أَيُّوبَ 18

١ 1 فَأَجَابَ بِلْدَدُ ٱلشُّوحِيُّ وَقَالَ:

And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —

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

When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.

٣ 3 لِمَاذَا حُسِبْنَا كَٱلْبَهِيمَةِ، وَتَنَجَّسْنَا فِي عُيُونِكُمْ؟

Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

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

(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

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

Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

٦ 6 ٱلنُّورُ يُظْلِمُ فِي خَيْمَتِهِ، وَسِرَاجُهُ فَوْقَهُ يَنْطَفِئُ.

The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

٧ 7 تَقْصُرُ خَطَوَاتُ قُوَّتِهِ، وَتَصْرَعُهُ مَشُورَتُهُ.

Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.

٨ 8 لِأَنَّ رِجْلَيْهِ تَدْفَعَانِهِ فِي ٱلْمِصْلَاةِ فَيَمْشِي إِلَى شَبَكَةٍ.

For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.

٩ 9 يُمْسِكُ ٱلْفَخُّ بِعَقِبِهِ، وَتَتَمَكَّنُ مِنْهُ ٱلشَّرَكُ.

Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.

١٠ 10 مَطْمُورَةٌ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ حِبَالَتُهُ، وَمِصْيَدَتُهُ فِي ٱلسَّبِيلِ.

Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.

١١ 11 تُرْهِبُهُ أَهْوَالٌ مِنْ حَوْلِهِ، وَتَذْعَرُهُ عِنْدَ رِجْلَيْهِ.

Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet.

١٢ 12 تَكُونُ قُوَّتُهُ جَائِعَةً وَٱلْبَوَارُ مُهَيَّأٌ بِجَانِبِهِ.

Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.

١٣ 13 يَأْكُلُ أَعْضَاءَ جَسَدِهِ. يَأْكُلُ أَعْضَاءَهُ بِكْرُ ٱلْمَوْتِ.

It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.

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

Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.

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

It dwelleth in his tent — out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.

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

From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.

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

His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.

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

They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

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

He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.

٢٠ 20 يَتَعَجَّبُ مِنْ يَوْمِهِ ٱلْمُتَأَخِّرُونَ، وَيَقْشَعِرُّ ٱلْأَقْدَمُونَ.

At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.

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

Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.