أيُّوب 3

١ 1 ثُمَّ تَكَلَّمَ أَيُّوبُ، فَشَتَمَ الْيَوْمَ الَّذِي وُلِدَ فِيهِ،

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.

٢ 2 وَقَالَ:

And Job spoke, and said,

٣ 3 «لَيْتَهُ بَادَ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي وُلِدْتُ فِيهِ، وَفَنِيَ اللَّيْلُ الَّذِي قِيلَ فِيهِ: قَدْ حُبِلَ بِطِفْلٍ ذَكَرٍ.

Let the day perish when I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

٤ 4 لِيَتَحَوَّلْ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمُ إِلَى ظَلامٍ. لَا يَرْعَاهُ اللهُ مِنْ فَوْقُ، وَلا يُشْرِقُ عَلَيْهِ نَهَارٌ.

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

٥ 5 لِيَسْتَوْلِ عَلَيْهِ الظَّلامُ وَظِلُّ الْمَوْتِ. لِيَكْتَنِفْهُ سَحَابٌ وَلْتُرَوِّعْهُ ظُلُمَاتُ النَّهَارِ.

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

٦ 6 أَمَّا ذَلِكَ اللَّيْلُ فَلْيَعْتَقِلْهُ الدُّجَى الْمُتَكَاثِفُ، وَلا يَبْتَهِجْ مَعَ سَائِرِ أَيَّامِ السَّنَةِ، وَلا يُحْصَ فِي عَدَدِ الشُّهُورِ.

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

٧ 7 لِيَكُنْ ذَلِكَ اللَّيْلُ عَاقِراً، لَا يَتَرَدَّدُ فِيهِ هُتَافٌ.

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come in it.

٨ 8 لِيَلْعَنْهُ السَّحَرَةُ الْحَاذِقُونَ فِي إِيْقَاظِ التِّنِّينِ!

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

٩ 9 لِتُظْلِمْ كَوَاكِبُ شَفَقِهِ، وَلْيَرْتَقِبِ النُّورَ مِنْ غَيْرِ طَائِلٍ، وَلا يَرَ هُدُبَ الْفَجْرِ،

Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

١٠ 10 لأَنَّهُ لَمْ يُغْلِقْ رَحِمَ أُمِّي وَلَمْ يَسْتُرِ الشَّقَاءَ عَنْ عَيْنَيَّ.

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.

١١ 11 لِمَ لَمْ أَمُتْ فِي الرَّحِمِ، وَلِمَ لَمْ أُسْلِمِ الرُّوحَ عِنْدَمَا خَرَجْتُ مِنْ بَطْنِ أُمِّي؟

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the womb?

١٢ 12 لِمَاذَا وَجَدْتُ الرُّكَبَ لِتُعِينَنَي وَالثُّدِيَّ لِتُرْضِعَنِي؟

Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?

١٣ 13 وَإلَّا لَظَلَلْتُ مُضْطَجِعاً سَاكِناً، وَلَكُنْتُ نَائِماً مُسْتَرِيحاً

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

١٤ 14 مَعَ مُلُوكِ الأَرْضِ وَمُشِيرِيهَا، الَّذِينَ بَنَوْا أَهْرَاماً لأَنْفُسِهِمْ.

With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;

١٥ 15 أَوْ مَعَ الرُّؤَسَاءِ الَّذِينَ كَنَزُوا ذَهَباً وَمَلأُوا بُيُوتَهُمْ فِضَّةً.

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

١٦ 16 أَوْ لِمَاذَا لَمْ أُطْمَرْ فِي الأَرْضِ كَسِقْطٍ لَمْ يَرَ النُّورَ؟

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

١٧ 17 فَهُنَاكَ يَكُفُّ الأَشْرَارُ عَنْ إِثَارَةِ الْمَتَاعِبِ، وَهُنَاكَ يَرْتَاحُ الْمُرْهَقُونَ.

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.

١٨ 18 هُنَاكَ يَطْمَئِنُّ الأَسْرَى جَمِيعاً، إِذْ لَا يُلاحِقُهُمْ صَوْتُ الْمُسَخِّرِ.

There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

١٩ 19 هُنَاكَ يَكُونُ الصَّغِيرُ كَالْكَبِيرِ، وَالْعَبْدُ مُتَحَرِّراً مِنْ سَيِّدِهِ.

The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

٢٠ 20 لِمَ يُوْهَبُ الشَّقِيُّ نُوراً، وَذَوُو النُّفُوسِ الْمُرَّةِ حَيَاةً؟

Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

٢١ 21 الَّذِينَ يَتُوقُونَ إِلَى الْمَوْتِ فَلا يُقْبِلُ، وَيَنْقُبُونَ عَنْهُ أَكْثَرَ مِمَّا يَنْقُبُونَ عَنِ الْكُنُوزِ الْخَفِيَّةِ،

Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

٢٢ 22 الَّذِينَ يَنْتَشُونَ غِبْطَةً، وَيَسْتَبْشِرُونَ حِينَ يَعْثُرُونَ عَلَى ضَرِيحٍ!

Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

٢٣ 23 بَلْ لِمَاذَا يُوْهَبُ نُورٌ وَحَيَاةٌ لِرَجُلٍ ضَلَّتْ بِهِ طَرِيقُهُ، وَسَدَّ اللهُ حَوْلَهُ؟

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

٢٤ 24 اسْتَبْدَلْتُ طَعَامِي بِالأَنِينِ، وَزَفْرَتِي تَنْسَكِبُ كَالْمِيَاهِ،

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

٢٥ 25 لأَنَّهُ قَدْ حَلَّ بِي مَا كُنْتُ أَخْشَاهُ، وَأَصَابَنِي مَا كُنْتُ أَرْتَعِبُ مِنْهُ.

For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I feared hath come to me.

٢٦ 26 فَلا طُمَأْنِينَةَ لِي وَلا اسْتَقْرَارَ وَلا رَاحَةَ، بَعْدَ أَنِ اجْتَاحَتْنِي الْكُرُوبُ».

I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.