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him.
14לחמו במעיו נהפך מרורת פתנים בקרבו׃
15The riches which he hath swallowed; he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.
15חיל בלע ויקאנו מבטנו יורשנו אל׃
16He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper’s tongue shall kill him.
16ראש פתנים יינק תהרגהו לשון אפעה׃
17(Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.)
17אל ירא בפלגות נהרי נחלי דבש וחמאה׃
18He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.
18משיב יגע ולא יבלע כחיל תמורתו ולא יעלס׃
19Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.
19כי רצץ עזב דלים בית גזל ולא יבנהו׃
20And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them.
20כי לא ידע שלו בבטנו בחמודו לא ימלט׃
21There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:
21אין שריד לאכלו על כן לא יחיל טובו׃
22When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.
22במלאות שפקו יצר לו כל יד עמל תבואנו׃
23May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.
23יהי למלא בטנו ישלח בו חרון אפו וימטר עלימו בלחומו׃
24He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.
24יברח מנשק ברזל תחלפהו קשת נחושה׃
25The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon him.
25שלף ויצא מגוה וברק ממררתו יהלך עליו אמים׃
26All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle.
26כל חשך טמון לצפוניו תאכלהו אש לא נפח ירע שריד באהלו׃
27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
27יגלו שמים עונו וארץ מתקוממה לו׃
28The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God’s wrath.
28יגל יבול ביתו נגרות ביום אפו׃
29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.
29זה חלק אדם רשע מאלהים ונחלת אמרו מאל׃
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