< أَيُّوبَ 23 >

فَأَجَابَ أَيُّوبُ وَقَالَ: ١ 1
Then answered Job, and said,
«ٱلْيَوْمَ أَيْضًا شَكْوَايَ تَمَرُّدٌ. ضَرْبَتِي أَثْقَلُ مِنْ تَنَهُّدِي. ٢ 2
Even now is my complaint bitter: my suffering is heavier than my groans.
مَنْ يُعْطِينِي أَنْ أَجِدَهُ، فَآتِيَ إِلَى كُرْسِيِّهِ، ٣ 3
Oh who would grant that I knew where I might find him! that I might attain to his Judgment throne!
أُحْسِنُ ٱلدَّعْوَى أَمَامَهُ، وَأَمْلَأُ فَمِي حُجَجًا، ٤ 4
I would put in order before him my cause, and my mouth would I fill with arguments.
فَأَعْرِفُ ٱلْأَقْوَالَ ٱلَّتِي بِهَا يُجِيبُنِي، وَأَفْهَمُ مَا يَقُولُهُ لِي؟ ٥ 5
I should know the words which he might answer me, and understand what he might say unto me.
أَبِكَثْرَةِ قُوَّةٍ يُخَاصِمُنِي؟ كَّلَّا! وَلَكِنَّهُ كَانَ يَنْتَبِهُ إِلَيَّ. ٦ 6
Would he with his power contend against me? he would truly not lay such doings to my charge.
هُنَالِكَ كَانَ يُحَاجُّهُ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمُ، وَكُنْتُ أَنْجُو إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ مِنْ قَاضِيَّ. ٧ 7
There would an upright one argue with him; and I should be allowed to escape for ever by my judge.
هَأَنَذَا أَذْهَبُ شَرْقًا فَلَيْسَ هُوَ هُنَاكَ، وَغَرْبًا فَلَا أَشْعُرُ بِهِ. ٨ 8
But, lo, I go eastward—and he is not there; and to the west— and I cannot perceive him;
شِمَالًا حَيْثُ عَمَلُهُ فَلَا أَنْظُرُهُ. يَتَعَطَّفُ ٱلْجَنُوبَ فَلَا أَرَاهُ. ٩ 9
When he doth great things at the north, I behold him not; he hideth himself in the south—and I see him not.
«لِأَنَّهُ يَعْرِفُ طَرِيقِي. إِذَا جَرَّبَنِي أَخْرُجُ كَٱلذَّهَبِ. ١٠ 10
But he knoweth the way that I take: were he to probe me, I should come forth as gold.
بِخَطَوَاتِهِ ٱسْتَمْسَكَتْ رِجْلِي. حَفِظْتُ طَرِيقَهُ وَلَمْ أَحِدْ. ١١ 11
On his steps my foot hath held fast: his way have I kept, and swerved not.
مِنْ وَصِيَّةِ شَفَتَيْهِ لَمْ أَبْرَحْ. أَكْثَرَ مِنْ فَرِيضَتِي ذَخَرْتُ كَلَامَ فِيهِ. ١٢ 12
From the commandment of his lips have I also not moved away: as a fixed statute for me have I treasured up the sayings of his mouth.
أَمَّا هُوَ فَوَحْدَهُ، فَمَنْ يَرُدُّهُ؟ وَنَفْسُهُ تَشْتَهِي فَيَفْعَلُ. ١٣ 13
But he is unchangeably one, and who can turn him? And what his will desireth, even that he doth.
لِأَنَّهُ يُتَمِّمُ ٱلْمَفْرُوضَ عَلَيَّ، وَكَثِيرٌ مِثْلُ هَذِهِ عِنْدَهُ. ١٤ 14
For he will bring to completion what hath been destined for me: and like these hath he many other things with him.
مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ أَرْتَاعُ قُدَّامَهُ. أَتَأَمَّلُ فَأَرْتَعِبُ مِنْهُ. ١٥ 15
Therefore am I terrified at his presence: I will reflect, and be in dread of him.
لِأَنَّ ٱللهَ قَدْ أَضْعَفَ قَلْبِي، وَٱلْقَدِيرَ رَوَّعَنِي. ١٦ 16
Still God hath made timid my heart, and the Almighty hath terrified me;
لِأَنِّي لَمْ أُقْطَعْ قَبْلَ ٱلظَّلَامِ، وَمِنْ وَجْهِي لَمْ يُغَطِّ ٱلدُّجَى. ١٧ 17
Because I was not destroyed before this darkness, and because he hath not hidden from my face [this] gloom.

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