أَيُّوبَ 19

١ 1 فَأَجَابَ أَيُّوبُ وَقَالَ:

Then responded Job, and said: —

٢ 2 «حَتَّى مَتَى تُعَذِّبُونَ نَفْسِي وَتَسْحَقُونَنِي بِٱلْكَلَامِ؟

How long will ye grieve my soul? or crush me with words?

٣ 3 هَذِهِ عَشَرَ مَرَّاتٍ أَخْزَيْتُمُونِي. لَمْ تَخْجَلُوا مِنْ أَنْ تَحْكِرُونِي.

These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.

٤ 4 وَهَبْنِي ضَلَلْتُ حَقًّا. عَلَيَّ تَسْتَقِرُّ ضَلَالَتِي!

And even if indeed I have erred, with myself lodgeth mine error.

٥ 5 إِنْ كُنْتُمْ بِٱلْحَقِّ تَسْتَكْبِرُونَ عَلَيَّ، فَثَبِّتُوا عَلَيَّ عَارِي.

If indeed, against me, ye must needs magnify yourselves, and plead, against me, my reproach.

٦ 6 فَٱعْلَمُوا إِذًا أَنَّ ٱللهَ قَدْ عَوَّجَنِي، وَلَفَّ عَلَيَّ أُحْبُولَتَهُ.

Know, then, that, God, hath overthrown me, and, within his net, enclosed me.

٧ 7 هَا إِنِّي أَصْرُخُ ظُلْمًا فَلَا أُسْتَجَابُ. أَدْعُو وَلَيْسَ حُكْمٌ.

Lo! I cry—out: Violence! but receive no answer, I cry aloud, but there is no vindication;

٨ 8 قَدْ حَوَّطَ طَرِيقِي فَلَا أَعْبُرُ، وَعَلَى سُبُلِي جَعَلَ ظَلَامًا.

My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;

٩ 9 أَزَالَ عَنِّي كَرَامَتِي وَنَزَعَ تَاجَ رَأْسِي.

My glory—from off me, hath he stripped, and hath removed the crown of my head;

١٠ 10 هَدَمَنِي مِنْ كُلِّ جِهَةٍ فَذَهَبْتُ، وَقَلَعَ مِثْلَ شَجَرَةٍ رَجَائِي،

He hath ruined me on every side, and I am gone, and he hath taken away—like a tree—my hope;

١١ 11 وَأَضْرَمَ عَلَيَّ غَضَبَهُ، وَحَسِبَنِي كَأَعْدَائِهِ.

Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries;

١٢ 12 مَعًا جَاءَتْ غُزَاتُهُ، وَأَعَدُّوا عَلَيَّ طَرِيقَهُمْ، وَحَلُّوا حَوْلَ خَيْمَتِي.

Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent;

١٣ 13 قَدْ أَبْعَدَ عَنِّي إِخْوَتِي، وَمَعَارِفِي زَاغُوا عَنِّي.

My Brethren—from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me;

١٤ 14 أَقَارِبِي قَدْ خَذَلُونِي، وَٱلَّذِينَ عَرَفُونِي نَسُونِي.

Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;

١٥ 15 نُزَلَاءُ بَيْتِي وَإِمَائِي يَحْسِبُونَنِي أَجْنَبِيًّا. صِرْتُ فِي أَعْيُنِهِمْ غَرِيبًا.

Ye guests of my house and my maidens, A stranger, have ye accounted me, An alien, have I become in their eyes;

١٦ 16 عَبْدِي دَعَوْتُ فَلَمْ يُجِبْ. بِفَمِي تَضَرَّعْتُ إِلَيْهِ.

To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him;

١٧ 17 نَكْهَتِي مَكْرُوهَةٌ عِنْدَ ٱمْرَأَتِي، وَخَمَمْتُ عِنْدَ أَبْنَاءِ أَحْشَائِي.

My breath, is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my own mother;

١٨ 18 اَلْأَوْلَادُ أَيْضًا قَدْ رَذَلُونِي. إِذَا قُمْتُ يَتَكَلَّمُونَ عَلَيَّ.

Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me;

١٩ 19 كَرِهَنِي كُلُّ رِجَالِي، وَٱلَّذِينَ أَحْبَبْتُهُمُ ٱنْقَلَبُوا عَلَيَّ.

All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;

٢٠ 20 عَظْمِي قَدْ لَصِقَ بِجِلْدِي وَلَحْمِي، وَنَجَوْتُ بِجِلْدِ أَسْنَانِي.

Unto my skin and unto my flesh, have my bones cleaved, and I have escaped with the akin of my teeth.

٢١ 21 تَرَاءَفُوا، تَرَاءَفُوا أَنْتُمْ عَلَيَّ يَا أَصْحَابِي، لِأَنَّ يَدَ ٱللهِ قَدْ مَسَّتْنِي.

Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken me!

٢٢ 22 لِمَاذَا تُطَارِدُونَنِي كَمَا ٱللهُ، وَلَا تَشْبَعُونَ مِنْ لَحْمِي؟

Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied?

٢٣ 23 «لَيْتَ كَلِمَاتِي ٱلْآنَ تُكْتَبُ. يَا لَيْتَهَا رُسِمَتْ فِي سِفْرٍ،

Oh, then, that my words, could be written, Oh that, in a record, they could be inscribed:

٢٤ 24 وَنُقِرَتْ إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ فِي ٱلصَّخْرِ بِقَلَمِ حَدِيدٍ وَبِرَصَاصٍ.

That, with a stylus of iron and [with] lead, for all time—in the rock, they could be graven!

٢٥ 25 أَمَّا أَنَا فَقَدْ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّ وَلِيِّي حَيٌّ، وَٱلْآخِرَ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ يَقُومُ،

But, I, know that, my redeemer, liveth, and, as the Last over [my] dust, will he arise;

٢٦ 26 وَبَعْدَ أَنْ يُفْنَى جِلْدِي هَذَا، وَبِدُونِ جَسَدِي أَرَى ٱللهَ.

And, though, after my skin is struck off, this [followeth], yet, apart from my flesh, shall I see GOD:

٢٧ 27 ٱلَّذِي أَرَاهُ أَنَا لِنَفْسِي، وَعَيْنَايَ تَنْظُرَانِ وَلَيْسَ آخَرُ. إِلَى ذَلِكَ تَتُوقُ كُلْيَتَايَ فِي جَوْفِي.

Whom, I myself, shall see, on my side, and, mine own eyes, [shall] have looked upon, and not those of a stranger. Exhausted are my deepest desires in my bosom!

٢٨ 28 فَإِنَّكُمْ تَقُولُونَ: لِمَاذَا نُطَارِدُهُ؟ وَٱلْكَلَامُ ٱلْأَصْلِيُّ يُوجَدُ عِنْدِي.

Surely ye should say—Why should we persecute him? seeing, the root of the matter, is found in me.

٢٩ 29 خَافُوا عَلَى أَنْفُسِكُمْ مِنَ ٱلسَّيْفِ، لِأَنَّ ٱلْغَيْظَ مِنْ آثَامِ ٱلسَّيْفِ. لِكَيْ تَعْلَمُوا مَا هُوَ ٱلْقَضَاءُ».

Be ye afraid—on your part—of the face of the sword, because, wrath, [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, to the end ye may know the Almighty.