أيُّوب 29
| وَاسْتَطْرَدَ أَيُّوبُ فِي ضَرْبِ مَثَلِهِ: | ١ 1 |
Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
| «يَا لَيْتَنِي مَازِلْتُ كَمَا كُنْتُ فِي الشُّهُورِ الْغَابِرَةِ، فِي الأَيَّامِ الَّتِي حَفِظَنِي فِيهَا اللهُ، | ٢ 2 |
Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
| كَانَ مِصْبَاحُهُ يُضِيءُ فَوْقَ رَأْسِي، فَأَسْلُكُ عَبْرَ الظُّلْمَةِ فِي نُورِهِ. | ٣ 3 |
When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
| يَوْمَ كُنْتُ فِي رَيعَانِ قُوَّتِي وَرِضَى اللهِ مُخَيِّماً فَوْقَ بَيْتِي. | ٤ 4 |
As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
| وَالْقَدِيرُ مَا بَرِحَ مَعِي، وَأَوْلادِي مَازَالُوا حَوْلِي. | ٥ 5 |
When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
| حِينَ كُنْتُ أَغْسِلُ خَطْوَاتِي بِاللَّبَنِ، وَالصَّخْرُ يَفِيضُ لِي أَنْهَاراً مِنَ الزَّيْتِ. | ٦ 6 |
When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
| حِينَ كُنْتُ أَخْرُجُ إِلَى بَوَّابَةِ الْمَدِينَةِ، وَأَحْتَلُّ فِي السَّاحَةِ مَجْلِسِي، | ٧ 7 |
When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
| فَيَرَانِي الشُّبَّانُ وَيَتَوَارَوْنَ، وَيَقِفُ الشُّيُوخُ احْتِرَاماً لِي. | ٨ 8 |
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
| يَمْتَنِعُ الْعُظَمَاءُ عَنِ الْكَلامِ وَيَضَعُونَ أَيْدِيَهُمْ عَلَى أَفْوَاهِهِمْ. | ٩ 9 |
The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
| يَتَلاشَى صَوْتُ النُّبَلاءِ، وَتَلْتَصِقُ أَلْسِنَتُهُمْ بِأَحْنَاكِهِمْ. | ١٠ 10 |
The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
| إِذَا سَمِعَتْ لِيَ الأُذُنُ تُطَوِّبُنِي، وَإذَا شَهِدَتْنِي الْعَيْنُ تُثْنِي عَلَيَّ، | ١١ 11 |
The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
| لأَنِّي أَنْقَذْتُ الْبَائِسَ الْمُسْتَغِيثَ، وَأَجَرْتُ الْيَتِيمَ طَالِبَ الْعَوْنِ، | ١٢ 12 |
Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.
| فَحَلَّتْ عَلَيَّ بَرَكَةُ الْمُشْرِفِ عَلَى الْمَوْتِ، وَجَعَلْتُ قَلْبَ الأَرْمَلَةِ يَتَهَلَّلُ فَرَحاً. | ١٣ 13 |
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
| ارْتَدَيْتُ الْبِرَّ فَكَسَانِي، وَكَجُبَّةٍ وَعِمَامَةٍ كَانَ عَدْلِي. | ١٤ 14 |
I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
| كُنْتُ عُيُوناً لِلأَعْمَى، وَأَقْدَاماً لِلأَعْرَجِ، | ١٥ 15 |
I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
| وَكُنْتُ أَباً لِلْمِسْكِينِ، أَتَقَصَّى دَعْوَى مَنْ لَمْ أَعْرِفْهُ. | ١٦ 16 |
I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
| هَشَّمْتُ أَنْيَابَ الظَّالِمِ وَمِنْ بَيْنِ أَسْنَانِهِ نَزَعْتُ الْفَرِيسَةَ، | ١٧ 17 |
I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
| ثُمَّ حَدَّثْتُ نَفْسِي: إِنِّي سَأَمُوتُ فِي خَيْمَتِي وَتَتَكَاثَرُ أَيَّامِي كَحَبَّاتِ الرَّمْلِ. | ١٨ 18 |
And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.
| سَتَمْتَدُّ أُصُولِي إِلَى الْمِيَاهِ، وَالطَّلُّ يَبِيتُ عَلَى أَغْصَانِي. | ١٩ 19 |
My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.
| يَتَجَدَّدُ مَجْدِي دَائِماً، وَقَوْسِي أَبَداً جَدِيدَةٌ فِي يَدِي. | ٢٠ 20 |
My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.
| يَسْتَمِعُ النَّاسُ لِي وَيَنْتَظِرُونَ، وَيَصْمُتُونَ مُنْصِتِينَ لِمَشُورَتِي. | ٢١ 21 |
They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.
| بَعْدَ كَلامِي لَا يُثَنُّونَ عَلَى أَقْوَالِي، وَحَدِيثِي يَقْطُرُ عَلَيْهِمْ كَالنَّدَى. | ٢٢ 22 |
To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
| يَتَرَقَّبُونَنِي كَالْغَيْثِ، وَيَفْتَحُونَ أَفْوَاهَهُمْ كَمَنْ يَنْهَلُ مِنْ مَطَرِ الرَّبِيعِ | ٢٣ 23 |
They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
| إِنِ ابْتَسَمْتُ لَهُمْ لَا يُصَدِّقُونَ، وَنُورُ وَجْهِي لَمْ يَطْرَحُوهُ عَنْهُمْ بَعِيداً. | ٢٤ 24 |
If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
| أَخْتَارُ لَهُمْ طَرِيقَهُمْ وَأَتَصَدَّرُ مَجْلِسَهُمْ، وَأَكُونُ بَيْنَهُمْ كَمَلِكٍ بَيْنَ جُيُوشِهِ، وَكَالْمُعَزِّي بَيْنَ النَّائِحِينَ. | ٢٥ 25 |
If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.
