أَيُّوبَ 18

١ 1 فَأَجَابَ بِلْدَدُ ٱلشُّوحِيُّ وَقَالَ:

Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

٢ 2 «إِلَى مَتَى تَضَعُونَ أَشْرَاكًا لِلْكَلَامِ؟ تَعَقَّلُوا وَبَعْدُ نَتَكَلَّمُ.

How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.

٣ 3 لِمَاذَا حُسِبْنَا كَٱلْبَهِيمَةِ، وَتَنَجَّسْنَا فِي عُيُونِكُمْ؟

For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?

٤ 4 يَا أَيُّهَا ٱلْمُفْتَرِسُ نَفْسَهُ فِي غَيْظِهِ، هَلْ لِأَجْلِكَ تُخْلَى ٱلْأَرْضُ، أَوْ يُزَحْزَحُ ٱلصَّخْرُ مِنْ مَكَانِهِ؟

Anger has possessed you: for what if you should die; would [the earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

٥ 5 «نَعَمْ! نُورُ ٱلْأَشْرَارِ يَنْطَفِئُ، وَلَا يُضِيءُ لَهِيبُ نَارِهِ.

But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.

٦ 6 ٱلنُّورُ يُظْلِمُ فِي خَيْمَتِهِ، وَسِرَاجُهُ فَوْقَهُ يَنْطَفِئُ.

His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

٧ 7 تَقْصُرُ خَطَوَاتُ قُوَّتِهِ، وَتَصْرَعُهُ مَشُورَتُهُ.

Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].

٨ 8 لِأَنَّ رِجْلَيْهِ تَدْفَعَانِهِ فِي ٱلْمِصْلَاةِ فَيَمْشِي إِلَى شَبَكَةٍ.

His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.

٩ 9 يُمْسِكُ ٱلْفَخُّ بِعَقِبِهِ، وَتَتَمَكَّنُ مِنْهُ ٱلشَّرَكُ.

And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.

١٠ 10 مَطْمُورَةٌ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ حِبَالَتُهُ، وَمِصْيَدَتُهُ فِي ٱلسَّبِيلِ.

His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.

١١ 11 تُرْهِبُهُ أَهْوَالٌ مِنْ حَوْلِهِ، وَتَذْعَرُهُ عِنْدَ رِجْلَيْهِ.

Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,

١٢ 12 تَكُونُ قُوَّتُهُ جَائِعَةً وَٱلْبَوَارُ مُهَيَّأٌ بِجَانِبِهِ.

[vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.

١٣ 13 يَأْكُلُ أَعْضَاءَ جَسَدِهِ. يَأْكُلُ أَعْضَاءَهُ بِكْرُ ٱلْمَوْتِ.

Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.

١٤ 14 يَنْقَطِعُ عَنْ خَيْمَتِهِ، عَنِ ٱعْتِمَادِهِ، وَيُسَاقُ إِلَى مَلِكِ ٱلْأَهْوَالِ.

And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.

١٥ 15 يَسْكُنُ فِي خَيْمَتِهِ مَنْ لَيْسَ لَهُ. يُذَرُّ عَلَى مَرْبِضِهِ كِبْرِيتٌ.

It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

١٦ 16 مِنْ تَحْتُ تَيْبَسُ أُصُولُهُ، وَمِنْ فَوْقُ يُقْطَعُ فَرْعُهُ.

His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.

١٧ 17 ذِكْرُهُ يَبِيدُ مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ، وَلَا ٱسْمَ لَهُ عَلَى وَجْهِ ٱلْبَرِّ.

Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.

١٨ 18 يُدْفَعُ مِنَ ٱلنُّورِ إِلَى ٱلظُّلْمَةِ، وَمِنَ ٱلْمَسْكُونَةِ يُطْرَدُ.

Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

١٩ 19 لَا نَسْلَ وَلَا عَقِبَ لَهُ بَيْنَ شَعْبِهِ، وَلَا شَارِدَ فِي مَحَالِّهِ.

He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

٢٠ 20 يَتَعَجَّبُ مِنْ يَوْمِهِ ٱلْمُتَأَخِّرُونَ، وَيَقْشَعِرُّ ٱلْأَقْدَمُونَ.

But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.

٢١ 21 إِنَّمَا تِلْكَ مَسَاكِنُ فَاعِلِي ٱلشَّرِّ، وَهَذَا مَقَامُ مَنْ لَا يَعْرِفُ ٱللهَ».

These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.