أَيُّوبَ 15

١ 1 فَأَجَابَ أَلِيفَازُ ٱلتَّيْمَانِيُّ وَقَالَ:

Then answered Eliphaz the Themanite, and said,

٢ 2 «أَلَعَلَّ ٱلْحَكِيمَ يُجِيبُ عَنْ مَعْرِفَةٍ بَاطِلَةٍ، وَيَمْلَأُ بَطْنَهُ مِنْ رِيحٍ شَرْقِيَّةٍ،

Should a wise man utter windy knowledge, and fill his inward parts with the east wind?

٣ 3 فَيَحْتَجَّ بِكَلَامٍ لَا يُفِيدُ، وَبِأَحَادِيثَ لَا يَنْتَفِعُ بِهَا؟

Should he reason with a speech which availeth nothing? and with words in which there is no profit?

٤ 4 أَمَّا أَنْتَ فَتُنَافِي ٱلْمَخَافَةَ، وَتُنَاقِضُ ٱلتَّقْوَى لَدَى ٱللهِ.

Yea, thou truly makest void the fear [of God], and diminishest devotion before God.

٥ 5 لِأَنَّ فَمَكَ يُذِيعُ إِثْمَكَ، وَتَخْتَارُ لِسَانَ ٱلْمُحْتَالِينَ.

For thy iniquity teacheth thy mouth, so that thou choosest the language of the crafty.

٦ 6 إِنَّ فَمَكَ يَسْتَذْنِبُكَ، لَا أَنَا، وَشَفَتَاكَ تَشْهَدَانِ عَلَيْكَ.

Thy own mouth must condemn thee, but not I: yea, thy own lips will testify against thee.

٧ 7 «أَصُوِّرْتَ أَوَّلَ ٱلنَّاسِ أَمْ أُبْدِئْتَ قَبْلَ ٱلتِّلَالِ؟

Wast thou born as the first man? or wast thou brought forth before the hills?

٨ 8 هَلْ تَنَصَّتَّ فِي مَجْلِسِ ٱللهِ، أَوْ قَصَرْتَ ٱلْحِكْمَةَ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ؟

Hast thou listened to the secret counsel of God? and is wisdom therefore of little esteem with thee?

٩ 9 مَاذَا تَعْرِفُهُ وَلَا نَعْرِفُهُ نَحْنُ؟ وَمَاذَا تَفْهَمُ وَلَيْسَ هُوَ عِنْدَنَا؟

What knowest thou, that we do not know? what understandest thou, which is not with us?

١٠ 10 عِنْدَنَا ٱلشَّيْخُ وَٱلْأَشْيَبُ، أَكْبَرُ أَيَّامًا مِنْ أَبِيكَ.

Both the grayheaded and the very aged are among us, — richer than thy father in days.

١١ 11 أَقَلِيلَةٌ عِنْدَكَ تَعْزِيَاتُ ٱللهِ، وَٱلْكَلَامُ مَعَكَ بِٱلرِّفْقِ؟

Are the divine consolations too little for thee? and the word that was so mild with thee?

١٢ 12 «لِمَاذَا يَأْخُذُكَ قَلْبُكَ؟ وَلِمَاذَا تَخْتَلِجُ عَيْنَاكَ

Whither doth thy heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes gaze at?

١٣ 13 حَتَّى تَرُدَّ عَلَى ٱللهِ وَتُخْرِجَ مِنْ فِيكَ أَقْوَالًا؟

That thou shouldst turn against God thy spirit, and utter [such] words out of thy mouth?

١٤ 14 مَنْ هُوَ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ حَتَّى يَزْكُوَ، أَوْ مَوْلُودُ ٱلْمَرْأَةِ حَتَّى يَتَبَرَّرَ؟

What is man, that he should be pure? and that he who is born of woman should be declared righteous?

١٥ 15 هُوَذَا قِدِّيسُوهُ لَا يَأْتَمِنُهُمْ، وَٱلسَّمَاوَاتُ غَيْرُ طَاهِرَةٍ بِعَيْنَيْهِ،

Behold, in his holy ones he putteth no trust; and the heavens are not pure in his eyes:

١٦ 16 فَبِالْحَرِيِّ مَكْرُوهٌ وَفَاسِدٌ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ ٱلشَّارِبُ ٱلْإِثْمَ كَٱلْمَاءِ!

How much more then the abominable and corrupt, the man who drinketh like water wrong-doing?

١٧ 17 «أُوحِي إِلَيْكَ، ٱسْمَعْ لِي فَأُحَدِّثَ بِمَا رَأَيْتُهُ،

I will instruct thee, hear me; and what I have seen will I relate;

١٨ 18 مَا أَخْبَرَ بِهِ حُكَمَاءُ عَنْ آبَائِهِمْ فَلَمْ يَكْتُمُوهُ.

Which wise men have ever told, and have not concealed, as they obtained it from their fathers;

١٩ 19 ٱلَّذِينَ لَهُمْ وَحْدَهُمْ أُعْطِيَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ، وَلَمْ يَعْبُرْ بَيْنَهُمْ غَرِيبٌ.

Unto whom alone the earth was given, and into whose midst no stranger ever entered.

٢٠ 20 ٱلشِّرِّيرُ هُوَ يَتَلَوَّى كُلَّ أَيَّامِهِ، وَكُلَّ عَدَدِ ٱلسِّنِينَ ٱلْمَعْدُودَةِ لِلْعَاتِي.

All his days is the wicked plagued with pain, and the number of years which are laid by for the tyrant.

٢١ 21 صَوْتُ رُعُوبٍ فِي أُذُنَيْهِ. فِي سَاعَةِ سَلَامٍ يَأْتِيهِ ٱلْمُخَرِّبُ.

A sound of terrors is in his ears: during peace will the waster come over him.

٢٢ 22 لَا يَأْمُلُ ٱلرُّجُوعَ مِنَ ٱلظُّلْمَةِ، وَهُوَ مُرْتَقَبٌ لِلسَّيْفِ.

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is looked for by the sword.

٢٣ 23 تَائِهٌ هُوَ لِأَجْلِ ٱلْخُبْزِ حَيْثُمَا يَجِدْهُ، وَيَعْلَمُ أَنَّ يَوْمَ ٱلظُّلْمَةِ مُهَيَّأٌ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ.

He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying, ] Where is it? he knoweth that there is ready at his hand the day of darkness.

٢٤ 24 يُرْهِبُهُ ٱلضُّرُّ وَٱلضَّيْقُ. يَتَجَبَّرَانِ عَلَيْهِ كَمَلِكٍ مُسْتَعِدٍّ لِلْوَغَى.

Distress and anguish terrify him: they assail him with might, as a king prepared for the battle.

٢٥ 25 لِأَنَّهُ مَدَّ عَلَى ٱللهِ يَدَهُ، وَعَلَى ٱلْقَدِيرِ تَجَبَّرَ

Because he had stretched out against God his hand, and strengthened himself against the Almighty;

٢٦ 26 عَادِيًا عَلَيْهِ، مُتَصَلِّبُ ٱلْعُنُقِ بِأَوْقَافِ مَجَانِّهِ مُعَبَّأَةً.

[And] he had run against him, with an [extended] neck, with the thick roundings of his bucklers;

٢٧ 27 لِأَنَّهُ قَدْ كَسَا وَجْهَهُ سَمْنًا، وَرَبَّى شَحْمًا عَلَى كِلْيَتَيْهِ،

Because he had covered his face with his fat, and had made thick folds of fat on his flanks;

٢٨ 28 فَيَسْكُنُ مُدُنًا خَرِبَةً، بُيُوتًا غَيْرَ مَسْكُونَةٍ عَتِيدَةً أَنْ تَصِيرَ رُجَمًا.

And he dwelt in abandoned cities, in houses which none inhabited, which were destined to be ruinous heaps.

٢٩ 29 لَا يَسْتَغْنِي، وَلَا تَثْبُتُ ثَرْوَتُهُ، وَلَا يَمْتَدُّ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ مُقْتَنَاهُ.

[Yet] will he not remain rich, neither will his wealth endure, nor will he attain their perfection on earth.

٣٠ 30 لَا تَزُولُ عَنْهُ ٱلظُّلْمَةُ. خَرَاعِيبُهُ تُيَبِّسُهَا ٱلسُّمُومُ، وَبِنَفْخَةِ فَمِهِ يَزُولُ.

He will never depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his shoots, and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth.

٣١ 31 لَا يَتَّكِلْ عَلَى ٱلسُّوءِ. يَضِلُّ. لِأَنَّ ٱلسُّوءَ يَكُونُ أُجْرَتَهُ.

Let him that goeth astray not trust in vanity; for vanity will be what he obtaineth thereby.

٣٢ 32 قَبْلَ يَوْمِهِ يُتَوَفَّى، وَسَعَفُهُ لَا يَخْضَرُّ.

Even before his time will it be overfull, and his branches will not be green.

٣٣ 33 يُسَاقِطُ كَٱلْجَفْنَةِ حِصْرِمَهُ، وَيَنْثُرُ كَٱلزَّيْتُونِ زَهْرُهُ.

He will shake off like the vine his unripe grapes, and cast off like the olive his blossoms.

٣٤ 34 لِأَنَّ جَمَاعَةَ ٱلْفُجَّارِ عَاقِرٌ، وَٱلنَّارُ تَأْكُلُ خِيَامَ ٱلرَّشْوَةِ.

For the assembly of hypocrites will remain desolate, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

٣٥ 35 حَبِلَ شَقَاوَةً وَوَلَدَ إِثْمًا، وَبَطْنُهُ أَنْشَأَ غِشًّا».

They conceive trouble, and bring forth wrong-doing, and their body prepareth deceit.