أيُّوب 38
| ثُمَّ قَالَ الرَّبُّ لأَيُّوبَ مِنَ الْعَاصِفَةِ: | ١ 1 |
And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:
| «مَنْ ذَا الَّذِي يُظْلِمُ الْقَضَاءَ بِكَلامٍ مُجَرَّدٍ مِنَ الْمَعْرِفَةِ؟ | ٢ 2 |
“Who [is] this—darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?
| اشْدُدْ حَقَوَيْكَ كَرَجُلٍ لأَسْأَلَكَ فَتُجِيبَنِي | ٣ 3 |
Now gird your loins as a man, And I ask you, and you cause Me to know.
| أَيْنَ كُنْتَ عِنْدَمَا أَسَّسْتُ الأَرْضَ؟ أَخْبِرْنِي إِنْ كُنْتَ ذَا حِكْمَةٍ. | ٤ 4 |
Where were you when I founded the earth? Declare, if you have known understanding.
| مَنْ حَدَّدَ مَقَايِيسَهَا، إِنْ كُنْتَ حَقّاً تَعْرِفُ؟ أَوْ مَنْ مَدَّ عَلَيْهَا خَيْطَ الْقِيَاسِ؟ | ٥ 5 |
Who placed its measures—if you know? Or who has stretched out a line on it?
| عَلَى أَيِّ شَيْءٍ اسْتَقَرَّتْ قَوَاعِدُهَا؟ وَمَنْ وَضَعَ حَجَرَ زَاوِيَتِهَا؟ | ٦ 6 |
On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who has cast its cornerstone—
| بَيْنَمَا كَانَتْ كَوَاكِبُ السَّمَاءِ تَتَرَنَّمُ مَعاً وَمَلائِكَةُ اللهِ تَهْتِفُ بِفَرَحٍ. | ٧ 7 |
In the singing together of [the] stars of morning, When all [the] sons of God shout for joy?
| مَنْ حَجَزَ الْبَحْرَ بِبَوَّابَاتٍ، عِنْدَمَا انْدَفَقَ مِنْ رَحِمِ الأَرْضِ، | ٨ 8 |
And He shuts up the sea with doors, In its coming forth, it goes out from the womb.
| حِينَ جَعَلْتُ السُّحُبَ لِبَاساً لَهُ وَالظُّلْمَةَ قِمَاطَهُ، | ٩ 9 |
In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,
| عِنْدَمَا عَيَّنْتُ لَهُ حُدُوداً، وَأَثْبَتُّ بَوَّابَاتِهِ وَمَغَالِيقَهُ فِي مَوَاضِعِهَا، | ١٠ 10 |
And I measure My statute over it, And place bar and doors,
| وَقُلْتُ لَهُ: إِلَى هُنَا تُخُومُكَ فَلا تَتَعَدَّاهَا، وَهُنَا يَتَوَقَّفُ عُتُوُّ أَمْوَاجِكَ؟ | ١١ 11 |
And say, To here you come, and no more, And a command is placed On the pride of your billows.
| هَلْ أَمَرْتَ مَرَّةً الصُّبْحَ فِي أَيَّامِكَ، وَأَرَيْتَ الْفَجْرَ مَوْضِعَهُ، | ١٢ 12 |
Have you commanded morning since your days? Do you cause the dawn to know its place?
| لِيَقْبِضَ عَلَى أَكْنَافِ الأَرْضِ وَيَنْفُضَ الأَشْرَارَ مِنْهَا؟ | ١٣ 13 |
To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,
| تَتَشَكَّلُ كَطِينٍ تَحْتَ الْخَاتَمِ، وَتَبْدُو مَعَالِمُهَا كَمَعَالِمِ الرِّدَاءِ. | ١٤ 14 |
It turns itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.
| يَمْتَنِعُ النُّورُ عَنِ الأَشْرَارِ، وَتَتَحَطَّمُ ذِرَاعُهُمُ الْمُرْتَفِعَةُ. | ١٥ 15 |
And their light is withheld from the wicked, And the arm lifted up is broken.
| هَلْ غُصْتَ إِلَى يَنَابِيعِ الْبَحْرِ، أَمْ دَلَفْتَ إِلَى مَقَاصِيرِ اللُّجَجِ؟ | ١٦ 16 |
Have you come to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Have you walked up and down?
| هَلِ اطَّلَعْتَ عَلَى أَبْوَابِ الْمَنِيَّةِ، أَمْ رَأَيْتَ بَوَّابَاتِ ظِلالِ الْمَوْتِ؟ | ١٧ 17 |
Were the gates of death revealed to you? And do you see the gates of death-shade?
| هَلْ أَحَطْتَ بِعَرْضِ الأَرْضِ؟ أَخْبِرْنِي إِنْ كُنْتَ بِكُلِّ هَذَا عَلِيماً. | ١٨ 18 |
You have understanding, Even to the broad places of earth! Declare—if you have known it all.
| أَيْنَ الطَّرِيقُ إِلَى مَقَرِّ النُّورِ، وَأَيْنَ مُسْتَقَرُّ الظُّلْمَةِ؟ | ١٩ 19 |
Where [is] this—the way light dwells? And darkness, where [is] this—its place?
| حَتَّى تَقُودَهَا إِلَى تُخُومِهَا وَتَعْرِفَ سُبُلَ مَسْكَنِهَا؟ | ٢٠ 20 |
That you take it to its boundary, And that you understand the paths of its house.
| حَقّاً أَنْتَ تَعْرِفُهَا لأَنَّكَ آنَئِذٍ كُنْتَ قَدْ وُلِدْتَ وَعِشْتَ أَيَّاماً طَوِيلَةً! | ٢١ 21 |
You have known—for then you are born, And the number of your days [are] many!
| هَلْ دَخَلْتَ إِلَى مَخَازِنِ الثَّلْجِ، أَمْ رَأَيْتَ خَزَائِنَ الْبَرَدِ، | ٢٢ 22 |
Have you come to the treasure of snow? Indeed, do you see the treasures of hail,
| الَّتِي ادَّخَرْتُهَا لأَوْقَاتِ الضِّيقِ، لِيَوْمِ الْمَعْرَكَةِ وَالْحَرْبِ؟ | ٢٣ 23 |
That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle?
| مَا هُوَ السَّبِيلُ إِلَى مَوْضِعِ انْتِشَارِ النُّورِ، أَوْ أَيْنَ تَتَوَزَّعُ الرِّيحُ الشَّرْقِيَّةُ عَلَى الأَرْضِ؟ | ٢٤ 24 |
Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scatters an east wind over the earth.
| مَنْ حَفَرَ قَنَوَاتٍ لِسُيُولِ الْمَطَرِ، وَمَمَرّاً لِلصَّوَاعِقِ، | ٢٥ 25 |
Who has divided a conduit for the flood? And a way for the lightning of the voices?
| لِيُمْطِرَ عَلَى أَرْضٍ مُقْفِرَةٍ لَا إِنْسَانَ فِيهَا، | ٢٦ 26 |
To cause [it] to rain on a land [with] no man, A wilderness [with] no man in it.
| لِيُرْوِيَ الأَرْضَ الْخَرِبَةَ، وَلِيَسْتَنْبِتَ الأَرْضَ عُشْباً؟ | ٢٧ 27 |
To satisfy a desolate and ruined place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?
| هَلْ لِلْمَطَرِ أَبٌ؟ وَمَنْ أَنْجَبَ قَطَرَاتِ النَّدَى؟ | ٢٨ 28 |
Does the rain have a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
| وَمِنْ أَيِّ أَحْشَاءٍ خَرَجَ الْجَمَدُ، وَمَنْ وَلَدَ صَقِيعَ السَّمَاءِ؟ | ٢٩ 29 |
From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoarfrost of the heavens, Who has begotten it?
| تَتَجَلَّدُ الْمِيَاهُ كَحِجَارَةٍ وَيَتَجَمَّدُ وَجْهُ الْغَمْرِ. | ٣٠ 30 |
Waters are hidden as a stone, And the face of the deep is captured.
| هَلْ تَرْبِطُ سَلاسِلَ الثُّرَيَّا، أَمْ تَفُكُّ عُقَدَ الْجَوْزَاءِ؟ | ٣١ 31 |
Do you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Or do you open the cords of Orion?
| هَلْ تَهْدِي كَوَاكِبَ الْمَنَازِلِ فِي فُصُولِهَا، أَمْ تَهْدِي النَّعْشَ مَعَ بِنَاتِهِ؟ | ٣٢ 32 |
Do you bring out the twelve signs in [their] season? And do you comfort the Great Bear over her sons?
| هَلْ تَعْرِفُ أَحْكَامَ السَّمَاوَاتِ، أَمْ أَسَّسْتَ سُلْطَتَهَا عَلَى الأَرْضِ؟ | ٣٣ 33 |
Have you known the statutes of the heavens? Or do you appoint Its dominion in the earth?
| هَلْ تَرْفَعُ صَوْتَكَ آمِراً الْغَمَامَ فَيَغْمُرَكَ فَيْضُ الْمِيَاهِ؟ | ٣٤ 34 |
Do you lift up your voice to the cloud, And abundance of water covers you?
| هَلْ فِي وُسْعِكَ أَنْ تُطْلِقَ الْبُرُوقَ فَتَمْضِيَ وَتَقُولَ لَكَ: هَا نَحْنُ طَوْعَ أَمْرِكَ؟ | ٣٥ 35 |
Do you send out lightnings, and they go And say to you, Behold us?
| مَنْ أَضْفَى عَلَى الْغُيُومِ حِكْمَةً وَأَنْعَمَ عَلَى الضَّبَابِ بِالْفَهْمِ؟ | ٣٦ 36 |
Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the covered part?
| مَنْ لَهُ الْحِكْمَةُ لِيُحْصِيَ النُّجُومَ، وَمَنْ يَصُبُّ الْمَاءَ مِنْ مَيَازِيبِ السَّمَاءِ، | ٣٧ 37 |
Who numbers the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who causes to lie down,
| حِينَ يَتَلَبَّدُ التُّرَابُ وَتَتَمَاسَكُ كُتَلُ الطِّينِ؟ | ٣٨ 38 |
In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?
| هَلْ تَصْطَادُ الْفَرِيسَةَ لِلَّبُؤَةِ، أَمْ تُشْبِعُ جُوعَ الأَشْبَالِ، | ٣٩ 39 |
Do you hunt prey for a lion? And fulfill the desire of young lions?
| حِينَ تَتَرَبَّصُ فِي الْعَرَائِنِ وَتَكْمُنُ فِي أَوْجَارِهَا؟ | ٤٠ 40 |
When they bow down in dens—Abide in a thicket for a covert?
| مَنْ يُزَوِّدُ الْغُرَابَ بِصَيْدِهِ إِذْ تَنْعَبُ فِرَاخُهُ مُسْتَغِيثَةً بِاللهِ، وَتَهِيمُ لاِفْتِقَارِهَا إِلَى الْقُوتِ؟ | ٤١ 41 |
Who prepares for a raven his provision, When his young ones cry to God? They wander without food.”
