< أَيُّوبَ 31 >
«عَهْدًا قَطَعْتُ لِعَيْنَيَّ، فَكَيْفَ أَتَطَلَّعُ فِي عَذْرَاءَ؟ | ١ 1 |
I MADE a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?
وَمَا هِيَ قِسْمَةُ ٱللهِ مِنْ فَوْقُ، وَنَصِيبُ ٱلْقَدِيرِ مِنَ ٱلْأَعَالِي؟ | ٢ 2 |
For what [is] the portion of God from above, and the heritage of the Almighty from on high?
أَلَيْسَ ٱلْبَوَارُ لِعَامِلِ ٱلشَّرِّ، وَٱلنُّكْرُ لِفَاعِلِي ٱلْإِثْمِ؟ | ٣ 3 |
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
أَلَيْسَ هُوَ يَنْظُرُ طُرُقِي، وَيُحْصِي جَمِيعَ خَطَوَاتِي؟ | ٤ 4 |
Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?
إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ سَلَكْتُ مَعَ ٱلْكَذِبِ، أَوْ أَسْرَعَتْ رِجْلِي إِلَى ٱلْغِشِّ، | ٥ 5 |
If I have walked with vanity, and my foot hath hasted to deceit;
لِيَزِنِّي فِي مِيزَانِ ٱلْحَقِّ، فَيَعْرِفَ ٱللهُ كَمَالِي. | ٦ 6 |
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity; )
إِنْ حَادَتْ خَطَوَاتِي عَنِ ٱلطَّرِيقِ، وَذَهَبَ قَلْبِي وَرَاءَ عَيْنَيَّ، أَوْ لَصِقَ عَيْبٌ بِكَفِّي، | ٧ 7 |
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any spot hath cleaved to mine hands:
أَزْرَعْ وَغَيْرِي يَأْكُلْ، وَفُرُوعِي تُسْتَأْصَلْ. | ٨ 8 |
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
«إِنْ غَوِيَ قَلْبِي عَلَى ٱمْرَأَةٍ، أَوْ كَمَنْتُ عَلَى بَابِ قَرِيبِي، | ٩ 9 |
If mine heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door:
فَلْتَطْحَنِ ٱمْرَأَتِي لِآخَرَ، وَلْيَنْحَنِ عَلَيْهَا آخَرُونَ. | ١٠ 10 |
Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
لِأَنَّ هَذِهِ رَذِيلَةٌ، وَهِيَ إِثْمٌ يُعْرَضُ لِلْقُضَاةِ. | ١١ 11 |
For that were an heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
لِأَنَّهَا نَارٌ تَأْكُلُ حَتَّى إِلَى ٱلْهَلَاكِ، وَتَسْتَأْصِلُ كُلَّ مَحْصُولِي. | ١٢ 12 |
For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
«إِنْ كُنْتُ رَفَضْتُ حَقَّ عَبْدِي وَأَمَتِي فِي دَعْوَاهُمَا عَلَيَّ، | ١٣ 13 |
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me:
فَمَاذَا كُنْتُ أَصْنَعُ حِينَ يَقُومُ ٱللهُ؟ وَإِذَا ٱفْتَقَدَ، فَبِمَاذَا أُجِيبُهُ؟ | ١٤ 14 |
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
أَوَلَيْسَ صَانِعِي فِي ٱلْبَطْنِ صَانِعَهُ، وَقَدْ صَوَّرَنَا وَاحِدٌ فِي ٱلرَّحِمِ؟ | ١٥ 15 |
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
إِنْ كُنْتُ مَنَعْتُ ٱلْمَسَاكِينَ عَنْ مُرَادِهِمْ، أَوْ أَفْنَيْتُ عَيْنَيِ ٱلْأَرْمَلَةِ، | ١٦ 16 |
If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
أَوْ أَكَلْتُ لُقْمَتِي وَحْدِي فَمَا أَكَلَ مِنْهَا ٱلْيَتِيمُ. | ١٧ 17 |
Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
بَلْ مُنْذُ صِبَايَ كَبِرَ عِنْدِي كَأَبٍ، وَمِنْ بَطْنِ أُمِّي هَدَيْتُهَا. | ١٨ 18 |
(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother’s womb; )
إِنْ كُنْتُ رَأَيْتُ هَالِكًا لِعَدَمِ ٱللِّبْسِ أَوْ فَقِيرًا بِلَا كِسْوَةٍ، | ١٩ 19 |
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
إِنْ لَمْ تُبَارِكْنِي حَقَوَاهُ وَقَدِ ٱسْتَدْفَأَ بِجَزَّةِ غَنَمِي. | ٢٠ 20 |
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ هَزَزْتُ يَدِي عَلَى ٱلْيَتِيمِ لَمَّا رَأَيْتُ عَوْنِي فِي ٱلْبَابِ، | ٢١ 21 |
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate:
فَلْتَسْقُطْ عَضُدِي مِنْ كَتِفِي، وَلْتَنْكَسِرْ ذِرَاعِي مِنْ قَصَبَتِهَا، | ٢٢ 22 |
Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
لِأَنَّ ٱلْبَوَارَ مِنَ ٱللهِ رُعْبٌ عَلَيَّ، وَمِنْ جَلَالِهِ لَمْ أَسْتَطِعْ. | ٢٣ 23 |
For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I could do nothing.
«إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ جَعَلْتُ ٱلذَّهَبَ عَمْدَتِي، أَوْ قُلْتُ لِلْإِبْرِيزِ: أَنْتَ مُتَّكَلِي. | ٢٤ 24 |
If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence;
إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ فَرِحْتُ إِذْ كَثُرَتْ ثَرْوَتِي وَلِأَنَّ يَدِي وَجَدَتْ كَثِيرًا. | ٢٥ 25 |
If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ نَظَرْتُ إِلَى ٱلنُّورِ حِينَ ضَاءَ، أَوْ إِلَى ٱلْقَمَرِ يَسِيرُ بِٱلْبَهَاءِ، | ٢٦ 26 |
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
وَغَوِيَ قَلْبِي سِرًّا، وَلَثَمَ يَدِي فَمِي، | ٢٧ 27 |
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand:
فَهَذَا أَيْضًا إِثْمٌ يُعْرَضُ لِلْقُضَاةِ، لِأَنِّي أَكُونُ قَدْ جَحَدْتُ ٱللهَ مِنْ فَوْقُ. | ٢٨ 28 |
This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: for I should have lied to God that is above.
«إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ فَرِحْتُ بِبَلِيَّةِ مُبْغِضِي أَوْ شَمِتُّ حِينَ أَصَابَهُ سُوءٌ. | ٢٩ 29 |
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;
بَلْ لَمْ أَدَعْ حَنَكِي يُخْطِئُ فِي طَلَبِ نَفْسِهِ بِلَعْنَةٍ. | ٣٠ 30 |
(Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse; )
إِنْ كَانَ أَهْلُ خَيْمَتِي لَمْ يَقُولُوا: مَنْ يَأْتِي بِأَحَدٍ لَمْ يَشْبَعْ مِنْ طَعَامِهِ؟ | ٣١ 31 |
If the men of my tent said not, Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his flesh?
غَرِيبٌ لَمْ يَبِتْ فِي ٱلْخَارِجِ. فَتَحْتُ لِلْمُسَافِرِ أَبْوَابِي. | ٣٢ 32 |
The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the traveller;
إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ كَتَمْتُ كَٱلنَّاسِ ذَنْبِي لِإِخْفَاءِ إِثْمِي فِي حِضْنِي. | ٣٣ 33 |
If like Adam I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom;
إِذْ رَهِبْتُ جُمْهُورًا غَفِيرًا، وَرَوَّعَتْنِي إِهَانَةُ ٱلْعَشَائِرِ، فَكَفَفْتُ وَلَمْ أَخْرُجْ مِنَ ٱلْبَابِ. | ٣٤ 34 |
Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door—
مَنْ لِي بِمَنْ يَسْمَعُنِي؟ هُوَذَا إِمْضَائِي. لِيُجِبْنِي ٱلْقَدِيرُ. وَمَنْ لِي بِشَكْوَى كَتَبَهَا خَصْمِي، | ٣٥ 35 |
Oh that I had one to hear me! (lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me; ) and [that I had] the indictment which mine adversary hath written!
فَكُنْتُ أَحْمِلُهَا عَلَى كَتِفِي. كُنْتُ أُعْصِبُهَا تَاجًا لِي. | ٣٦ 36 |
Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown.
كُنْتُ أُخْبِرُهُ بِعَدَدِ خَطَوَاتِي وَأَدْنُو مِنْهُ كَشَرِيفٍ. | ٣٧ 37 |
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
إِنْ كَانَتْ أَرْضِي قَدْ صَرَخَتْ عَلَيَّ وَتَبَاكَتْ أَتْلَامُهَا جَمِيعًا. | ٣٨ 38 |
If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together;
إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ أَكَلْتُ غَلَّتَهَا بِلَا فِضَّةٍ، أَوْ أَطْفَأْتُ أَنْفُسَ أَصْحَابِهَا، | ٣٩ 39 |
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
فَعِوَضَ ٱلْحِنْطَةِ لِيَنْبُتْ شَوْكٌ، وَبَدَلَ ٱلشَّعِيرِ زَوَانٌ». تَمَّتْ أَقْوَالُ أَيُّوبَ. | ٤٠ 40 |
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.