أيُّوب 15
| فَقَالَ أَلِيفَازُ التَّيْمَانِيُّ: | ١ 1 |
Then answered Eliphaz the Themanite, and said,
| «أَلَعَلَّ الْحَكِيمَ يُجِيبُ عَنْ مَعْرِفَةٍ بَاطِلَةٍ وَيَنْفُخُ بَطْنَهُ بِرِيحٍ شَرْقِيَّةٍ، | ٢ 2 |
Should a wise man utter windy knowledge, and fill his inward parts with the east wind?
| فَيَحْتَجَّ بِكَلامٍ أَجْوَفَ وَبِأَقْوَالٍ خَرْقَاءَ؟ | ٣ 3 |
Should he reason with a speech which availeth nothing? and with words in which there is no profit?
| أَمَّا أَنْتَ فَإِنَّكَ تَطْرَحُ جَانِباً مَخَافَةَ اللهِ وَتَنْقُضُ عِبَادَتَهُ. | ٤ 4 |
Yea, thou truly makest void the fear [of God], and diminishest devotion before God.
| كَلامُكَ يُقِرُّ بِإِثْمِكَ، وَأَنْتَ تُؤْثِرُ أُسْلُوبَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ. | ٥ 5 |
For thy iniquity teacheth thy mouth, so that thou choosest the language of the crafty.
| فَمُكَ يَدِينُكَ، لَا أَنَا، شَفَتَاكَ تَشْهَدَانِ عَلَيْكَ. | ٦ 6 |
Thy own mouth must condemn thee, but not I: yea, thy own lips will testify against thee.
| أَلَعَلَّكَ وُلِدْتَ أَوَّلَ النَّاسِ، أَوْ كُوِّنْتَ قَبْلَ التِّلالِ؟ | ٧ 7 |
Wast thou born as the first man? or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
| هَلْ تَنَصَّتَّ فِي مَجْلِسِ اللهِ، فَقَصَرْتَ الْحِكْمَةَ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ؟ | ٨ 8 |
Hast thou listened to the secret counsel of God? and is wisdom therefore of little esteem with thee?
| أَيُّ شَيْءٍ تَعْرِفُهُ وَنَحْنُ نَجْهَلُهُ؟ وَأَيُّ شَيْءٍ تَفْهَمُهُ وَنَحْنُ لَا نَمْلِكُ إِدْرَاكَهُ؟ | ٩ 9 |
What knowest thou, that we do not know? what understandest thou, which is not with us?
| رُبَّ شَيْخٍ وَأَشْيَبَ بَيْنَنَا أَكْبَرَ سِنّاً مِنْ أَبِيكَ. | ١٠ 10 |
Both the grayheaded and the very aged are among us, — richer than thy father in days.
| أَيَسِيرَةٌ عَلَيْكَ تَعْزِيَاتُ اللهِ؟ حَتَّى هَذِهِ الْكَلِمَاتُ الَّتِي خُوطِبْتَ بِها بِرِفْقٍ؟ | ١١ 11 |
Are the divine consolations too little for thee? and the word that was so mild with thee?
| لِمَاذَا يَسْتَهْوِيكَ قَلْبُكَ وَتَتَوَهَّجُ عَيْنَاكَ، | ١٢ 12 |
Whither doth thy heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes gaze at?
| حَتَّى تَنْفُثَ غَضَبَكَ ضِدَّ اللهِ، وَيَصْدُرَ عَنْ فَمِكَ مِثْلُ هَذِهِ الأَقْوَالِ؟ | ١٣ 13 |
That thou shouldst turn against God thy spirit, and utter [such] words out of thy mouth?
| مَنْ هُوَ الإِنْسَانُ حَتَّى يَزْكُوَ أَوْ مَوْلُودُ الْمَرْأَةِ حَتَّى يَتَبَرَّرَ؟ | ١٤ 14 |
What is man, that he should be pure? and that he who is born of woman should be declared righteous?
| فَإِنْ كَانَ اللهُ لَا يَأْتَمِنُ قِدِّيسِيهِ، وَالسَّمَاوَاتُ غَيْرَ طَاهِرَةٍ لَدَيْهِ، | ١٥ 15 |
Behold, in his holy ones he putteth no trust; and the heavens are not pure in his eyes:
| فَكَمْ بِالأَحْرَى يَكُونُ الإِنْسَانُ الشَّارِبُ الإِثْمَ كَالْمَاءِ مَكْرُوهاً وَفَاسِداً! | ١٦ 16 |
How much more then the abominable and corrupt, the man who drinketh like water wrong-doing?
| دَعْنِي أُبَيِّنُ لَكَ، وَاسْمَعْ لِي لأُحَدِّثَكَ بِمَا رَأَيْتُهُ، | ١٧ 17 |
I will instruct thee, hear me; and what I have seen will I relate;
| وَبِمَا أَخْبَرَ بِهِ حُكَمَاءُ عَنْ آبَائِهِمْ وَلَمْ يَكْتُمُوهُ، | ١٨ 18 |
Which wise men have ever told, and have not concealed, as they obtained it from their fathers;
| الَّذِينَ لَهُمْ وَحْدَهُمْ وُهِبَتِ الأَرْضُ وَلَمْ يَدْخُلْ بَيْنَهُمْ غَرِيبٌ. | ١٩ 19 |
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and into whose midst no stranger ever entered.
| يَتَلَوَّى الشِّرِّيرُ أَلَماً كُلَّ أَيَّامِ حَيَاتِهِ، وَمَعْدُودَةٌ هِيَ سِنُو الْجَائِرِ. | ٢٠ 20 |
All his days is the wicked plagued with pain, and the number of years which are laid by for the tyrant.
| يَضِجُّ صَوْتٌ مُرْعِبٌ فِي أُذُنَيْهِ، وَفِي أَوَانِ السَّلامِ يُفَاجِئُهُ الْمُخَرِّبُ. | ٢١ 21 |
A sound of terrors is in his ears: during peace will the waster come over him.
| لَا يَأْمُلُ الرُّجُوعَ مِنَ الظُّلُمَاتِ، وَمَصِيرُهُ الْهَلاكُ بِالسَّيْفِ. | ٢٢ 22 |
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is looked for by the sword.
| يَهِيمُ بَحْثاً عَنْ لُقْمَةِ الْعَيْشِ، وَهُوَ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّ يَوْمَ الظُّلْمَةِ آتٍ وَشِيكاً. | ٢٣ 23 |
He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying, ] Where is it? he knoweth that there is ready at his hand the day of darkness.
| يُرْهِبُهُ الضِّيقُ وَالضَّنْكُ، وَيَطْغَيَانِ عَلَيْهِ كَمَلِكٍ مُتَأَهِّبٍ لِلْحَرْبِ. | ٢٤ 24 |
Distress and anguish terrify him: they assail him with might, as a king prepared for the battle.
| لأَنَّهُ هَزَّ قَبْضَتَهُ مُتَحَدِّياً اللهَ، وَعَلَى الْقَدِيرِ يَتَجَبَّرُ، | ٢٥ 25 |
Because he had stretched out against God his hand, and strengthened himself against the Almighty;
| وَأَغَارَ عَلَيْهِ بِعِنَادٍ مُتَصَلِّفٍ، بِمَجَانٍّ غَلِيظَةٍ مَتِينَةٍ. | ٢٦ 26 |
[And] he had run against him, with an [extended] neck, with the thick roundings of his bucklers;
| وَمَعَ أَنَّهُ كَسَا وَجْهَهُ سَمْناً، وَغَشَّى الشَّحْمُ كُلْيَتَيْهِ. | ٢٧ 27 |
Because he had covered his face with his fat, and had made thick folds of fat on his flanks;
| فَإِنَّهُ يُقِيمُ فِي مُدُنٍ خَرِبَةٍ وَبُيُوتٍ مَهْجُورَةٍ عَتِيدَةٍ أَنْ تُصْبِحَ رُكَاماً. | ٢٨ 28 |
And he dwelt in abandoned cities, in houses which none inhabited, which were destined to be ruinous heaps.
| يَفْقِدُ غِنَاهُ، وَتَتَبَخَّرُ ثَرْوَتُهُ، وَلا يَثْبُتُ لَهُ فِي الأَرْضِ مُقْتَنىً. | ٢٩ 29 |
[Yet] will he not remain rich, neither will his wealth endure, nor will he attain their perfection on earth.
| تَكْتَنِفُهُ دَائِماً الظُّلْمَةُ، وتُيَبِّسُ النَّارُ أَغْصَانَهُ، وَتُزِيلُهُ نَفْخَةٌ مِنْ فَمِ الرَّبِّ. | ٣٠ 30 |
He will never depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his shoots, and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth.
| لَا يَخْدَعَنَّ نَفْسَهُ بِاتِّكَالِهِ عَلَى السُّوءِ، لأَنَّ السُّوءَ يَكُونُ جَزَاءَهُ. | ٣١ 31 |
Let him that goeth astray not trust in vanity; for vanity will be what he obtaineth thereby.
| يَسْتَوْفِيهِ كَامِلاً قَبْلَ يَوْمِهِ، وَتَكُونُ (حَيَاتُهُ) كَسُعُفٍ يَابِسَةٍ. | ٣٢ 32 |
Even before his time will it be overfull, and his branches will not be green.
| وَكَكَرْمَةٍ تَسَاقَطَتْ عَنَاقِيدُ حِصْرِمِهَا، وَتَنَاثَرَ زَهْرُهَا كَالزَّيْتُونِ، | ٣٣ 33 |
He will shake off like the vine his unripe grapes, and cast off like the olive his blossoms.
| لأَنَّ جَمَاعَةَ الْفُجَّارِ عَقِيمُونَ، وَالنَّارُ تَلْتَهِمُ خِيَامَ الْمُرْتَشِينَ. | ٣٤ 34 |
For the assembly of hypocrites will remain desolate, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
| حَبِلُوا شَقَاوَةً وَأَنْجَبُوا إِثْماً، وَوَلَدَتْ بُطُونُهُمْ غِشّاً». | ٣٥ 35 |
They conceive trouble, and bring forth wrong-doing, and their body prepareth deceit.
