Job 15
1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
| فَقَالَ أَلِيفَازُ التَّيْمَانِيُّ: | ١ |
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
| «أَلَعَلَّ الْحَكِيمَ يُجِيبُ عَنْ مَعْرِفَةٍ بَاطِلَةٍ وَيَنْفُخُ بَطْنَهُ بِرِيحٍ شَرْقِيَّةٍ، | ٢ |
3 Should he reason with useless talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
| فَيَحْتَجَّ بِكَلامٍ أَجْوَفَ وَبِأَقْوَالٍ خَرْقَاءَ؟ | ٣ |
4 Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.
| أَمَّا أَنْتَ فَإِنَّكَ تَطْرَحُ جَانِباً مَخَافَةَ اللهِ وَتَنْقُضُ عِبَادَتَهُ. | ٤ |
5 For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
| كَلامُكَ يُقِرُّ بِإِثْمِكَ، وَأَنْتَ تُؤْثِرُ أُسْلُوبَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ. | ٥ |
6 your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yea, your own lips testify against you.
| فَمُكَ يَدِينُكَ، لَا أَنَا، شَفَتَاكَ تَشْهَدَانِ عَلَيْكَ. | ٦ |
7 Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?
| أَلَعَلَّكَ وُلِدْتَ أَوَّلَ النَّاسِ، أَوْ كُوِّنْتَ قَبْلَ التِّلالِ؟ | ٧ |
8 Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?
| هَلْ تَنَصَّتَّ فِي مَجْلِسِ اللهِ، فَقَصَرْتَ الْحِكْمَةَ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ؟ | ٨ |
9 What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?
| أَيُّ شَيْءٍ تَعْرِفُهُ وَنَحْنُ نَجْهَلُهُ؟ وَأَيُّ شَيْءٍ تَفْهَمُهُ وَنَحْنُ لَا نَمْلِكُ إِدْرَاكَهُ؟ | ٩ |
10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than your father.
| رُبَّ شَيْخٍ وَأَشْيَبَ بَيْنَنَا أَكْبَرَ سِنّاً مِنْ أَبِيكَ. | ١٠ |
11 Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing with you?
| أَيَسِيرَةٌ عَلَيْكَ تَعْزِيَاتُ اللهِ؟ حَتَّى هَذِهِ الْكَلِمَاتُ الَّتِي خُوطِبْتَ بِها بِرِفْقٍ؟ | ١١ |
12 Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes overlook,
| لِمَاذَا يَسْتَهْوِيكَ قَلْبُكَ وَتَتَوَهَّجُ عَيْنَاكَ، | ١٢ |
13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
| حَتَّى تَنْفُثَ غَضَبَكَ ضِدَّ اللهِ، وَيَصْدُرَ عَنْ فَمِكَ مِثْلُ هَذِهِ الأَقْوَالِ؟ | ١٣ |
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
| مَنْ هُوَ الإِنْسَانُ حَتَّى يَزْكُوَ أَوْ مَوْلُودُ الْمَرْأَةِ حَتَّى يَتَبَرَّرَ؟ | ١٤ |
15 Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
| فَإِنْ كَانَ اللهُ لَا يَأْتَمِنُ قِدِّيسِيهِ، وَالسَّمَاوَاتُ غَيْرَ طَاهِرَةٍ لَدَيْهِ، | ١٥ |
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?
| فَكَمْ بِالأَحْرَى يَكُونُ الإِنْسَانُ الشَّارِبُ الإِثْمَ كَالْمَاءِ مَكْرُوهاً وَفَاسِداً! | ١٦ |
17 I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
| دَعْنِي أُبَيِّنُ لَكَ، وَاسْمَعْ لِي لأُحَدِّثَكَ بِمَا رَأَيْتُهُ، | ١٧ |
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
| وَبِمَا أَخْبَرَ بِهِ حُكَمَاءُ عَنْ آبَائِهِمْ وَلَمْ يَكْتُمُوهُ، | ١٨ |
19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
| الَّذِينَ لَهُمْ وَحْدَهُمْ وُهِبَتِ الأَرْضُ وَلَمْ يَدْخُلْ بَيْنَهُمْ غَرِيبٌ. | ١٩ |
20 The wicked man labors with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
| يَتَلَوَّى الشِّرِّيرُ أَلَماً كُلَّ أَيَّامِ حَيَاتِهِ، وَمَعْدُودَةٌ هِيَ سِنُو الْجَائِرِ. | ٢٠ |
21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
| يَضِجُّ صَوْتٌ مُرْعِبٌ فِي أُذُنَيْهِ، وَفِي أَوَانِ السَّلامِ يُفَاجِئُهُ الْمُخَرِّبُ. | ٢١ |
22 He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
| لَا يَأْمُلُ الرُّجُوعَ مِنَ الظُّلُمَاتِ، وَمَصِيرُهُ الْهَلاكُ بِالسَّيْفِ. | ٢٢ |
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
| يَهِيمُ بَحْثاً عَنْ لُقْمَةِ الْعَيْشِ، وَهُوَ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّ يَوْمَ الظُّلْمَةِ آتٍ وَشِيكاً. | ٢٣ |
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
| يُرْهِبُهُ الضِّيقُ وَالضَّنْكُ، وَيَطْغَيَانِ عَلَيْهِ كَمَلِكٍ مُتَأَهِّبٍ لِلْحَرْبِ. | ٢٤ |
25 For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty.
| لأَنَّهُ هَزَّ قَبْضَتَهُ مُتَحَدِّياً اللهَ، وَعَلَى الْقَدِيرِ يَتَجَبَّرُ، | ٢٥ |
26 He runs upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
| وَأَغَارَ عَلَيْهِ بِعِنَادٍ مُتَصَلِّفٍ، بِمَجَانٍّ غَلِيظَةٍ مَتِينَةٍ. | ٢٦ |
27 Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes fatness on his flanks.
| وَمَعَ أَنَّهُ كَسَا وَجْهَهُ سَمْناً، وَغَشَّى الشَّحْمُ كُلْيَتَيْهِ. | ٢٧ |
28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
| فَإِنَّهُ يُقِيمُ فِي مُدُنٍ خَرِبَةٍ وَبُيُوتٍ مَهْجُورَةٍ عَتِيدَةٍ أَنْ تُصْبِحَ رُكَاماً. | ٢٨ |
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
| يَفْقِدُ غِنَاهُ، وَتَتَبَخَّرُ ثَرْوَتُهُ، وَلا يَثْبُتُ لَهُ فِي الأَرْضِ مُقْتَنىً. | ٢٩ |
30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
| تَكْتَنِفُهُ دَائِماً الظُّلْمَةُ، وتُيَبِّسُ النَّارُ أَغْصَانَهُ، وَتُزِيلُهُ نَفْخَةٌ مِنْ فَمِ الرَّبِّ. | ٣٠ |
31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
| لَا يَخْدَعَنَّ نَفْسَهُ بِاتِّكَالِهِ عَلَى السُّوءِ، لأَنَّ السُّوءَ يَكُونُ جَزَاءَهُ. | ٣١ |
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
| يَسْتَوْفِيهِ كَامِلاً قَبْلَ يَوْمِهِ، وَتَكُونُ (حَيَاتُهُ) كَسُعُفٍ يَابِسَةٍ. | ٣٢ |
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
| وَكَكَرْمَةٍ تَسَاقَطَتْ عَنَاقِيدُ حِصْرِمِهَا، وَتَنَاثَرَ زَهْرُهَا كَالزَّيْتُونِ، | ٣٣ |
34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
| لأَنَّ جَمَاعَةَ الْفُجَّارِ عَقِيمُونَ، وَالنَّارُ تَلْتَهِمُ خِيَامَ الْمُرْتَشِينَ. | ٣٤ |
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.
| حَبِلُوا شَقَاوَةً وَأَنْجَبُوا إِثْماً، وَوَلَدَتْ بُطُونُهُمْ غِشّاً». | ٣٥ |
