أَيُّوبَ 22

١ 1 فَأَجَابَ أَلِيفَازُ ٱلتَّيْمَانِيُّ وَقَالَ:

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,

٢ 2 «هَلْ يَنْفَعُ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ ٱللهَ؟ بَلْ يَنْفَعُ نَفْسَهُ ٱلْفَطِنُ!

May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?

٣ 3 هَلْ مِنْ مَسَرَّةٍ لِلْقَدِيرِ إِذَا تَبَرَّرْتَ، أَوْ مِنْ فَائِدَةٍ إِذَا قَوَّمْتَ طُرُقَكَ؟

Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?

٤ 4 هَلْ عَلَى تَقْوَاكَ يُوَبِّخُكَ، أَوْ يَدْخُلُ مَعَكَ فِي ٱلْمُحَاكَمَةِ؟

Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?

٥ 5 أَلَيْسَ شَرُّكَ عَظِيمًا، وَآثَامُكَ لَا نِهَايَةَ لَهَا؟

Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?

٦ 6 لِأَنَّكَ ٱرْتَهَنْتَ أَخَاكَ بِلَا سَبَبٍ، وَسَلَبْتَ ثِيَابَ ٱلْعُرَاةِ.

For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.

٧ 7 مَاءً لَمْ تَسْقِ ٱلْعَطْشَانَ، وَعَنِ ٱلْجَوْعَانِ مَنَعْتَ خُبْزًا.

To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

٨ 8 أَمَّا صَاحِبُ ٱلْقُوَّةِ فَلَهُ ٱلْأَرْضُ، وَٱلْمُتَرَفِّعُ ٱلْوَجْهِ سَاكِنٌ فِيهَا.

But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it.

٩ 9 ٱلْأَرَامِلَ أَرْسَلْتَ خَالِيَاتٍ، وَذِرَاعُ ٱلْيَتَامَى ٱنْسَحَقَتْ.

Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken.

١٠ 10 لِأَجْلِ ذَلِكَ حَوَالَيْكَ فِخَاخٌ، وَيُرِيعُكَ رُعْبٌ بَغْتَةً

Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shall suddenly trouble thee:

١١ 11 أَوْ ظُلْمَةٌ فَلَا تَرَى، وَفَيْضُ ٱلْمِيَاهِ يُغَطِّيكَ.

Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.

١٢ 12 «هُوَذَا ٱللهُ فِي عُلُوِّ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ. وَٱنْظُرْ رَأْسَ ٱلْكَوَاكِبِ مَا أَعْلَاهُ!

Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.

١٣ 13 فَقُلْتَ: كَيْفَ يَعْلَمُ ٱللهُ؟ هَلْ مِنْ وَرَاءِ ٱلضَّبَابِ يَقْضِي؟

But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?

١٤ 14 ٱلسَّحَابُ سِتْرٌ لَهُ فَلَا يُرَى، وَعَلَى دَائِرَةِ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ يَتَمَشَّى.

The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.

١٥ 15 هَلْ تَحْفَظُ طَرِيقَ ٱلْقِدَمِ ٱلَّذِي دَاسَهُ رِجَالُ ٱلْإِثْمِ،

Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?

١٦ 16 ٱلَّذِينَ قُبِضَ عَلَيْهِمْ قَبْلَ ٱلْوَقْتِ؟ ٱلْغَمْرُ ٱنْصَبَّ عَلَى أَسَاسِهِمِ.

Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:

١٧ 17 ٱلْقَائِلِينَ لِلهِ: ٱبْعُدْ عَنَّا. وَمَاذَا يَفْعَلُ ٱلْقَدِيرُ لَهُمْ؟

Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, and asked what the Almightie could do for them.

١٨ 18 وَهُوَ قَدْ مَلَأَ بُيُوتَهُمْ خَيْرًا. لِتَبْعُدْ عَنِّي مَشُورَةُ ٱلْأَشْرَارِ.

Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.

١٩ 19 ٱلْأَبْرَارُ يَنْظُرُونَ وَيَفْرَحُونَ، وَٱلْبَرِيءُ يَسْتَهْزِئُ بِهِمْ قَائِلِينَ:

The righteous shall see them, and shall reioyce, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorne.

٢٠ 20 أَلَمْ يُبَدْ مُقَاوِمُونَا، وَبَقِيَّتُهُمْ قَدْ أَكَلَتْهَا ٱلنَّارُ؟

Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.

٢١ 21 «تَعَرَّفْ بِهِ وَٱسْلَمْ. بِذَلِكَ يَأْتِيكَ خَيْرٌ.

Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.

٢٢ 22 ٱقْبَلِ ٱلشَّرِيعَةَ مِنْ فِيهِ، وَضَعْ كَلَامَهُ فِي قَلْبِكَ.

Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.

٢٣ 23 إِنْ رَجَعْتَ إِلَى ٱلْقَدِيرِ تُبْنَى. إِنْ أَبْعَدْتَ ظُلْمًا مِنْ خَيْمَتِكَ،

If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.

٢٤ 24 وَأَلْقَيْتَ ٱلتِّبْرَ عَلَى ٱلتُّرَابِ وَذَهَبَ أُوفِيرَ بَيْنَ حَصَا ٱلْأَوْدِيَةِ.

Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.

٢٥ 25 يَكُونُ ٱلْقَدِيرُ تِبْرَكَ وَفِضَّةَ أَتْعَابٍ لَكَ،

Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.

٢٦ 26 لِأَنَّكَ حِينَئِذٍ تَتَلَذَّذُ بِٱلْقَدِيرِ وَتَرْفَعُ إِلَى ٱللهِ وَجْهَكَ.

And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.

٢٧ 27 تُصَلِّي لَهُ فَيَسْتَمِعُ لَكَ، وَنُذُورُكَ تُوفِيهَا.

Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt render thy vowes.

٢٨ 28 وَتَجْزِمُ أَمْرًا فَيُثَبَّتُ لَكَ، وَعَلَى طُرُقِكَ يُضِيءُ نُورٌ.

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.

٢٩ 29 إِذَا وُضِعُوا تَقُولُ: رَفْعٌ. وَيُخَلِّصُ ٱلْمُنْخَفِضَ ٱلْعَيْنَيْنِ.

When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.

٣٠ 30 يُنَجِّي غَيْرَ ٱلْبَرِيءِ وَيُنْجَى بِطَهَارَةِ يَدَيْكَ».

The innocent shall deliuer the yland, and it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.