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¹Mineli Sofar yanıtlayarak şöyle dedi:

²"Senin bu sözlerle karşı çıkacağını hiç sanmıyordum; siz de benden daha fazla bir şey anlamıyorsunuz.

³Beni utandıracak terbiyeyi dinleyeceğim, ama anlayışımdan çıkan ruh bana yanıt veriyor.

⁴İnsanın yeryüzüne konulduğu zamandan beri, zamanın başlangıcından beri bunu bilmez misin:

⁵Tanrısızların sevinci beklenmedik bir düşüştür, yasasızların coşkusu ise yok oluştur.

⁶Sunuları göklere yükselse, kurbanı bulutlara dokunsa bile,

⁷Tam sağlamca kurulduğunu sandığı an, o zaman tamamen yok olup gidecektir; onu tanıyanlar, 'Nerede o?' diyecekler.

⁸Uçup giden bir rüya gibi asla bulunamayacak, bir gece görümü gibi kaçıp gidecektir.

⁹Göz onu sadece yanından geçip görecek ve bir daha görmeyecek, yeri de onu artık fark etmeyecektir.

¹⁰Çocuklarını kendinden daha zayıf olanlar mahvetsin, elleri acıların ateşini tutuştursun.

¹¹Kemikleri gençliğinin gücüyle doluydu, ama onunla birlikte mezar toprağında yatacak.

¹²Kötülük ağzında tatlı gelse, onu dilinin altında gizlese bile;

¹³Onu esirgemeyip bırakmasa, gırtlağının ortasında biriktirse bile,

¹⁴Yine de kendine yardım etmeye asla gücü yetmeyecektir; karnındaki engerek safrasıdır.

¹⁵Haksızca topladığı serveti kusacak, bir melek onu evinden dışarı sürükleyecektir.

¹⁶Ejderhaların zehrini emsin, yılanın dili onu öldürsün.

¹⁷Göçebelerin sağdığı sütü, bal ve tereyağı akan otlakları görmesin.

¹⁸Boşuna ve beyhude emek verdi, tadamayacağı bir servet için; çiğnenemez, yutulamaz sert bir nesne gibidir bu.

¹⁹Çünkü birçok güçlünün evini yıkıp ezdi, inşa etmediği konutu zorla ele geçirdi.

²⁰Varlıkları ona kurtuluş getirmeyecek, arzusuyla kurtulamayacaktır.

²¹Yiyeceğinden geriye hiçbir şey kalmadı, bu yüzden iyi şeyleri çiçek açmayacaktır.

²²Tam doyduğunu sandığı an sıkıntıya düşecek, her türlü darlık üzerine gelecektir.

²³Karnını doyurmak istediğinde, Tanrı kızgın öfkesini onun üzerine göndersin, üzerine acılar yağdırsın.

²⁴Demirin elinden asla kurtulamayacak, tunç yay onu vurup yaralasın.

²⁵Ok bedenini delip geçsin, konutunda şimşekler çaksın; dehşetler yürüsün üzerine.

²⁶Her türlü karanlık onu beklesin, üflenmemiş bir ateş onu yiyip bitirecek, bir yabancı onun evine zarar versin.

²⁷Gökler onun suçlarını açığa çıkarsın, yer ona karşı ayaklansın.

²⁸Yıkım evini tamamen sürükleyip götürsün, öfke günü üzerine gelsin.

²⁹Tanrısız insanın Rab'den aldığı pay, Gözetici tarafından ona ayrılan mülk budur."

¹ΥΠΟΛΑΒΩΝ δὲ Σωφὰρ ὁ Μιναῖος λέγει·

²οὐχ οὕτως ὑπελάμβανον ἀντερεῖν σε ταῦτα, καὶ οὐχὶ συνίετε μᾶλλον ἢ καὶ ἐγώ.

³παιδείαν ἐντροπῆς μου ἀκούσομαι, καὶ πνεῦμα ἐκ τῆς συνέσεως ἀποκρίνεταί μοι.

⁴μὴ ταῦτα ἔγνως ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔτι, ἀφ᾿ οὗ ἐτέθη ἄνθρωπος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς;

⁵εὐφροσύνη γὰρ ἀσεβῶν πτῶμα ἐξαίσιον, χαρμονὴ δὲ παρανόμων ἀπώλεια,

⁶ἐὰν ἀναβῇ εἰς οὐρανὸν αὐτοῦ τὰ δῶρα, ἡ δὲ θυσία αὐτοῦ νεφῶν ἅψηται·

⁷ὅταν γὰρ δοκῇ ἤδη κατεστηρίχθαι, τότε εἰς τέλος ἀπολεῖται· οἱ δὲ εἰδότες αὐτὸν ἐροῦσι· ποῦ ἐστιν;

⁸ὥσπερ ἐνύπνιον ἐκπετασθὲν οὐ μὴ εὑρεθῇ, ἔπτη δὲ ὥσπερ φάσμα νυκτερινόν.

⁹ὀφθαλμὸς παρέβλεψε καὶ οὐ προσθήσει, καὶ οὐκέτι προσνοήσει αὐτὸν ὁ τόπος αὐτοῦ.

¹⁰τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ ὀλέσαισαν ἥττονες, αἱ δὲ χεῖρες αὐτοῦ πυρσεύσαισαν ὀδύνας.

¹¹ὀστᾶ αὐτοῦ ἐνεπλήσθησαν νεότητος αὐτοῦ, καὶ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ χώματος κοιμηθήσεται.

¹²ἐὰν γλυκανθῇ ἐν στόματι αὐτοῦ κακία, κρύψει αὐτὴν ὑπὸ τὴν γλῶσσαν αὐτοῦ·

¹³οὐ φείσεται αὐτῆς καὶ οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψει αὐτὴν καὶ συνάξει αὐτὴν ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ λάρυγγος αὐτοῦ,

¹⁴καὶ οὐ μὴ δυνηθῇ βοηθῆσαι ἑαυτῷ· χολὴ ἀσπίδος ἐν γαστρὶ αὐτοῦ.

¹⁵πλοῦτος ἀδίκως συναγόμενος ἐξεμεθήσεται, ἐξ οἰκίας αὐτοῦ ἐξελκύσει αὐτὸν ἄγγελος,

¹⁶θυμὸν δὲ δρακόντων θηλάσειεν, ἀνέλοι δὲ αὐτὸν γλῶσσα ὄφεως.

¹⁷μὴ ἴδοι ἄμελξιν νομάδων, μηδὲ νομὰς μέλιτος καὶ βουτύρου.

¹⁸εἰς κενὰ καὶ μάταια ἐκοπίασε, πλοῦτον ἐξ οὗ οὐ γεύσεται, ὥσπερ στρίφνος ἀμάσητος, ἀκατάποτος·

¹⁹πολλῶν γὰρ δυνατῶν οἴκους ἔθλασε, δίαιταν δὲ ἥρπασε, καὶ οὐκ ἔστησεν.

²⁰οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῦ σωτηρία τοῖς ὑπάρχουσιν, ἐν ἐπιθυμίᾳ αὐτοῦ οὐ σωθήσεται.

²¹οὐκ ἔστιν ὑπόλειμμα τοῖς βρώμασιν αὐτοῦ, διὰ τοῦτο οὐκ ἀνθήσει αὐτοῦ τὰ ἀγαθά.

²²ὅταν δὲ δοκῇ ἤδη πεπληρῶσθαι, θλιβήσεται, πᾶσα δὲ ἀνάγκη ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν ἐπελεύσεται.

²³εἴ πως πληρῶσαι γαστέρα αὐτοῦ, ἐπαποστεῖλαι ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν θυμὸν ὀργῆς, νίψαι ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν ὀδύνας·

²⁴καὶ οὐ μὴ σωθῇ ἐκ χειρὸς σιδήρου, τρώσαι αὐτὸν τόξον χάλκειον·

²⁵διεξέλθοι δὲ διὰ σώματος αὐτοῦ βέλος, ἀστραπαὶ δὲ ἐν διαίταις αὐτοῦ· περιπατήσαισαν ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ φόβοι,

²⁶πᾶν δὲ σκότος αὐτῷ ὑπομείναι· κατέδεται αὐτὸν πῦρ ἄκαυστον, κακώσαι δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐπήλυτος τὸν οἶκον.

²⁷ἀνακαλύψαι δὲ αὐτοῦ ὁ οὐρανὸς τὰς ἀνομίας, γῆ δὲ ἐπανασταίη αὐτῷ.

²⁸ἑλκύσαι τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ ἀπώλεια εἰς τέλος, ἡμέρα ὀργῆς ἐπέλθοι αὐτῷ.

²⁹αὕτη ἡ μερὶς ἀνθρώπου ἀσεβοῦς παρὰ Κυρίου, καὶ κτῆμα ὑπαρχόντων αὐτῷ παρὰ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου.

¹Then Sophar the Minaean answered and said,

²I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus: neither do ye understand more than I.

³I will hear my shameful reproach; and the spirit of my understanding answers me.

⁴Hast thou [not] known these things of old, from the time that man was set upon the earth?

⁵But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, and the joy of transgressors is destruction:

⁶although his gifts should go up to heaven, and his sacrifice reach the clouds.

⁷For when he shall seem to be now established, then he shall utterly perish: and they that knew him shall say, Where is he?

⁸Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found; and he has fled like a vision of the night.

⁹The eye has looked upon him, but shall not [see him] again; and his place shall no longer perceive him.

¹⁰Let [his] inferiors destroy his children, and let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow.

¹¹His bones have been filled with [vigour of] his youth, and it shall lie down with him in the dust.

¹²Though evil be sweet in his mouth, [though] he will hide it under his tongue;

¹³though he will not spare it, and will not leave it, but will keep it in the midst of his throat:

¹⁴yet he shall not at all be able to help himself; the gall of an asp is in his belly.

¹⁵[His] wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up; a messenger [of] [wrath] shall drag him out of his house.

¹⁶And let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the serpent’s tongue slay him.

¹⁷Let him not see the milk of the pastures, nor the supplies of honey and butter.

¹⁸He has laboured unprofitably and in vain, [for] wealth of which he shall not taste: [it is] as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he cannot swallow.

¹⁹For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built [it] not.

²⁰There is no security to his possessions; he shall not be saved by his desire.

²¹There is nothing remaining of his provisions; therefore his goods shall not flourish.

²²But when he shall seem to be just satisfied, he shall be straitened; and all distress shall come upon him.

²³If by any means he would fill his belly, let [God] send upon him the fury of wrath; let him bring a torrent of pains upon him.

²⁴And he shall by no means escape from the power of the sword; let the brazen bow wound him.

²⁵And let the arrow pierce through his body; and let the stars be against his dwelling-place: let terrors come upon him.

²⁶And let all darkness wait for him: a fire that burns not out shall consume him; and let a stranger plague his house.

²⁷And let the heaven reveal his iniquities, and the earth rise up against him.

²⁸Let destruction bring his house to an end; let a day of wrath come upon him.

²⁹This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of his goods [appointed him] by the all-seeing [God].