Job 20
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Modern Hebrew Bible
1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:
1ויען צפר הנעמתי ויאמר׃
2Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of mine agitation that is in me.
2לכן שעפי ישיבוני ובעבור חושי בי׃
3I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame, but out of my understanding my spirit answereth me.
3מוסר כלמתי אשמע ורוח מבינתי יענני׃
4Knowest thou not this of old time, since man was placed upon earth,
4הזאת ידעת מני עד מני שים אדם עלי ארץ׃
5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
5כי רננת רשעים מקרוב ושמחת חנף עדי רגע׃
6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
6אם יעלה לשמים שיאו וראשו לעב יגיע׃
7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; they that have seen him shall say: 'Where is he?'
7כגללו לנצח יאבד ראיו יאמרו איו׃
8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
8כחלום יעוף ולא ימצאוהו וידד כחזיון לילה׃
9The eye which saw 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 appease the poor, and his hands shall restore his wealth.
10בניו ירצו דלים וידיו תשבנה אונו׃
11His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
11עצמותיו מלאו עלומו ועמו על עפר תשכב׃
12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
12אם תמתיק בפיו רעה יכחידנה תחת לשונו׃
13Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
13יחמל עליה ולא יעזבנה וימנענה בתוך חכו׃
14Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
14לחמו במעיו נהפך מרורת פתנים בקרבו׃
15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly.
15חיל בלע ויקאנו מבטנו יורשנו אל׃
16He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.
16ראש פתנים יינק תהרגהו לשון אפעה׃
17He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and curd.
17אל ירא בפלגות נהרי נחלי דבש וחמאה׃
18That which he laboured for shall he give back, and shall not swallow it down; according to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.
18משיב יגע ולא יבלע כחיל תמורתו ולא יעלס׃
19For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
19כי רצץ עזב דלים בית גזל ולא יבנהו׃
20Because he knew no quietness within him, in his greed he suffered nought to escape,
20כי לא ידע שלו בבטנו בחמודו לא ימלט׃
21There was nothing left that he devoured not — therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
21אין שריד לאכלו על כן לא יחיל טובו׃
22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; the hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.
22במלאות שפקו יצר לו כל יד עמל תבואנו׃
23It shall be for the filling of his belly; He shall cast the fierceness of His wrath upon him, and shall cause it to rain upon him into his flesh.
23יהי למלא בטנו ישלח בו חרון אפו וימטר עלימו בלחומו׃
24If he flee from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.
24יברח מנשק ברזל תחלפהו קשת נחושה׃
25He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall; terrors are upon him.
25שלף ויצא מגוה וברק ממררתו יהלך עליו אמים׃
26All darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not blown by man shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tent.
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 increase of his house shall depart, his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
28יגל יבול ביתו נגרות ביום אפו׃
29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
29זה חלק אדם רשע מאלהים ונחלת אמרו מאל׃
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