أيُّوب 13

١ 1 هَذَا جَمِيعُهُ شَهِدَتْهُ عَيْنَايَ وَسَمِعَتْهُ أُذُنَايَ وَفَهِمَتْهُ،

“Behold, my eye has seen all, My ear has heard, and it attends to it.

٢ 2 وَأَنَا أَعْرِفُ مَا تَعْرِفُونَهُ أَيْضاً، إِذْ لَسْتُ أَقَلَّ مِنْكُمْ فِطْنَةً.

According to your knowledge I have known—also I. I am not more fallen than you.

٣ 3 وَلَكِنِّي أُرِيدُ أَنْ أُخَاطِبَ الْقَدِيرَ، وَأَوَدُّ أَنْ أُحَاجَّ اللهَ.

Yet I speak for the Mighty One, And I delight to argue for God.

٤ 4 أَمَّا أَنْتُمْ فَمُنَافِقُونَ، وَكُلُّكُمْ أَطِبَّاءُ جَهَلَةٌ.

And yet, you [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nothing—all of you,

٥ 5 لَيْتَكُمْ تَلْتَزِمُونَ الصَّمْتَ، فَيُحْسَبَ لَكُمْ ذَلِكَ حِكْمَةً.

O that you would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.

٦ 6 أَنْصِتُوا الآنَ إِلَى حُجَّتِي وَأَصْغُوا إِلَى دَعْوَى شَفَتَيَّ

Please hear my argument, And attend to the pleadings of my lips,

٧ 7 أَلإِرْضَاءِ اللهِ تَنْطِقُونَ بِالْكَذِبِ، وَهَلْ مِنْ أَجْلِهِ تَتَفَوَّهُونَ بِالْبُهْتَانِ؟

Do you speak perverseness for God? And do you speak deceit for Him?

٨ 8 أَتُحَابُونَ اللهَ أَمْ تُدَافِعُونَ عَنْهُ؟

Do you accept His face, if you strive for God?

٩ 9 لَوْ فَحَصَكُمْ هَلْ يَجِدُ فِيكُمْ صَلاحاً؟ أَمْ تَخْدَعُونَهُ كَمَا تَخْدَعُونَ الْبَشَرَ؟

Is [it] good that He searches you, If, as one mocks at a man, you mock at Him?

١٠ 10 إِنَّهُ حَتْماً يُوَبِّخُكُمْ إِنْ حَابَيْتُمْ أَحَداً خُفْيَةً.

He surely reproves you, if you accept faces in secret.

١١ 11 أَوَلا يُرْهِبُكُمْ جَلالُهُ وَيَطْغَى عَلَيْكُمْ رُعْبُهُ؟

Does His excellence not terrify you? And His dread fall on you?

١٢ 12 أَقْوَالُكُمْ أَمْثَالُ رَمَادٍ، وَحُصُونُكُمْ حُصُونٌ مِنْ طِينٍ.

Your remembrances [are] allegories of ashes, For high places of clay [are] your heights.

١٣ 13 اسْكُتُوا عَنِّي فَأَتَكَلَّمَ، وَلْيَحُلَّ بِي مَا يَحُلُّ!

Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me what will.

١٤ 14 لِمَاذَا أَنْهَشُ لَحْمِي بِأَسْنَانِي وَأَضَعُ نَفْسِي فِي كَفِّي؟

Why do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?

١٥ 15 فَهَا هُوَ حَتْماً يَقْضِي عَلَيَّ وَلا أَمَلَ لِي. وَمَعَ ذَلِكَ فَإِنِّي أَبْسُطُ حُجَّتِي لأُزَكِّيَ طَرِيقِي أَمَامَهُ.

Behold, He slays me—I do not wait! Only, I argue my ways to His face.

١٦ 16 لأَنَّ هَذَا سَبِيلُ خَلاصِي، إِذْ لَا يَمْثُلُ الْفَاجِرُ فِي حَضْرَتِهِ.

Also—He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane do not come before Him.

١٧ 17 أَرْهِفُوا السَّمْعَ لأَقْوَالِي، وَلْتَحْتَفِظْ مَسَامِعُكُمْ بِكَلِمَاتِي،

Hear my word diligently, And my declaration with your ears.

١٨ 18 فَهَا أَنَا قَدْ أَحْسَنْتُ إِعْدَادَ الدَّعْوَى، وَلابُدَّ أَنْ أَتَبَرَّرَ.

Now behold, I have set the cause in order, I have known that I am righteous.

١٩ 19 مَنِ الَّذِي يُحَاجُّنِي؟ عِنْدَئِذٍ أَصْمُتُ وَأَمُوتُ!

Who [is] he that strives with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.

٢٠ 20 أَمْرَيْنِ أَطْلُبُ إِلَيْكَ أَنْ لَا تَفْعَلَهُمَا بِي، حَتَّى لَا أَخْتَفِيَ مِنْ حَضْرَتِكَ:

Only two things, O God, do with me, Then I am not hidden from Your face:

٢١ 21 ارْفَعْ يَدَيْكَ عَنِّي وَلا تَدَعْ هَيْبَتَكَ تُفْزِعُنِي،

Put Your hand far off from me, And do not let Your terror terrify me.

٢٢ 22 ثُمَّ ادْعُ فَأُلَبِّيَ، أَوْدَعْنِي أَتَكَلَّمُ وَأَنْتَ تُجِيبُنِي.

And You call, and I answer, Or—I speak, and You answer me.

٢٣ 23 كَمْ هِيَ آثَامِي وَخَطَايَايَ؟ أَطْلِعْنِي عَلَى ذَنْبِي وَمَعْصِيَتِي.

How many iniquities and sins do I have? Let me know my transgression and my sin.

٢٤ 24 لِمَاذَا تَحْجُبُ وَجْهَكَ وَتُعَامِلُنِي مِثْلَ عَدُوٍّ لَكَ؟

Why do You hide Your face? And reckon me for an enemy to You?

٢٥ 25 أَتُفْزِعُ وَرَقَةً مُتَطَايِرَةً وَتُطَارِدُ قَشّاً يَابِساً؟

Do You terrify a leaf driven away? And do You pursue the dry stubble?

٢٦ 26 فَأَنْتَ كَتَبْتَ عَلَيَّ أُمُوراً مُرَّةً، وَأَوْرَثْتَنِي آثَامَ صِبَايَ.

For You write bitter things against me, And cause me to possess iniquities of my youth,

٢٧ 27 أَدْخَلْتَ رِجْلَيَّ فِي الْمِقْطَرَةِ، وَرَاقَبْتَ جَمِيعَ سُبُلِي، إِذْ خَطَّطْتَ عَلامَاتٍ عَلَى بَاطِنِ قَدَمَيَّ،

And you put my feet in the stocks, And observe all my paths—You set a print on the roots of my feet,

٢٨ 28 فَأَنَا كَشَجَرَةٍ نَخَرَهَا السُّوسُ وَكَثَوْبٍ أَكَلَهُ الْعُثُّ.

And he, as a rotten thing, wears away, A moth has consumed him as a garment.”