أَيُّوبَ 18

١ 1 فَأَجَابَ بِلْدَدُ ٱلشُّوحِيُّ وَقَالَ:

Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —

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

How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.

٣ 3 لِمَاذَا حُسِبْنَا كَٱلْبَهِيمَةِ، وَتَنَجَّسْنَا فِي عُيُونِكُمْ؟

Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?

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

One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger, —For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its place?

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

Even the light of the lawless, shall go out, —Neither shall shine the flame of his fire;

٦ 6 ٱلنُّورُ يُظْلِمُ فِي خَيْمَتِهِ، وَسِرَاجُهُ فَوْقَهُ يَنْطَفِئُ.

The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;

٧ 7 تَقْصُرُ خَطَوَاتُ قُوَّتِهِ، وَتَصْرَعُهُ مَشُورَتُهُ.

The steppings of his strength are hemmed in, and his own counsel casteth him down;

٨ 8 لِأَنَّ رِجْلَيْهِ تَدْفَعَانِهِ فِي ٱلْمِصْلَاةِ فَيَمْشِي إِلَى شَبَكَةٍ.

For he is thrust into a net by his own feet, and, upon a trap, he marcheth;

٩ 9 يُمْسِكُ ٱلْفَخُّ بِعَقِبِهِ، وَتَتَمَكَّنُ مِنْهُ ٱلشَّرَكُ.

There catcheth him—by the heel—a gin, there holdeth him fast—a noose:

١٠ 10 مَطْمُورَةٌ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ حِبَالَتُهُ، وَمِصْيَدَتُهُ فِي ٱلسَّبِيلِ.

Concealed in the ground is a cord for him, —and a snare for him, on the path.

١١ 11 تُرْهِبُهُ أَهْوَالٌ مِنْ حَوْلِهِ، وَتَذْعَرُهُ عِنْدَ رِجْلَيْهِ.

Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet.

١٢ 12 تَكُونُ قُوَّتُهُ جَائِعَةً وَٱلْبَوَارُ مُهَيَّأٌ بِجَانِبِهِ.

Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side;

١٣ 13 يَأْكُلُ أَعْضَاءَ جَسَدِهِ. يَأْكُلُ أَعْضَاءَهُ بِكْرُ ٱلْمَوْتِ.

Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members;

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

Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors;

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

There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;

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

Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch;

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

His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field;

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

Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;

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

Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:

٢٠ 20 يَتَعَجَّبُ مِنْ يَوْمِهِ ٱلْمُتَأَخِّرُونَ، وَيَقْشَعِرُّ ٱلْأَقْدَمُونَ.

Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.

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

Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD.