أَيُّوبَ 40

١ 1 فَأَجَابَ ٱلرَّبُّ أَيُّوبَ فَقَالَ:

And the Lord addide, and spak to Joob,

٢ 2 «هَلْ يُخَاصِمُ ٱلْقَدِيرَ مُوَبِّخُهُ، أَمِ ٱلْمُحَاجُّ ٱللهَ يُجَاوِبُهُ؟».

Whether he, that stryueth with God, schal haue rest so liytli? Sotheli he, that repreueth God, owith for to answere to hym.

٣ 3 فَأَجَابَ أَيُّوبُ ٱلرَّبَّ وَقَالَ:

Forsothe Joob answeride to the Lord,

٤ 4 «هَا أَنَا حَقِيرٌ، فَمَاذَا أُجَاوِبُكَ؟ وَضَعْتُ يَدِي عَلَى فَمِي.

and seide, What may Y answere, which haue spoke liytli? Y schal putte myn hond on my mouth.

٥ 5 مَرَّةً تَكَلَّمْتُ فَلَا أُجِيبُ، وَمَرَّتَيْنِ فَلَا أَزِيدُ».

Y spak o thing, which thing Y wold, that Y hadde not seid; and Y spak anothir thing, to which Y schal no more adde.

٦ 6 فَأَجَابَ ٱلرَّبُّ أَيُّوبَ مِنَ ٱلْعَاصِفَةِ فَقَالَ:

Forsothe the Lord answeride to Joob fro the whirlewynd,

٧ 7 «ٱلْآنَ شُدَّ حَقْوَيْكَ كَرَجُلٍ. أَسْأَلُكَ فَتُعْلِمُنِي.

and seide, Girde thou as a man thi leendis, and Y schal axe thee, and schewe thou to me.

٨ 8 لَعَلَّكَ تُنَاقِضُ حُكْمِي، تَسْتَذْنِبُنِي لِكَيْ تَتَبَرَّرَ أَنْتَ؟

Whether thou schalt make voide my doom, and schalt condempne me, that thou be maad iust?

٩ 9 هَلْ لَكَ ذِرَاعٌ كَمَا لِلهِ، وَبِصَوْتٍ مِثْلِ صَوْتِهِ تُرْعِدُ؟

And if thou hast an arm, as God hath, and if thou thundrist with lijk vois, `take thou fairnesse aboute thee,

١٠ 10 تَزَيَّنِ ٱلْآنَ بِٱلْجَلَالِ وَٱلْعِزِّ، وَٱلْبَسِ ٱلْمَجْدَ وَٱلْبَهَاءَ.

and be thou reisid an hiy, and be thou gloriouse, and be thou clothid `in faire clothis.

١١ 11 فَرِّقْ فَيْضَ غَضَبِكَ، وَٱنْظُرْ كُلَّ مُتَعَظِّمٍ وَٱخْفِضْهُ.

Distrie thou proude men in thi woodnesse, and biholde thou, and make lowe ech bostere.

١٢ 12 اُنْظُرْ إِلَى كُلِّ مُتَعَظِّمٍ وَذَلِّلْهُ، وَدُسِ ٱلْأَشْرَارَ فِي مَكَانِهِمِ.

Biholde thou alle proude men, and schende thou hem; and al to-breke thou wickid men in her place.

١٣ 13 ٱطْمِرْهُمْ فِي ٱلتُّرَابِ مَعًا، وَٱحْبِسْ وُجُوهَهُمْ فِي ٱلظَّلَامِ.

Hide thou hem in dust togidere, and drenche doun her faces in to a diche.

١٤ 14 فَأَنَا أَيْضًا أَحْمَدُكَ لِأَنَّ يَمِينَكَ تُخَلِّصُكَ.

And Y schal knowleche, that thi riyt hond may saue thee.

١٥ 15 «هُوَذَا بَهِيمُوثُ ٱلَّذِي صَنَعْتُهُ مَعَكَ يَأْكُلُ ٱلْعُشْبَ مِثْلَ ٱلْبَقَرِ.

Lo! behemot, whom Y made with thee, schal as an oxe ete hey.

١٦ 16 هَا هِيَ قُوَّتُهُ فِي مَتْنَيْهِ، وَشِدَّتُهُ فِي عَضَلِ بَطْنِهِ.

His strengthe is in hise leendis, and his vertu is in the nawle of his wombe.

١٧ 17 يَخْفِضُ ذَنَبَهُ كَأَرْزَةٍ. عُرُوقُ فَخِذَيْهِ مَضْفُورَةٌ.

He streyneth his tail as a cedre; the senewis of his `stones of gendrure ben foldid togidere.

١٨ 18 عِظَامُهُ أَنَابِيبُ نُحَاسٍ، جِرْمُهَا حَدِيدٌ مَمْطُولٌ.

Hise boonys ben as the pipis of bras; the gristil of hym is as platis of yrun.

١٩ 19 هُوَ أَوَّلُ أَعْمَالِ ٱللهِ. ٱلَّذِي صَنَعَهُ أَعْطَاهُ سَيْفَهُ.

He is the bigynnyng of the weies of God; he, that made hym, schal sette his swerd to hym.

٢٠ 20 لِأَنَّ ٱلْجِبَالَ تُخْرِجُ لَهُ مَرْعًى، وَجَمِيعَ وُحُوشِ ٱلْبَرِّ تَلْعَبُ هُنَاكَ.

Hillis beren eerbis to this behemot; alle the beestis of the feeld pleien there.

٢١ 21 تَحْتَ ٱلسِّدْرَاتِ يَضْطَجِعُ فِي سِتْرِ ٱلْقَصَبِ وَٱلْغَمِقَةِ.

He slepith vndur schadewe, in the pryuete of rehed, in moiste places.

٢٢ 22 تُظَلِّلُهُ ٱلسِّدْرَاتُ بِظِلِّهَا. يُحِيطُ بِهِ صَفْصَافُ ٱلسَّوَاقِي.

Schadewis hilen his schadewe; the salewis of the ryuer cumpassen hym.

٢٣ 23 هُوَذَا ٱلنَّهْرُ يَفِيضُ فَلَا يَفِرُّ هُوَ. يَطْمَئِنُّ وَلَوِ ٱنْدَفَقَ ٱلْأُرْدُنُّ فِي فَمِهِ.

He schal soupe vp the flood, and he schal not wondre; he hath trist, that Jordan schal flowe in to his mouth.

٢٤ 24 هَلْ يُؤْخَذُ مِنْ أَمَامِهِ؟ هَلْ يُثْقَبُ أَنْفُهُ بِخِزَامَةٍ؟

He schal take hem bi `the iyen of hym, as bi an hook; and bi scharpe schaftis he schal perse hise nosethirlis.