أيُّوب 35

١ 1 وَقَالَ أَلِيهُو أَيْضاً:

Elihu spoke moreover, and said,

٢ 2 «أَتَحْسِبُ هَذَا عَدْلاً؟ ثُمَّ تَقُولُ: إِنَّ هَذَا حَقِّي أَمَامَ اللهِ،

Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?

٣ 3 وَتَسْأَلُ: أَيَّةُ مَنْفَعَةٍ لِي؟ هَلْ أَكُونُ فِي حَالٍ أَفْضَلَ لَوْ لَمْ أُخْطِئْ؟

For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

٤ 4 سَأُجِيبُكَ أَنْتَ وَأَصْدِقَاءَكَ مَعَكَ:

I will answer you, and your companions with you.

٥ 5 انْظُرْ إِلَى السَّمَاوَاتِ وَتَأَمَّلْ: تَفَرَّسْ فِي السُّحُبِ الشَّامِخَةِ فَوْقَكَ.

Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.

٦ 6 إِنْ أَثِمْتَ فَمَاذَا يُؤَثِّرُ هَذَا فِيهِ؟ وَإِنْ كَثَّرْتَ خَطَايَاكَ فَأَيُّ شَيْءٍ يَلْحَقُ بِهِ؟

If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?

٧ 7 وَإِنْ كُنْتَ بَارّاً فَمَاذَا تُعْطِيهِ؟ أَوْ مَاذَا يَأْخُذُ مِنْ يَدِكَ؟

If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?

٨ 8 إِنَّ شَرَّكَ يُؤَثِّرُ فِي إِنْسَانٍ نَظِيرِكَ، وَبِرَّكَ يَفِيدُ فَقَطْ أَبْنَاءَ النَّاسِ.

Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

٩ 9 لأَنَّ مِنْ كَثْرَةِ الْجَوْرِ يَسْتَغِيثُ الْمَظْلُومُونَ طَلَباً لِلْخَلاصِ مِنْ قَبْضَةِ الْعُتَاةِ،

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

١٠ 10 وَلَكِنْ لَا أَحَدَ يَقُولُ: أَيْنَ اللهُ صَانِعِي، الْوَاهِبُ تَرْنِيماً فِي اللَّيْلِ،

But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

١١ 11 الَّذِي عَلَّمَنَا أَكْثَرَ مِنْ وُحُوشِ الأَرْضِ، وَجَعَلَنَا أَعْظَمَ حِكْمَةً مِنْ طُيُورِ السَّمَاءِ.

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

١٢ 12 يَسْتَغِيثُونَ بِهِ فَلا يُجِيبُ مِنْ جَرَّاءِ تَشَامُخِ الأَشْرَارِ

There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

١٣ 13 فَإِنْ كَانَ اللهُ لَا يَسْمَعُ لِصُرَاخِهِمِ الفَارِغِ، وَلا يَأْبَهُ القَدِيرُ لَهُ

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

١٤ 14 فَكَمْ بِالأَحْرَى لَا يَسْمَعُ لَكَ عِنْدَمَا تَقُولُ إِنَّكَ لَا تَرَاهُ! لَكِنِ اصْبِرْ، فَدَعْوَاكَ أَمَامَهُ

Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.

١٥ 15 وَالآنَ، لأَنَّهُ لَمْ يُجَازِ فِي غَضَبِهِ وَلَمْ يُبَالِ بِمُعَاقَبَةِ الإِثْمِ،

But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:

١٦ 16 فَغَرَ أَيُّوبُ فَاهُ بِالْبَاطِلِ، وَأَكْثَرَ مِنَ الْكَلامِ بِجَهْلٍ!»

Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.