أَيُّوبَ 10
| «قَدْ كَرِهَتْ نَفْسِي حَيَاتِي. أُسَيِّبُ شَكْوَايَ. أَتَكَلَّمُ فِي مَرَارَةِ نَفْسِي | ١ 1 |
My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
| قَائِلًا لِلهِ: لَا تَسْتَذْنِبْنِي. فَهِّمْنِي لِمَاذَا تُخَاصِمُنِي! | ٢ 2 |
I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so.
| أَحَسَنٌ عِنْدَكَ أَنْ تَظْلِمَ، أَنْ تُرْذِلَ عَمَلَ يَدَيْكَ، وَتُشْرِقَ عَلَى مَشُورَةِ ٱلْأَشْرَارِ؟ | ٣ 3 |
Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?
| أَلَكَ عَيْنَا بَشَرٍ، أَمْ كَنَظَرِ ٱلْإِنْسَانِ تَنْظُرُ؟ | ٤ 4 |
Hast thou eyes of flesh: or, shalt thou see as man seeth?
| أَأَيَّامُكَ كَأَيَّامِ ٱلْإِنْسَانِ، أَمْ سِنُوكَ كَأَيَّامِ ٱلرَّجُلِ، | ٥ 5 |
Are thy days as the days of man, and are thy years as the times of men:
| حَتَّى تَبْحَثَ عَنْ إِثْمِي وَتُفَتِّشَ عَلَى خَطِيَّتِي؟ | ٦ 6 |
That thou shouldst inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
| فِي عِلْمِكَ أَنِّي لَسْتُ مُذْنِبًا، وَلَا مُنْقِذَ مِنْ يَدِكَ. | ٧ 7 |
And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand.
| «يَدَاكَ كَوَّنَتَانِي وَصَنَعَتَانِي كُلِّي جَمِيعًا، أَفَتَبْتَلِعُنِي؟ | ٨ 8 |
Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?
| اُذْكُرْ أَنَّكَ جَبَلْتَنِي كَٱلطِّينِ، أَفَتُعِيدُنِي إِلَى ٱلتُّرَابِ؟ | ٩ 9 |
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust again.
| أَلَمْ تَصُبَّنِي كَٱللَّبَنِ، وَخَثَّرْتَنِي كَٱلْجُبْنِ؟ | ١٠ 10 |
Hast thou not milked me as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
| كَسَوْتَنِي جِلْدًا وَلَحْمًا، فَنَسَجْتَنِي بِعِظَامٍ وَعَصَبٍ. | ١١ 11 |
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh: thou hast put me together with bones and sinews:
| مَنَحْتَنِي حَيَاةً وَرَحْمَةً، وَحَفِظَتْ عِنَايَتُكَ رُوحِي. | ١٢ 12 |
Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
| لَكِنَّكَ كَتَمْتَ هَذِهِ فِي قَلْبِكَ. عَلِمْتُ أَنَّ هَذَا عِنْدَكَ: | ١٣ 13 |
Although thou conceal these things in thy heart, yet I know that thou rememberest all things.
| إِنْ أَخْطَأْتُ تُلَاحِظُنِي وَلَا تُبْرِئُنِي مِنْ إِثْمِي. | ١٤ 14 |
If I have sinned and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?
| إِنْ أَذْنَبْتُ فَوَيْلٌ لِي، وَإِنْ تَبَرَّرْتُ لَا أَرْفَعُ رَأْسِي. إِنِّي شَبْعَانُ هَوَانًا وَنَاظِرٌ مَذَلَّتِي. | ١٥ 15 |
And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.
| وَإِنِ ٱرْتَفَعْتُ تَصْطَادُنِي كَأَسَدٍ، ثُمَّ تَعُودُ وَتَتَجَبَّرُ عَلَيَّ. | ١٦ 16 |
And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning thou tormentest me wonderfully.
| تُجَدِّدُ شُهُودَكَ تُجَاهِي، وَتَزِيدُ غَضَبَكَ عَلَيَّ. نُوبٌ وَجَيْشٌ ضِدِّي. | ١٧ 17 |
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy wrath upon me, and pains war against me.
| «فَلِمَاذَا أَخْرَجْتَنِي مِنَ ٱلرَّحِمِ؟ كُنْتُ قَدْ أَسْلَمْتُ ٱلرُّوحَ وَلَمْ تَرَنِي عَيْنٌ! | ١٨ 18 |
Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb: O that I had been consumed that eye might not see me!
| فَكُنْتُ كَأَنِّي لَمْ أَكُنْ، فَأُقَادَ مِنَ ٱلرَّحِمِ إِلَى ٱلْقَبْرِ. | ١٩ 19 |
I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
| أَلَيْسَتْ أَيَّامِي قَلِيلَةً؟ ٱتْرُكْ! كُفَّ عَنِّي فَأَتَبَلَّجَ قَلِيلًا، | ٢٠ 20 |
Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:
| قَبْلَ أَنْ أَذْهَبَ وَلَا أَعُودَ. إِلَى أَرْضِ ظُلْمَةٍ وَظِلِّ ٱلْمَوْتِ، | ٢١ 21 |
Before I go, and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:
| أَرْضِ ظَلَامٍ مِثْلِ دُجَى ظِلِّ ٱلْمَوْتِ وَبِلَا تَرْتِيبٍ، وَإِشْرَاقُهَا كَٱلدُّجَى». | ٢٢ 22 |
A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.
