Tua Palavra

|Jó 20:1| Zophar of Naamath spoke next. He said:

|Jó 20:2| My thoughts urge me to reply to this, and hence the impatience that grips me.

|Jó 20:3| I have put up with prating that outrages me and now my mind inspires me with an answer.

|Jó 20:4| Do you not know, that since time began and human beings were set on the earth,

|Jó 20:5| the triumph of the wicked has always been brief, and the sinner's gladness has never lasted long?

|Jó 20:6| Towering to the sky he may have been, his head touching the clouds;

|Jó 20:7| but he vanishes, like a phantom, once for all, while those who used to see him, ask, 'Where is he?'

|Jó 20:8| Like a dream that leaves no trace he takes his flight, like a vision in the night he flies away.

|Jó 20:9| The eye accustomed to see him sees him no more, his home will never set eyes on him again.

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|Jó 20:10| His sons will have to reimburse the poor and his children pay back his riches.