أَيُّوبَ 31

١ 1 «عَهْدًا قَطَعْتُ لِعَيْنَيَّ، فَكَيْفَ أَتَطَلَّعُ فِي عَذْرَاءَ؟

“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

٢ 2 وَمَا هِيَ قِسْمَةُ ٱللهِ مِنْ فَوْقُ، وَنَصِيبُ ٱلْقَدِيرِ مِنَ ٱلْأَعَالِي؟

For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

٣ 3 أَلَيْسَ ٱلْبَوَارُ لِعَامِلِ ٱلشَّرِّ، وَٱلنُّكْرُ لِفَاعِلِي ٱلْإِثْمِ؟

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

٤ 4 أَلَيْسَ هُوَ يَنْظُرُ طُرُقِي، وَيُحْصِي جَمِيعَ خَطَوَاتِي؟

Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

٥ 5 إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ سَلَكْتُ مَعَ ٱلْكَذِبِ، أَوْ أَسْرَعَتْ رِجْلِي إِلَى ٱلْغِشِّ،

“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

٦ 6 لِيَزِنِّي فِي مِيزَانِ ٱلْحَقِّ، فَيَعْرِفَ ٱللهُ كَمَالِي.

(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

٧ 7 إِنْ حَادَتْ خَطَوَاتِي عَنِ ٱلطَّرِيقِ، وَذَهَبَ قَلْبِي وَرَاءَ عَيْنَيَّ، أَوْ لَصِقَ عَيْبٌ بِكَفِّي،

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

٨ 8 أَزْرَعْ وَغَيْرِي يَأْكُلْ، وَفُرُوعِي تُسْتَأْصَلْ.

then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

٩ 9 «إِنْ غَوِيَ قَلْبِي عَلَى ٱمْرَأَةٍ، أَوْ كَمَنْتُ عَلَى بَابِ قَرِيبِي،

“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

١٠ 10 فَلْتَطْحَنِ ٱمْرَأَتِي لِآخَرَ، وَلْيَنْحَنِ عَلَيْهَا آخَرُونَ.

then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

١١ 11 لِأَنَّ هَذِهِ رَذِيلَةٌ، وَهِيَ إِثْمٌ يُعْرَضُ لِلْقُضَاةِ.

For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges,

١٢ 12 لِأَنَّهَا نَارٌ تَأْكُلُ حَتَّى إِلَى ٱلْهَلَاكِ، وَتَسْتَأْصِلُ كُلَّ مَحْصُولِي.

for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

١٣ 13 «إِنْ كُنْتُ رَفَضْتُ حَقَّ عَبْدِي وَأَمَتِي فِي دَعْوَاهُمَا عَلَيَّ،

“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

١٤ 14 فَمَاذَا كُنْتُ أَصْنَعُ حِينَ يَقُومُ ٱللهُ؟ وَإِذَا ٱفْتَقَدَ، فَبِمَاذَا أُجِيبُهُ؟

what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

١٥ 15 أَوَلَيْسَ صَانِعِي فِي ٱلْبَطْنِ صَانِعَهُ، وَقَدْ صَوَّرَنَا وَاحِدٌ فِي ٱلرَّحِمِ؟

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

١٦ 16 إِنْ كُنْتُ مَنَعْتُ ٱلْمَسَاكِينَ عَنْ مُرَادِهِمْ، أَوْ أَفْنَيْتُ عَيْنَيِ ٱلْأَرْمَلَةِ،

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

١٧ 17 أَوْ أَكَلْتُ لُقْمَتِي وَحْدِي فَمَا أَكَلَ مِنْهَا ٱلْيَتِيمُ.

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

١٨ 18 بَلْ مُنْذُ صِبَايَ كَبِرَ عِنْدِي كَأَبٍ، وَمِنْ بَطْنِ أُمِّي هَدَيْتُهَا.

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

١٩ 19 إِنْ كُنْتُ رَأَيْتُ هَالِكًا لِعَدَمِ ٱللِّبْسِ أَوْ فَقِيرًا بِلَا كِسْوَةٍ،

if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

٢٠ 20 إِنْ لَمْ تُبَارِكْنِي حَقَوَاهُ وَقَدِ ٱسْتَدْفَأَ بِجَزَّةِ غَنَمِي.

if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

٢١ 21 إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ هَزَزْتُ يَدِي عَلَى ٱلْيَتِيمِ لَمَّا رَأَيْتُ عَوْنِي فِي ٱلْبَابِ،

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

٢٢ 22 فَلْتَسْقُطْ عَضُدِي مِنْ كَتِفِي، وَلْتَنْكَسِرْ ذِرَاعِي مِنْ قَصَبَتِهَا،

then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

٢٣ 23 لِأَنَّ ٱلْبَوَارَ مِنَ ٱللهِ رُعْبٌ عَلَيَّ، وَمِنْ جَلَالِهِ لَمْ أَسْتَطِعْ.

For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

٢٤ 24 «إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ جَعَلْتُ ٱلذَّهَبَ عَمْدَتِي، أَوْ قُلْتُ لِلْإِبْرِيزِ: أَنْتَ مُتَّكَلِي.

“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

٢٥ 25 إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ فَرِحْتُ إِذْ كَثُرَتْ ثَرْوَتِي وَلِأَنَّ يَدِي وَجَدَتْ كَثِيرًا.

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

٢٦ 26 إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ نَظَرْتُ إِلَى ٱلنُّورِ حِينَ ضَاءَ، أَوْ إِلَى ٱلْقَمَرِ يَسِيرُ بِٱلْبَهَاءِ،

if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

٢٧ 27 وَغَوِيَ قَلْبِي سِرًّا، وَلَثَمَ يَدِي فَمِي،

and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth;

٢٨ 28 فَهَذَا أَيْضًا إِثْمٌ يُعْرَضُ لِلْقُضَاةِ، لِأَنِّي أَكُونُ قَدْ جَحَدْتُ ٱللهَ مِنْ فَوْقُ.

this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God who is above.

٢٩ 29 «إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ فَرِحْتُ بِبَلِيَّةِ مُبْغِضِي أَوْ شَمِتُّ حِينَ أَصَابَهُ سُوءٌ.

“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

٣٠ 30 بَلْ لَمْ أَدَعْ حَنَكِي يُخْطِئُ فِي طَلَبِ نَفْسِهِ بِلَعْنَةٍ.

(I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

٣١ 31 إِنْ كَانَ أَهْلُ خَيْمَتِي لَمْ يَقُولُوا: مَنْ يَأْتِي بِأَحَدٍ لَمْ يَشْبَعْ مِنْ طَعَامِهِ؟

if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

٣٢ 32 غَرِيبٌ لَمْ يَبِتْ فِي ٱلْخَارِجِ. فَتَحْتُ لِلْمُسَافِرِ أَبْوَابِي.

(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

٣٣ 33 إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ كَتَمْتُ كَٱلنَّاسِ ذَنْبِي لِإِخْفَاءِ إِثْمِي فِي حِضْنِي.

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

٣٤ 34 إِذْ رَهِبْتُ جُمْهُورًا غَفِيرًا، وَرَوَّعَتْنِي إِهَانَةُ ٱلْعَشَائِرِ، فَكَفَفْتُ وَلَمْ أَخْرُجْ مِنَ ٱلْبَابِ.

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

٣٥ 35 مَنْ لِي بِمَنْ يَسْمَعُنِي؟ هُوَذَا إِمْضَائِي. لِيُجِبْنِي ٱلْقَدِيرُ. وَمَنْ لِي بِشَكْوَى كَتَبَهَا خَصْمِي،

oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

٣٦ 36 فَكُنْتُ أَحْمِلُهَا عَلَى كَتِفِي. كُنْتُ أُعْصِبُهَا تَاجًا لِي.

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and I would bind it to me as a crown.

٣٧ 37 كُنْتُ أُخْبِرُهُ بِعَدَدِ خَطَوَاتِي وَأَدْنُو مِنْهُ كَشَرِيفٍ.

I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince.

٣٨ 38 إِنْ كَانَتْ أَرْضِي قَدْ صَرَخَتْ عَلَيَّ وَتَبَاكَتْ أَتْلَامُهَا جَمِيعًا.

If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

٣٩ 39 إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ أَكَلْتُ غَلَّتَهَا بِلَا فِضَّةٍ، أَوْ أَطْفَأْتُ أَنْفُسَ أَصْحَابِهَا،

if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

٤٠ 40 فَعِوَضَ ٱلْحِنْطَةِ لِيَنْبُتْ شَوْكٌ، وَبَدَلَ ٱلشَّعِيرِ زَوَانٌ». تَمَّتْ أَقْوَالُ أَيُّوبَ.

let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.