Job 20

EL LIBRO DEL PUEBLO DE DIOS	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Sofar de Naamá respondió, diciendo:	1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered by saying:
2 Mis pensamientos me obligan a replicar, porque no puedo dominar mi excitación.	2 In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas.
3 Tengo que oír reproches injuriosos, pero mi inteligencia me inspira una respuesta.	3 The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.
4 ¿No sabes acaso que desde siempre, desde que el hombre fue puesto sobre la tierra,	4 This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:
5 el júbilo de los malvados acaba pronto y la alegría del impío dura sólo un instante?	5 that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.
6 Aunque su altura se eleve hasta el cielo y llegue a tocar las nubes con la cabeza,	6 If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
7 él perece para siempre, como sus excrementos, y sus conocidos preguntan: «¿Dónde está?».	7 in the end, he will be destroyed like a trash heap, and those who had seen him will say: “Where is he?”
8 Huye como un sueño, y nadie lo encuentra, desechado como una visión nocturna,	8 Like a dream that flies away, he will not be found; he will pass away like a nightmare.
9 El ojo que lo miraba no lo ve más, el lugar que ocupaba lo pierde de vista.	9 The eyes that had seen him, will not see him; no longer will his own place admire him.
10 Sus hijos indemnizan a los que él empobreció y sus propias manos restituyen las riquezas	10 His sons will be worn away by poverty, and his own hands will deliver his grief to him.
11 El vigor juvenil que llenaba sus huesos yace con él en el polvo.	11 His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.
12 El mal era dulce a su boca y él lo disimulaba bajo su lengua;	12 For, when evil will be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
13 lo saboreaba y no lo soltaba, lo retenía en medio de su paladar;	13 He will permit it, and not abandon it, and he will conceal it in his throat.
14 pero su comida se corrompe en las entrañas, es un veneno de víboras dentro de él.	14 His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him.
15 Tiene que vomitar las riquezas que tragó, Dios se las arranca de su vientre.	15 The riches that he devours, he will vomit up, and from his stomach God will draw them out.
16 ¡El mamaba veneno de serpientes y lo mata la lengua de la víbora!	16 He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.
17 Ya no ve más los arroyos de aceite ni los torrentes de miel y leche cuajada.	17 (May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.)
18 Devuelve las ganancias sin tragarlas, y no disfruta de lo que lucró con sus negocios,	18 He will be repaid for all he has done, yet he will not be consumed; according to the multitude of his schemes, so also will he suffer.
19 porque oprimió y dejó sin amparo a los pobres, y usurpó casas que no había edificado.	19 For, having broken in, he stripped the poor. He has quickly stolen away a house he did not build.
20 Su voracidad no conocía descanso y nada escapaba a sus deseos;	20 And yet his stomach will not be satisfied, and when he has the things he desires, he will not be able to possess them.
21 nadie se libraba de su avidez, por eso no dura su prosperidad.	21 Nothing remained of his portion, and, because of this, nothing will continue of his kind.
22 En el colmo de la abundancia, lo asalta la angustia, le sobrevienen toda clase de desgracias.	22 When he will be satisfied, he will be constrained; he will seethe, and all anguish will fall upon him.
23 Mientras él llena su vientre, Dios descarga el ardor de su ira y hace llover el fuego de su enojo sobre él.	23 May his stomach be filled, so that God may send forth the fury of his wrath to him and may rain down his battle upon him.
24 Si escapa del arma de hierro, lo traspasa el arco de bronce:	24 He will flee from weapons of iron, and he will fall in an arc of brass,
25 la flecha le sale por la espalda, y la punta fulgurante por el hígado. Lo invaden los terrores,	25 which had been drawn and had issued forth from its sheath, glittering in its bitterness: the horrible ones will go forth and approach over him.
26 todas las tinieblas están reservadas para él, lo consume un fuego que nadie atiza y que devora lo que aún queda de su carpa.	26 All darkness has been hidden in his secrecy. A fire that has not been set will devour him; he will be thrown down and forsaken in his tabernacle.
27 Los cielos revelan su iniquidad y la tierra se levanta contra él.	27 The heavens will reveal his sinfulness, and the earth will rise up against him.
28 Un diluvio se lleva su casa, una correntada, en el día de la ira.	28 The offspring of his house will be exposed; he will be pulled down in the day of God’s wrath.
29 Esta es la porción que Dios asigna al malvado, la herencia que le tiene destinada.	29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his words from the Lord.