أيُّوب 30

١ 1 أَمَّا الآنَ فَقَدْ هَزَأَ بِي مَنْ هُمْ أَصْغَرُ مِنِّي سِنّاً، مَنْ كُنْتُ آنَفُ أَنْ أَجْعَلَ آبَاءَهُمْ مَعَ كِلابِ غَنَمِي.

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

٢ 2 إِذْ مَا جَدْوَى قُوَّةِ أَيْدِيهِمْ لِي بَعْدَ أَنْ أُصِيبَتْ بِعَجْزٍ؟

Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.

٣ 3 يَهِيمُونَ هُزَالَى جِيَاعاً، يَنْبِشُونَ الْيَابِسَةَ الْخَرِبَةَ الْمَهْجُورَةَ.

They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

٤ 4 يَلْتَقِطُونَ الْخُبَّيْزَةَ بَيْنَ الْعُلَّيْقِ، وَخُبْزُهُمْ عُرُوقُ الرَّتَمِ.

They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.

٥ 5 يُطْرَدُونَ مِنْ بَيْنِ النَّاسِ، وَيَصْرُخُونَ خَلْفَهُمْ كَمَا يَصْرُخُونَ عَلَى لِصٍّ.

They are driven forth from the midst of men; they cry after them as after a thief.

٦ 6 يُقِيمُونَ فِي كُهُوفِ الْوِدْيَانِ الْجَافَّةِ، بَيْنَ الصُّخُورِ وَفِي ثُقُوبِ الأَرْضِ.

In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

٧ 7 يَنْهَقُونَ بَيْنَ الْعُلَّيْقِ، وَيرْبِضُونَ تَحْتَ الْعَوْسَجِ.

Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together.

٨ 8 هُمْ حَمْقَى، أَبْنَاءُ قَوْمٍ خَامِلِينَ مَنْبُوذِينَ مِنَ الأَرْضِ.

They are children of churls, yea, children of ignoble men; they were scourged out of the land.

٩ 9 أَمَّا الآنَ فَقَدْ أَصْبَحْتُ مَثَارَ سُخْرِيَةٍ لَهُمْ وَمَثَلاً يَتَنَدَّرُونَ بِهِ

And now I am become their song, yea, I am a byword unto them.

١٠ 10 يَشْمَئِزُّونَ مِنِّي وَيَتَجَافَوْنَنِي، لَا يَتَوَانَوْنَ عَنِ الْبَصْقِ فِي وَجْهِي!

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

١١ 11 لأَنَّ اللهَ قَدْ أَرْخَى وَتَرَ قَوْسِي وَأَذَلَّنِي، انْقَلَبُوا ضِدِّي بِكُلِّ قُوَّتِهِمْ.

For He hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, and they have cast off the bridle before me.

١٢ 12 قَامَ صِغَارُهُمْ عَنْ يَمِينِي يُزِلُّونَ قَدَمِي وَيُمَهِّدُونَ سُبُلَ دَمَارِي.

Upon my right hand rise the brood; they entangle my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

١٣ 13 سَدُّوا عَلَيَّ مَنْفَذَ مَهْرَبِي، وَتَضَافَرُوا عَلَى هَلاكِي، مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يَكُونَ لِي مُعِينٌ.

They break up my path, they further my calamity, even men that have no helper.

١٤ 14 وَكَأَنَّمَا مِنْ ثُغْرَةٍ وَاسِعَةٍ تَدَافَعُوا نَحْوِي، وَانْدَفَعُوا هَاجِمِينَ بَيْنَ الرَّدْمِ.

As through a wide breach they come; in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me.

١٥ 15 طَغَتْ عَلَيَّ الأَهْوَالُ، فَتَطَايَرَتْ كَرَامَتِي كَوَرَقَةٍ أَمَامَ الرِّيحِ، وَمَضَى رَغْدِي كَالسَّحَابِ.

Terrors are turned upon me, they chase mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

١٦ 16 وَالآنَ تَهَافَتَتْ نَفْسِي عَلَيَّ وَتَنَاهَبَتْنِي أَيَّامُ بُؤْسِي.

And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

١٧ 17 يَنْخَرُ اللَّيْلُ عِظَامِي، وَآلامِي الضَّارِيَةُ لَا تَهْجَعُ.

In the night my bones are pierced, and fall from me, and my sinews take no rest.

١٨ 18 تَشُدُّ بِعُنْفٍ لِبَاسِي وَتَحْزِمُنِي مِثْلَ طَوْقِ عَبَاءَتِي.

By the great force of my disease is my garment disfigured; it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

١٩ 19 قَدْ طَرَحَنِي اللهُ فِي الْحَمْأَةِ فَأَشْبَهْتُ التُّرَابَ وَالرَّمَادَ.

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

٢٠ 20 أَسْتَغِيثُ بِكَ فَلا تَسْتَجِيبُ، وَأَقِفُ أَمَامَكَ فَلا تَأْبَهُ بِي.

I cry unto Thee, and Thou dost not answer me; I stand up, and Thou lookest at me.

٢١ 21 أَصْبَحْتَ لِي عَدُوّاً قَاسِياً، وَبِقُدْرَةِ ذِرَاعِكَ تَضْطَهِدُنِي.

Thou art turned to be cruel to me; with the might of Thy hand Thou hatest me.

٢٢ 22 خَطَفْتَنِي وَأَرْكَبْتَنِي عَلَى الرِّيحِ، تُذِيبُنِي فِي زَئِيرِ الْعَاصِفَةِ.

Thou liftest me up to the wind, Thou causest me to ride upon it; and Thou dissolvest my substance.

٢٣ 23 فَأَيْقَنْتُ أَنَّكَ تَسُوقُنِي إِلَى الْمَوْتِ، وَإِلَى دَارِ مِيعَادِ كُلِّ حَيٍّ.

For I know that Thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

٢٤ 24 وَلَكِنْ، أَلا يَمُدُّ إِنْسَانٌ يَدَهُ مِنْ تَحْتِ الأَنْقَاضِ؟ أَوَ لَا يَسْتَغِيثُ فِي بَلِيَّتِهِ؟

Surely none shall put forth his hand to a ruinous heap, neither because of these things shall help come in one's calamity,

٢٥ 25 أَلَمْ أَبْكِ لِمَنْ قَسَى عَلَيْهِ يَوْمُهُ؟ أَلَمْ تَحْزَنْ نَفْسِي لِلْمِسْكِينِ؟

If I have not wept for him that was in trouble, and if my soul grieved not for the needy.

٢٦ 26 وَلَكِنْ حِينَ تَرَقَّبْتُ الْخَيْرَ أَقْبَلَ الشَّرُّ، وَحِينَ تَوَقَّعْتُ النُّورَ هَجَمَ الظَّلامُ.

Yet, when I looked for good, there came evil; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

٢٧ 27 قَلْبِي يَغْلِي وَلَنْ يَهْدَأَ، وَأَيَّامُ الْبَلِيَّةِ غَشِيَتْنِي.

Mine inwards boil, and rest not; days of affliction are come upon me.

٢٨ 28 فَأَمْضِي نَائِحاً لَكِنْ مِنْ غَيْرِ عَزَاءٍ. أَقِفُ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ أَطْلُبُ الْعَوْنَ.

I go mourning without the sun; I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

٢٩ 29 صِرْتُ أَخاً لِبَنَاتِ آوَى، وَرَفِيقاً لِلنَّعَامِ.

I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

٣٠ 30 اسْوَدَّ جِلْدِي عَلَيَّ وَتَقَشَّرَ، وَاحْتَرَقَتْ عِظَامِي مِنَ الْحُمَّى

My skin is black, and falleth from me, and my bones are burned with heat.

٣١ 31 صَارَتْ قِيثَارَتِي لِلنَّوْحِ، وَمِزْمَارِي لِصَوْتِ النَّادِبِينَ.

Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of them that weep.