¹Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

¹Y RESPONDIO Sophar Naamathita, y dijo:

²Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

²Por cierto mis pensamientos me hacen responder, Y por tanto me apresuro.

³I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

³La reprensión de mi censura he oído, Y háceme responder el espíritu de mi inteligencia.

⁴Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

⁴¿No sabes esto que fué siempre, Desde el tiempo que fué puesto el hombre sobre la tierra,

⁵That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

⁵Que la alegría de los impíos es breve, Y el gozo del hipócrita por un momento?

⁶Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

⁶Si subiere su altivez hasta el cielo, Y su cabeza tocare en las nubes,

⁷Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

⁷Con su estiércol perecerá para siempre: Los que le hubieren visto, dirán: ¿Qué es de él?

⁸He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

⁸Como sueño volará, y no será hallado: Y disiparáse como visión nocturna.

⁹The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

⁹El ojo que le habrá visto, nunca más le verá; Ni su lugar le echará más de ver.

¹⁰His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

¹⁰Sus hijos pobres andarán rogando; Y sus manos tornarán lo que él robó.

¹¹His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

¹¹Sus huesos están llenos de sus mocedades, Y con él serán sepultados en el polvo.

¹²Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

¹²Si el mal se endulzó en su boca, Si lo ocultaba debajo de su lengua;

¹³Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

¹³Si le parecía bien, y no lo dejaba, Mas antes lo detenía entre su paladar;

¹⁴Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

¹⁴Su comida se mudará en sus entrañas, Hiel de áspides será dentro de él.

¹⁵He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

¹⁵Devoró riquezas, mas vomitarálas; De su vientre las sacará Dios.

¹⁶He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

¹⁶Veneno de áspides chupará; Matarálo lengua de víbora.

¹⁷He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

¹⁷No verá los arroyos, los ríos, Los torrentes de miel y de manteca.

¹⁸That 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.

¹⁸Restituirá el trabajo conforme á la hacienda que tomó; Y no tragará, ni gozará.

¹⁹Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

¹⁹Por cuanto quebrantó y desamparó á los pobres, Robó casas, y no las edificó;

²⁰Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

²⁰Por tanto, no sentirá él sosiego en su vientre, Ni salvará nada de lo que codiciaba.

²¹There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

²¹No quedó nada que no comiese: Por tanto su bien no será durable.

²²In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

²²Cuando fuere lleno su bastimento, tendrá angustia: Las manos todas de los malvados vendrán sobre él.

²³When 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.

²³Cuando se pusiere á henchir su vientre, Dios enviará sobre él el furor de su ira, Y harála llover sobre él y sobre su comida.

²⁴He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

²⁴Huirá de las armas de hierro, Y el arco de acero le atravesará.

²⁵It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

²⁵Desenvainará y sacará saeta de su aljaba, Y relumbrante pasará por su hiel: Sobre él vendrán terrores.

²⁶All 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.

²⁶Todas tinieblas están guardadas para sus secretos: Fuego no soplado lo devorará; Su sucesor será quebrantado en su tienda.

²⁷The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

²⁷Los cielos descubrirán su iniquidad, Y la tierra se levantará contra él.

²⁸The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

²⁸Los renuevos de su casa serán trasportados; Serán derramados en el día de su furor.

²⁹This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

²⁹Esta es la parte que Dios apareja al hombre impío, Y la heredad que Dios le señala por su palabra.