Job:Chapter 20

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Job:Chapter 20

約伯傳	Job
¹納阿瑪人左法爾答覆說：	¹Zophar of Naamath spoke next:
²因我的思潮起伏，叫我答覆，為此我內心十分急躁。	²My troubled thoughts move me to reply for I have been feeling impatient.
³斥責辱罵我的話，我已聽到，我的理智催迫我答覆。	³I hear a rebuke which puts me to shame, and I am inspired to give an answer.
⁴你豈不知道，自古以來，自從世上有人以來，	⁴You know how it has been from of old, since man was placed on earth,
⁵惡人的歡欣決不久長，無神者的喜樂瞬息即逝？	⁵that the triumph of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but a moment.
⁶他的驕傲雖高頂蒼天，他的頭雖插入青雲，	⁶Though his pride reach to the heavens and his head touch the clouds,
⁷但他必像幻像，永歸無有；見過他的人必說：「他那裏去了？」	⁷he vanishes like a phantom; those who have seen him ask where he is.
⁸他又像夢境消散，無蹟可尋；又像夜夢，消失無蹤。	⁸Like a dream he takes flight, like a vision of the night.
⁹見過他的眼，再也見不到他；他的住所，再也不認識他。	⁹The eye that met him sees him no more; neither shall his dwelling shelter him again.
¹⁰他的兒子要賠償窮人的損害，他要親手把財物交還。	¹⁰His children must make amends to his victims; his own hands must pay back his riches.
¹¹他的骨骸雖富有魄力，但要同他一起埋於塵埃。	¹¹His youthful frame that was full of vigor shall at last lie with him in the dust.
¹²邪惡在他口中雖覺甘甜，藏在他的舌下，	¹²E vil was sweet in his mouth, and he hid it under his tongue,
¹³他雖愛惜不捨，久久含在口中；	¹³He liked it and did not let it go and still kept it within his mouth,
¹⁴但那食物在他腹中要起變化，在他五內要變成蛇的毒汁。	¹⁴yet his food turns sour and becomes venom in his stomach.
¹⁵他併吞的財富，必要吐出，天主必使之由他腹中嘔出。	¹⁵He vomits the riches he swallowed; God compels his belly to belch it out.
¹⁶他原吸入了蛇的毒汁，毒蛇的舌頭必將他殺死。	¹⁶Because he sucked the poison of a viper, he will be killed by the fangs of an adder.
¹⁷他不得觀賞油流如溪，也看不到那流蜜流奶的小河。	¹⁷He will no longer see the streams of oil, no rivers of honey and milk.
¹⁸他勞力之所得，應該退還，不得吞下；賺來的財富，不得享用。	¹⁸He gives back the fruit of his toil: he could not swallow it.
¹⁹因為他壓搾了窮人，使他們無依；強佔了人家的房屋，不得再建。	¹⁹For he has oppressed the poor and seized houses instead of building them.
²⁰因為他口腹之慾總不知足，他所喜愛之物，也救不了他。	²⁰For his greed had no limit, and no one could escape his appetite;
²¹沒有什麼能逃脫他的吞噬，他的幸福決不久長。	²¹he devoured them, one and all. This is why his prosperity will not endure.
²²他財產富足時，卻不免拮据，各種的困苦齊集他身。	²²In the midst of plenty, distress seizes him, the full force of misery falls upon him.
²³當他肚腹飽滿時，天主的怒火突然降到，箭如雨點射在他身上。	²³When his belly is filled God unloads his wrath upon him and pelts him with his arrows.
²⁴他逃避過鐵器，銅矢必將他射穿。	²⁴While he flees from an iron weapon, the bronze bow strikes him down.
²⁵一箭由他的脊背穿透，光亮的箭矢由他的膽囊穿出，死亡的恐怖已落在他身上。	²⁵A dart sticks in his back, in his liver an arrow. He is in the grip of a terrible fear;
²⁶層層黑暗留作他的寶藏，非人燃起的火要焚燒他，吞盡留在他帳幕的人。	²⁶total darkness has been stored for him, a fire which he did not kindle devours him and consumes whatever was left in his tent.
²⁷天要彰顯他的罪惡，地也起來攻擊他。	²⁷The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up against him.
²⁸洪水沖走他的住宅，在天主義怒之日要全被沖去。	²⁸A flood will sweep away his house, the waters of God's wrath.
²⁹這是惡人由天主所應得的一份，是天主為他所註定的產業。	²⁹Such is the fate of the wicked - their lot which comes from God.

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