Job 35
1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,
| وَقَالَ أَلِيهُو أَيْضاً: | ١ |
2 Thinkest thou this to be right, [that] thou saidst, My righteousness [is] more than God’s?
| «أَتَحْسِبُ هَذَا عَدْلاً؟ ثُمَّ تَقُولُ: إِنَّ هَذَا حَقِّي أَمَامَ اللهِ، | ٢ |
3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? [and], What profit shall I have, [if I be cleansed] from my sin?
| وَتَسْأَلُ: أَيَّةُ مَنْفَعَةٍ لِي؟ هَلْ أَكُونُ فِي حَالٍ أَفْضَلَ لَوْ لَمْ أُخْطِئْ؟ | ٣ |
4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
| سَأُجِيبُكَ أَنْتَ وَأَصْدِقَاءَكَ مَعَكَ: | ٤ |
5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou.
| انْظُرْ إِلَى السَّمَاوَاتِ وَتَأَمَّلْ: تَفَرَّسْ فِي السُّحُبِ الشَّامِخَةِ فَوْقَكَ. | ٥ |
6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or [if] thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
| إِنْ أَثِمْتَ فَمَاذَا يُؤَثِّرُ هَذَا فِيهِ؟ وَإِنْ كَثَّرْتَ خَطَايَاكَ فَأَيُّ شَيْءٍ يَلْحَقُ بِهِ؟ | ٦ |
7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
| وَإِنْ كُنْتَ بَارّاً فَمَاذَا تُعْطِيهِ؟ أَوْ مَاذَا يَأْخُذُ مِنْ يَدِكَ؟ | ٧ |
8 Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art; ] and thy righteousness [may profit] the son of man.
| إِنَّ شَرَّكَ يُؤَثِّرُ فِي إِنْسَانٍ نَظِيرِكَ، وَبِرَّكَ يَفِيدُ فَقَطْ أَبْنَاءَ النَّاسِ. | ٨ |
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make [the oppressed] to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
| لأَنَّ مِنْ كَثْرَةِ الْجَوْرِ يَسْتَغِيثُ الْمَظْلُومُونَ طَلَباً لِلْخَلاصِ مِنْ قَبْضَةِ الْعُتَاةِ، | ٩ |
10 But none saith, Where [is] God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
| وَلَكِنْ لَا أَحَدَ يَقُولُ: أَيْنَ اللهُ صَانِعِي، الْوَاهِبُ تَرْنِيماً فِي اللَّيْلِ، | ١٠ |
11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
| الَّذِي عَلَّمَنَا أَكْثَرَ مِنْ وُحُوشِ الأَرْضِ، وَجَعَلَنَا أَعْظَمَ حِكْمَةً مِنْ طُيُورِ السَّمَاءِ. | ١١ |
12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
| يَسْتَغِيثُونَ بِهِ فَلا يُجِيبُ مِنْ جَرَّاءِ تَشَامُخِ الأَشْرَارِ | ١٢ |
13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
| فَإِنْ كَانَ اللهُ لَا يَسْمَعُ لِصُرَاخِهِمِ الفَارِغِ، وَلا يَأْبَهُ القَدِيرُ لَهُ | ١٣ |
14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, [yet] judgment [is] before him; therefore trust thou in him.
| فَكَمْ بِالأَحْرَى لَا يَسْمَعُ لَكَ عِنْدَمَا تَقُولُ إِنَّكَ لَا تَرَاهُ! لَكِنِ اصْبِرْ، فَدَعْوَاكَ أَمَامَهُ | ١٤ |
15 But now, because [it is] not [so], he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth [it] not in great extremity:
| وَالآنَ، لأَنَّهُ لَمْ يُجَازِ فِي غَضَبِهِ وَلَمْ يُبَالِ بِمُعَاقَبَةِ الإِثْمِ، | ١٥ |
16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
| فَغَرَ أَيُّوبُ فَاهُ بِالْبَاطِلِ، وَأَكْثَرَ مِنَ الْكَلامِ بِجَهْلٍ!» | ١٦ |
