أيُّوب 8

١ 1 فَأَجَابَ بِلْدَدُ الشُّوحِيُّ:

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

٢ 2 «إِلَى مَتَى تَظَلُّ تَتَكَلَّمُ بِهَذِهِ الأَقْوَالِ، فَتَخْرُجَ مِنْ فَمِكَ كَرِيحٍ شَدِيدَةٍ؟

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

٣ 3 أَيُحَرِّفُ اللهُ الْقَضَاءَ، أَمْ يَعْكِسُ الْقَدِيرُ مَا هُوَ حَقٌّ؟

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

٤ 4 إِنْ كَانَ أَبْنَاؤُكَ أَخْطَأُوا فَقَدْ أَوْقَعَ بِهِمْ جَزَاءَ مَعَاصِيهِمْ.

If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

٥ 5 فَإِنْ أَسْرَعْتَ وَطَلَبْتَ وَجْهَ اللهِ وَتَضَرَّعْتَ إِلَى الْقَدِيرِ،

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

٦ 6 وَإِنْ كُنْتَ نَقِيًّا صَالِحاً، فَإِنَّهُ حَتْماً يَلْتَفِتُ إِلَيْكَ وَيُكَافِئُكَ بِمَسْكَنِ بِرٍّ.

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

٧ 7 وَإِنْ تَكُنْ أُولاكَ مُتَوَاضِعَةً، فَإِنَّ آخِرَتَكَ تَكُونُ عَظِيمَةً جِدّاً.

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

٨ 8 اسْأَلِ الأَجْيَالَ الْغَابِرَةَ، وَتَأَمَّلْ مَا اخْتَبَرَهُ الآبَاءُ،

“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

٩ 9 فَإِنَّنَا قَدْ وُلِدْنَا بِالأَمْسِ الْقَرِيبِ، وَلا نَعْرِفُ شَيْئاً، لأَنَّ أَيَّامَنَا عَلَى الأَرْضِ ظِلٌّ.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

١٠ 10 أَلا يُعْلِمُونَكَ وَيُخْبِرُونَكَ وَيَبُثُّونَكَ مَا فِي نُفُوسِهِمْ قَائِلِينَ:

Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

١١ 11 أَيَنْمُو الْبَرْدِيُّ حَيْثُ لَا مُسْتَنْقَعَ، أَمْ تَنْبُتُ الْحَلْفَاءُ مِنْ غَيْرِ مَاءٍ؟

“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

١٢ 12 إِنَّهَا تَيْبَسُ قَبْلَ سَائِرِ الْعُشْبِ، وَهِيَ فِي نَضَارَتِهَا لَمْ تُقْطَعْ.

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

١٣ 13 هَكَذَا يَكُونُ مَصِيرُ كُلِّ مَنْ يَنْسَى اللهَ، وَهَكَذَا يَخِيبُ رَجَاءُ الْفَاجِرِ.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

١٤ 14 يَنْهَارُ مَا يَعْتَمِدُ عَلَيْهِ، وَيُصْبِحُ مِثْلَ بَيْتِ الْعَنْكَبُوتِ.

whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.

١٥ 15 يَتَّكِئُ عَلَيْهِ فَيَنْهَدِمُ، وَيَتَعَلَّقُ بِهِ فَلا يَثْبُتُ.

He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.

١٦ 16 يَزْدَهِرُ كَشَجَرَةٍ أَمَامَ الشَّمْسِ، تَنْتَشِرُ أَغْصَانُهَا فَوْقَ بُسْتَانِهَا.

He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.

١٧ 17 تَتَشَابَكُ أُصُولُهُ حَوْلَ كَوْمَةِ الْحِجَارَةِ، وَتَلْتَفُّ حَوْلَ الصُّخُورِ.

His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.

١٨ 18 وَلَكِنْ حَالَمَا يُسْتَأْصَلُ مِنْ مَوْضِعِهِ يُنْكِرُهُ مَكَانُهُ قَائِلاً:’مَا رَأَيْتُكَ قَطُّ!‘

If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’

١٩ 19 هَكَذَا تَكُونُ بَهْجَةُ طَرِيقِهِ. وَلَكِنْ مِنَ التُّرَابِ يَأْتِي آخَرُونَ وَيأْخُذُونَ مَكَانَهُ.

Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.

٢٠ 20 إِنَّ اللهَ لَا يَنْبِذُ الإِنْسَانَ الْكَامِلَ وَلا يَمُدُّ يَدَ الْعَوْنِ لِفَاعِلِي الشَّرِّ.

“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

٢١ 21 يَمْلأُ فَمَكَ ضَحِكاً وَشَفَتَيْكَ هُتَافاً،

He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

٢٢ 22 عِنْدَئِذٍ يَرْتَدِي مُبْغِضُوكَ الْخِزْيَ، وَبَيْتُ الأَشْرَارِ يَنْهَارُ».

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”