أَيُّوبَ 16

١ 1 فَأَجَابَ أَيُّوبُ وَقَالَ:

But Job answered and said,

٢ 2 «قَدْ سَمِعْتُ كَثِيرًا مِثْلَ هَذَا. مُعَزُّونَ مُتْعِبُونَ كُلُّكُمْ!

I have heard many such things: poor comforters are you all.

٣ 3 هَلْ مِنْ نِهَايَةٍ لِكَلَامٍ فَارِغٍ؟ أَوْ مَاذَا يُهَيِّجُكَ حَتَّى تُجَاوِبَ؟

What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder you from answering?

٤ 4 أَنَا أَيْضًا أَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ أَتَكَلَّمَ مِثْلَكُمْ، لَوْ كَانَتْ أَنْفُسُكُمْ مَكَانَ نَفْسِي، وَأَنْ أَسْرُدَ عَلَيْكُمْ أَقْوَالًا وَأُنْغِضَ رَأْسِي إِلَيْكُمْ.

I also will speak as you [do]: if indeed your soul were in my [soul's] stead, then would I insult you with words, and I would shake my head at you.

٥ 5 بَلْ كُنْتُ أُشَدِّدُكُمْ بِفَمِي، وَتَعْزِيَةُ شَفَتَيَّ تُمْسِكُكُمْ.

And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.

٦ 6 «إِنْ تَكَلَّمْتُ لَمْ تَمْتَنِعْ كَآبَتِي، وَإِنْ سَكَتُّ فَمَاذَا يَذْهَبُ عَنِّي؟

For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less?

٧ 7 إِنَّهُ ٱلْآنَ ضَجَّرَنِي. خَرَّبْتَ كُلَّ جَمَاعَتِي.

But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and you have laid hold of me.

٨ 8 قَبَضْتَ عَلَيَّ. وُجِدَ شَاهِدٌ. قَامَ عَلَيَّ هُزَالِي يُجَاوِبُ فِي وَجْهِي.

My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.

٩ 9 غَضَبُهُ ٱفْتَرَسَنِي وَٱضْطَهَدَنِي. حَرَقَ عَلَيَّ أَسْنَانَهُ. عَدُوِّي يُحَدِّدُ عَيْنَيْهِ عَلَيَّ.

In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.

١٠ 10 فَغَرُوا عَلَيَّ أَفْوَاهَهُمْ. لَطَمُونِي عَلَى فَكِّي تَعْيِيرًا. تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَيَّ جَمِيعًا.

He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp [spear] he has struck me [down] upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord.

١١ 11 دَفَعَنِيَ ٱللهُ إِلَى ٱلظَّالِمِ، وَفِي أَيْدِي ٱلْأَشْرَارِ طَرَحَنِي.

For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.

١٢ 12 كُنْتُ مُسْتَرِيحًا فَزَعْزَعَنِي، وَأَمْسَكَ بِقَفَايَ فَحَطَّمَنِي، وَنَصَبَنِي لَهُ غَرَضًا.

When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.

١٣ 13 أَحَاطَتْ بِي رُمَاتُهُ. شَقَّ كُلْيَتَيَّ وَلَمْ يُشْفِقْ. سَفَكَ مَرَارَتِي عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ.

They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing [me] they poured out my gall upon the ground.

١٤ 14 يَقْتَحِمُنِي ٱقْتِحَامًا عَلَى ٱقْتِحَامٍ. يَعْدُو عَلَيَّ كَجَبَّارٍ.

They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in [their] might.

١٥ 15 خِطْتُ مِسْحًا عَلَى جِلْدِي، وَدَسَسْتُ فِي ٱلتُّرَابِ قَرْنِي.

They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.

١٦ 16 اِحْمَرَّ وَجْهِي مِنَ ٱلْبُكَاءِ، وَعَلَى هُدْبِي ظِلُّ ٱلْمَوْتِ.

My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.

١٧ 17 مَعَ أَنَّهُ لَا ظُلْمَ فِي يَدِي، وَصَلَاتِي خَالِصَةٌ.

Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

١٨ 18 «يَا أَرْضُ لَا تُغَطِّي دَمِي، وَلَا يَكُنْ مَكَانٌ لِصُرَاخِي.

Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place.

١٩ 19 أَيْضًا ٱلْآنَ هُوَذَا فِي ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ شَهِيدِي، وَشَاهِدِي فِي ٱلْأَعَالِي.

And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

٢٠ 20 ٱلْمُسْتَهْزِئُونَ بِي هُمْ أَصْحَابِي. لِلهِ تَقْطُرُ عَيْنِي

Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.

٢١ 21 لِكَيْ يُحَاكِمَ ٱلْإِنْسَانَ عِنْدَ ٱللهِ كَٱبْنِ آدَمَ لَدَى صَاحِبِهِ.

Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even [as] the son of man with his neighbour!

٢٢ 22 إِذَا مَضَتْ سِنُونَ قَلِيلَةٌ أَسْلُكُ فِي طَرِيقٍ لَا أَعُودُ مِنْهَا.

But my years are numbered and [their end] come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.