أيُّوب 18

١ 1 فَقَالَ بِلْدَدُ الشُّوحِيُّ:

Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

٢ 2 «مَتَى تَكُفُّ عَنْ تَرْدِيدِ هَذِهِ الْكَلِمَاتِ؟ تَعَقَّلْ ثُمَّ نَتَكَلَّمُ.

How long wilt thou continue? forbear, that we also may speak.

٣ 3 لِمَاذَا تَعْتَبِرُنَا كَالْبَهِيمَةِ وَحَمْقَى فِي عَيْنَيْكَ؟

For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?

٤ 4 يَا مَنْ تُمَزِّقُ نَفْسَكَ إِرْباً غَيْظاً، هَلْ تُهْجَرُ الأَرْضُ مِنْ أَجْلِكَ أَمْ تَتَزَحْزَحُ الصَّخْرَةُ مِنْ مَوْضِعِهَا؟

Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would [the earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

٥ 5 أَجَلْ! إِنَّ نُورَ الأَشْرَارِ يَنْطَفِئُ وَلَهِيبَ نَارِهِمْ لَا يُضِيءُ.

But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.

٦ 6 يَتَحَوَّلُ النُّورُ إِلَى ظُلْمَةٍ فِي خَيْمَتِهِ، وَيَنْطَفِئُ سِرَاجُهُ عَلَيْهِ.

His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

٧ 7 تَقْصُرُ خَطْوَاتُهُ الْقَوِيَّةُ وَتَصْرَعُهُ تَدْبِيرَاتُهُ،

Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].

٨ 8 لأَنَّ قَدَمَيْهِ تُوْقِعَانِهِ فِي الشَّرَكِ وَتَطْرَحَانِهِ فِي حُفْرَةٍ،

His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.

٩ 9 يَقْبِضُ الْفَخُّ عَلَى عَقِبَيْهِ وَالشَّرَكُ يَشُدُّ عَلَيْهِ،

And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.

١٠ 10 حِبَالَتُهُ مَطْمُورَةٌ فِي الطَّرِيقِ، وَالْمِصْيَدَةُ كَامِنَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِهِ،

His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.

١١ 11 تُرْعِبُهُ أَهْوَالٌ مِنْ حَوْلِهِ وَتُزَاحِمُهُ عِنْدَ رِجْلَيْهِ،

Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,

١٢ 12 قُوَّتُهُ يَلْتَهِمُهَا الْجُوعُ النَّهِمُ، وَالْكَوَارِثُ مُتَأَهِّبَةٌ تَتَرَصَّدُ كَبْوَتَهُ.

[vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.

١٣ 13 يَفْتَرِسُ الدَّاءُ جِلْدَهُ وَيَلْتَهِمُ الْمَرَضُ الأَكَّالُ أَعْضَاءَهُ.

Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.

١٤ 14 يُؤْخَذُ مِنْ خَيْمَتِهِ رُكْنِ اعْتِمَادِهِ، وَيُسَاقُ أَمَامَ مَلِكِ الأَهْوَالِ.

And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.

١٥ 15 يُقِيمُ فِي خَيْمَتِهِ غَرِيبٌ وَيُذَرُّ كِبْرِيتٌ عَلَى مَرْبِضِهِ.

It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

١٦ 16 تَجِفُّ أُصُولُهُ تَحْتَهُ، وَتَتَبَعْثَرُ فُرُوعُهُ مِنْ فَوْقِهِ.

His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.

١٧ 17 يَبِيدُ ذِكْرُهُ مِنَ الأَرْضِ، وَلا يَبْقَى لَهُ اسْمٌ فِيهَا.

Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.

١٨ 18 يُطْرَدُ مِنَ النُّورِ إِلَى الظُّلْمَةِ، وَيُنْفَى مِنَ الْمَسْكُونَةِ.

Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

١٩ 19 لَا يَكُونُ لَهُ نَسْلٌ، وَلا عَقِبٌ بَيْنَ شَعْبِهِ، وَلا حَيٌّ فِي أَمَاكِنِ سُكْنَاهُ.

He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

٢٠ 20 يَرْتَعِبُ مِنْ مَصِيرِهِ أَهْلُ الْغَرْبِ، وَيَسْتَوْلِي الْفَزَعُ عَلَى أَبْنَاءِ الشَّرْقِ.

But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.

٢١ 21 حَقّاً تِلْكَ هِيَ مَسَاكِنُ الأَشْرَارِ، وَهَذَا هُوَ مَقَامُ مَنْ لَا يَعْرِفُ اللهَ!»

These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.