أَيُّوبَ 8

١ 1 فَأَجَابَ بِلْدَدُ ٱلشُّوحِيُّ وَقَالَ:

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and saide,

٢ 2 «إِلَى مَتَى تَقُولُ هَذَا، وَتَكُونُ أَقْوَالُ فِيكَ رِيحًا شَدِيدَةً؟

Howe long wilt thou talke of these things? and howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie winde?

٣ 3 هَلِ ٱللهُ يُعَوِّجُ ٱلْقَضَاءَ، أَوِ ٱلْقَدِيرُ يَعْكِسُ ٱلْحَقَّ؟

Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?

٤ 4 إِذْ أَخْطَأَ إِلَيْهِ بَنُوكَ، دَفَعَهُمْ إِلَى يَدِ مَعْصِيَتِهِمْ.

If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their iniquitie,

٥ 5 فَإِنْ بَكَّرْتَ أَنْتَ إِلَى ٱللهِ وَتَضَرَّعْتَ إِلَى ٱلْقَدِيرِ،

Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,

٦ 6 إِنْ كُنْتَ أَنْتَ زَكِيًّا مُسْتَقِيمًا، فَإِنَّهُ ٱلْآنَ يَتَنَبَّهُ لَكَ وَيُسْلِمُ مَسْكَنَ بِرِّكَ.

If thou be pure and vpright, then surely hee will awake vp vnto thee, and he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous.

٧ 7 وَإِنْ تَكُنْ أُولَاكَ صَغِيرَةً فَآخِرَتُكَ تَكْثُرُ جِدًّا.

And though thy beginning be small, yet thy latter ende shall greatly encrease.

٨ 8 «اِسْأَلِ ٱلْقُرُونَ ٱلْأُولَى وَتَأَكَّدْ مَبَاحِثَ آبَائِهِمْ،

Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers.

٩ 9 لِأَنَّنَا نَحْنُ مِنْ أَمْسٍ وَلَا نَعْلَمُ، لِأَنَّ أَيَّامَنَا عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ ظِلٌّ.

(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)

١٠ 10 فَهَلَّا يُعْلِمُونَكَ؟ يَقُولُونَ لَكَ، وَمِنْ قُلُوبِهِمْ يُخْرِجُونَ أَقْوَالًا قَائِلِينَ:

Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart?

١١ 11 هَلْ يَنْمِي ٱلْبَرْدِيُّ فِي غَيْرِ ٱلْغَمَقَةِ، أَوْ تَنْبُتُ ٱلْحَلْفَاءُ بِلَا مَاءٍ؟

Can a rush grow without myre? or can ye grasse growe without water?

١٢ 12 وَهُوَ بَعْدُ فِي نَضَارَتِهِ لَمْ يُقْطَعْ، يَيْبَسُ قَبْلَ كُلِّ ٱلْعُشْبِ.

Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.

١٣ 13 هَكَذَا سُبُلُ كُلِّ ٱلنَّاسِينَ ٱللهَ، وَرَجَاءُ ٱلْفَاجِرِ يَخِيبُ،

So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.

١٤ 14 فَيَنْقَطِعُ ٱعْتِمَادُهُ، وَمُتَّكَلُهُ بَيْتُ ٱلْعَنْكَبُوتِ!

His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a spyder.

١٥ 15 يَسْتَنِدُ إِلَى بَيْتِهِ فَلَا يَثْبُتُ. يَتَمَسَّكُ بِهِ فَلَا يَقُومُ.

He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.

١٦ 16 هُوَ رَطْبٌ تُجَاهَ ٱلشَّمْسِ وَعَلَى جَنَّتِهِ تَنْبُتُ خَرَاعِيبُهُ.

The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.

١٧ 17 وَأُصُولُهُ مُشْتَبِكَةٌ فِي ٱلرُّجْمَةِ، فَتَرَى مَحَلَّ ٱلْحِجَارَةِ.

The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.

١٨ 18 إِنِ ٱقْتَلَعَهُ مِنْ مَكَانِهِ، يَجْحَدُهُ قَائِلًا: مَا رَأَيْتُكَ!

If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee,

١٩ 19 هَذَا هُوَ فَرَحُ طَرِيقِهِ، وَمِنَ ٱلتُّرَابِ يَنْبُتُ آخَرُ.

Beholde, it will reioyce by this meanes, that it may growe in another molde.

٢٠ 20 «هُوَذَا ٱللهُ لَا يَرْفُضُ ٱلْكَامِلَ، وَلَا يَأْخُذُ بِيَدِ فَاعِلِي ٱلشَّرِّ.

Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,

٢١ 21 عِنْدَمَا يَمْلَأُ فَاكَ ضَحِكًا، وَشَفَتَيْكَ هُتَافًا،

Till he haue filled thy mouth with laughter, and thy lippes with ioy.

٢٢ 22 يَلْبَسُ مُبْغِضُوكَ خِزْيًا، أَمَّا خَيْمَةُ ٱلْأَشْرَارِ فَلَا تَكُونُ».

They that hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remaine.