أَيُّوبَ 8

١ 1 فَأَجَابَ بِلْدَدُ ٱلشُّوحِيُّ وَقَالَ:

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

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

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

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

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

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

If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

٥ 5 فَإِنْ بَكَّرْتَ أَنْتَ إِلَى ٱللهِ وَتَضَرَّعْتَ إِلَى ٱلْقَدِيرِ،

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

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

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

٧ 7 وَإِنْ تَكُنْ أُولَاكَ صَغِيرَةً فَآخِرَتُكَ تَكْثُرُ جِدًّا.

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

٨ 8 «اِسْأَلِ ٱلْقُرُونَ ٱلْأُولَى وَتَأَكَّدْ مَبَاحِثَ آبَائِهِمْ،

“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

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

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

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

Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

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

“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

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

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

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

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

١٤ 14 فَيَنْقَطِعُ ٱعْتِمَادُهُ، وَمُتَّكَلُهُ بَيْتُ ٱلْعَنْكَبُوتِ!

whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.

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

He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.

١٦ 16 هُوَ رَطْبٌ تُجَاهَ ٱلشَّمْسِ وَعَلَى جَنَّتِهِ تَنْبُتُ خَرَاعِيبُهُ.

He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.

١٧ 17 وَأُصُولُهُ مُشْتَبِكَةٌ فِي ٱلرُّجْمَةِ، فَتَرَى مَحَلَّ ٱلْحِجَارَةِ.

His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.

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

If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’

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

Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.

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

“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

٢١ 21 عِنْدَمَا يَمْلَأُ فَاكَ ضَحِكًا، وَشَفَتَيْكَ هُتَافًا،

He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

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

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”