Job 20

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