| 1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, | 1 فاجاب صوفر النعماتي وقال |
| 2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. | 2 من اجل ذلك هواجسي تجيبني ولهذا هيجاني فيّ. |
| 3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. | 3 تعيير توبيخي اسمع. وروح من فهمي يجيبني |
| 4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, | 4 أما علمت هذا من القديم منذ وضع الانسان على الارض |
| 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? | 5 ان هتاف الاشرار من قريب وفرح الفاجر الى لحظة. |
| 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; | 6 ولو بلغ السموات طوله ومسّ راسه السحاب. |
| 7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? | 7 كجلّته الى الابد يبيد. الذين رأوه يقولون اين هو. |
| 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. | 8 كالحلم يطير فلا يوجد ويطرد كطيف الليل. |
| 9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. | 9 عين ابصرته لا تعود تراه ومكانه لن يراه بعد. |
| 10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. | 10 بنوه يترضون الفقراء ويداه تردان ثروته. |
| 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. | 11 عظامه ملآنة شبيبة ومعه في التراب تضطجع. |
| 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; | 12 ان حلا في فمه الشر واخفاه تحت لسانه |
| 13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: | 13 اشفق عليه ولم يتركه بل حبسه وسط حنكه |
| 14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. | 14 فخبزه في امعائه يتحول. مرارة اصلال في بطنه. |
| 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. | 15 قد بلع ثروة فيتقيأها. الله يطردها من بطنه. |
| 16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. | 16 سمّ الاصلال يرضع. يقتله لسان الافعى. |
| 17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. | 17 لا يرى الجداول انهار سواقي عسل ولبن. |
| 18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein. | 18 يرد تعبه ولا يبلعه. كمال تحت رجع. ولا يفرح. |
| 19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; | 19 لانه رضض المساكين وتركهم واغتصب بيتا ولم يبنه |
| 20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. | 20 لانه لم يعرف في بطنه قناعة لا ينجو بمشتهاه. |
| 21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. | 21 ليست من اكله بقية لاجل ذلك لا يدوم خيره. |
| 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. | 22 مع ملء رغده يتضايق. تأتي عليه يد كل شقي. |
| 23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. | 23 يكون عندما يملأ بطنه ان الله يرسل عليه حمو غضبه ويمطره عليه عند طعامه. |
| 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. | 24 يفر من سلاح حديد. تخرقه قوس نحاس. |
| 25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. | 25 جذبه فخرج من بطنه والبارق من مرارته مرق. عليه رعوب. |
| 26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. | 26 كل ظلمة مختبأة لذخائره. تأكله نار لم تنفخ. ترعى البقية في خيمته. |
| 27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. | 27 السموات تعلن اثمه والارض تنهض عليه. |
| 28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. | 28 تزول غلة بيته. تهراق في يوم غضبه. |
| 29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. | 29 هذا نصيب الانسان الشرير من عند الله وميراث أمره من القدير |