أَيُّوبَ 15

١ 1 فَأَجَابَ أَلِيفَازُ ٱلتَّيْمَانِيُّ وَقَالَ:

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

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

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

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

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

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

Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

٥ 5 لِأَنَّ فَمَكَ يُذِيعُ إِثْمَكَ، وَتَخْتَارُ لِسَانَ ٱلْمُحْتَالِينَ.

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

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

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

٧ 7 «أَصُوِّرْتَ أَوَّلَ ٱلنَّاسِ أَمْ أُبْدِئْتَ قَبْلَ ٱلتِّلَالِ؟

“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?

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

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

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

What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?

١٠ 10 عِنْدَنَا ٱلشَّيْخُ وَٱلْأَشْيَبُ، أَكْبَرُ أَيَّامًا مِنْ أَبِيكَ.

With us are both the grey-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.

١١ 11 أَقَلِيلَةٌ عِنْدَكَ تَعْزِيَاتُ ٱللهِ، وَٱلْكَلَامُ مَعَكَ بِٱلرِّفْقِ؟

Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle towards you?

١٢ 12 «لِمَاذَا يَأْخُذُكَ قَلْبُكَ؟ وَلِمَاذَا تَخْتَلِجُ عَيْنَاكَ

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

١٣ 13 حَتَّى تَرُدَّ عَلَى ٱللهِ وَتُخْرِجَ مِنْ فِيكَ أَقْوَالًا؟

that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

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

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

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

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

١٦ 16 فَبِالْحَرِيِّ مَكْرُوهٌ وَفَاسِدٌ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ ٱلشَّارِبُ ٱلْإِثْمَ كَٱلْمَاءِ!

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

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

“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare

١٨ 18 مَا أَخْبَرَ بِهِ حُكَمَاءُ عَنْ آبَائِهِمْ فَلَمْ يَكْتُمُوهُ.

(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

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

to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed amongst them):

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

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

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

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

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

He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

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

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

٢٥ 25 لِأَنَّهُ مَدَّ عَلَى ٱللهِ يَدَهُ، وَعَلَى ٱلْقَدِيرِ تَجَبَّرَ

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,

٢٦ 26 عَادِيًا عَلَيْهِ، مُتَصَلِّبُ ٱلْعُنُقِ بِأَوْقَافِ مَجَانِّهِ مُعَبَّأَةً.

he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,

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

because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.

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

He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

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

He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.

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

He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.

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

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.

٣٢ 32 قَبْلَ يَوْمِهِ يُتَوَفَّى، وَسَعَفُهُ لَا يَخْضَرُّ.

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

٣٣ 33 يُسَاقِطُ كَٱلْجَفْنَةِ حِصْرِمَهُ، وَيَنْثُرُ كَٱلزَّيْتُونِ زَهْرُهُ.

He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.

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

For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

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

They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”