< Job 17 >

1 My breath is corrupt: my dayes are cut off, and the graue is readie for me.
«رُوحِي تَلِفَتْ. أَيَّامِي ٱنْطَفَأَتْ. إِنَّمَا ٱلْقُبُورُ لِي.١
2 There are none but mockers with mee, and mine eye continueth in their bitternesse.
«لَوْلَا ٱلْمُخَاتِلُونَ عِنْدِي، وَعَيْنِي تَبِيتُ عَلَى مُشَاجَرَاتِهِمْ.٢
3 Lay downe nowe and put me in suretie for thee: who is hee, that will touch mine hand?
كُنْ ضَامِنِي عِنْدَ نَفْسِكَ. مَنْ هُوَ ٱلَّذِي يُصَفِّقُ يَدِي؟٣
4 For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not set them vp on hie.
لِأَنَّكَ مَنَعْتَ قَلْبَهُمْ عَنِ ٱلْفِطْنَةِ، لِأَجْلِ ذَلِكَ لَا تَرْفَعُهُمُ.٤
5 For the eyes of his children shall faile, that speaketh flattery to his friends.
ٱلَّذِي يُسَلِّمُ ٱلْأَصْحَابَ لِلسَّلْبِ، تَتْلَفُ عُيُونُ بَنِيهِ.٥
6 Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.
أَوْقَفَنِي مَثَلًا لِلشُّعُوبِ، وَصِرْتُ لِلْبَصْقِ فِي ٱلْوَجْهِ.٦
7 Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.
كَلَّتْ عَيْنِي مِنَ ٱلْحُزْنِ، وَأَعْضَائِي كُلُّهَا كَٱلظِّلِّ.٧
8 The righteous shalbe astonied at this, and the innocent shalbe moued against ye hypocrite.
يَتَعَجَّبُ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمُونَ مِنْ هَذَا، وَٱلْبَرِئُ يَنْتَهِضُ عَلَى ٱلْفَاجِرِ.٨
9 But the righteous wil holde his way, and he whose hands are pure, shall increase his strength.
أَمَّا ٱلصِّدِّيقُ فَيَسْتَمْسِكُ بِطَرِيقِهِ، وَٱلطَّاهِرُ ٱلْيَدَيْنِ يَزْدَادُ قُوَّةً.٩
10 All you therefore turne you, and come nowe, and I shall not finde one wise among you.
«وَلَكِنِ ٱرْجِعُوا كُلُّكُمْ وَتَعَالَوْا، فَلَا أَجِدُ فِيكُمْ حَكِيمًا.١٠
11 My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoughts of mine heart
أَيَّامِي قَدْ عَبَرَتْ. مَقَاصِدِي، إِرْثُ قَلْبِي، قَدِ ٱنْتَزَعَتْ.١١
12 Haue changed the nyght for the day, and the light that approched, for darkenesse.
يَجْعَلُونَ ٱللَّيْلَ نَهَارًا، نُورًا قَرِيبًا لِلظُّلْمَةِ.١٢
13 Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shall make my bed in the darke. (Sheol h7585)
إِذَا رَجَوْتُ ٱلْهَاوِيَةَ بَيْتًا لِي، وَفِي ٱلظَّلَامِ مَهَّدْتُ فِرَاشِي، (Sheol h7585)١٣
14 I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister.
وَقُلْتُ لِلْقَبْرِ: أَنْتَ أَبِي، وَلِلدُّودِ: أَنْتَ أُمِّي وَأُخْتِي،١٤
15 Where is then now mine hope? or who shall consider the thing, that I hoped for?
فَأَيْنَ إِذًا آمَالِي؟ آمَالِي، مَنْ يُعَايِنُهَا؟١٥
16 They shall goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust. (Sheol h7585)
تَهْبِطُ إِلَى مَغَالِيقِ ٱلْهَاوِيَةِ إِذْ تَرْتَاحُ مَعًا فِي ٱلتُّرَابِ». (Sheol h7585)١٦

< Job 17 >