Job 8
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,
| فَأَجَابَ بِلْدَدُ ٱلشُّوحِيُّ وَقَالَ: | ١ |
2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and [let] like a mighty wind be the words of thy mouth?
| «إِلَى مَتَى تَقُولُ هَذَا، وَتَكُونُ أَقْوَالُ فِيكَ رِيحًا شَدِيدَةً؟ | ٢ |
3 Should God pervert justice? or should the Almighty pervert righteousness?
| هَلِ ٱللهُ يُعَوِّجُ ٱلْقَضَاءَ، أَوِ ٱلْقَدِيرُ يَعْكِسُ ٱلْحَقَّ؟ | ٣ |
4 If thy children have sinned against him, then did he send them off through the means of their transgression.
| إِذْ أَخْطَأَ إِلَيْهِ بَنُوكَ، دَفَعَهُمْ إِلَى يَدِ مَعْصِيَتِهِمْ. | ٤ |
5 If thou wilt earnestly seek for God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
| فَإِنْ بَكَّرْتَ أَنْتَ إِلَى ٱللهِ وَتَضَرَّعْتَ إِلَى ٱلْقَدِيرِ، | ٥ |
6 If thou become pure and upright: surely then will he watch over thee, and restore thy righteous habitation.
| إِنْ كُنْتَ أَنْتَ زَكِيًّا مُسْتَقِيمًا، فَإِنَّهُ ٱلْآنَ يَتَنَبَّهُ لَكَ وَيُسْلِمُ مَسْكَنَ بِرِّكَ. | ٦ |
7 And thy beginning will have been small; because thy latter end will grow up greatly.
| وَإِنْ تَكُنْ أُولَاكَ صَغِيرَةً فَآخِرَتُكَ تَكْثُرُ جِدًّا. | ٧ |
8 For ask, I pray thee, of an earlier generation, and prepare thyself to [stand by] the research of their fathers; —
| «اِسْأَلِ ٱلْقُرُونَ ٱلْأُولَى وَتَأَكَّدْ مَبَاحِثَ آبَائِهِمْ، | ٨ |
9 For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because a [mere] shadow are our days upon earth; —
| لِأَنَّنَا نَحْنُ مِنْ أَمْسٍ وَلَا نَعْلَمُ، لِأَنَّ أَيَّامَنَا عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ ظِلٌّ. | ٩ |
10 Behold, these will truly teach thee, they will speak unto thee, and out of their very heart will they bring forth words:
| فَهَلَّا يُعْلِمُونَكَ؟ يَقُولُونَ لَكَ، وَمِنْ قُلُوبِهِمْ يُخْرِجُونَ أَقْوَالًا قَائِلِينَ: | ١٠ |
11 Can the bulrush shoot upward without mire? can the meadow-grass grow up without water?
| هَلْ يَنْمِي ٱلْبَرْدِيُّ فِي غَيْرِ ٱلْغَمَقَةِ، أَوْ تَنْبُتُ ٱلْحَلْفَاءُ بِلَا مَاءٍ؟ | ١١ |
12 It is yet in its greenness, not yet cut down, when it withereth before any other grass.
| وَهُوَ بَعْدُ فِي نَضَارَتِهِ لَمْ يُقْطَعْ، يَيْبَسُ قَبْلَ كُلِّ ٱلْعُشْبِ. | ١٢ |
13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the hypocrite will perish:
| هَكَذَا سُبُلُ كُلِّ ٱلنَّاسِينَ ٱللهَ، وَرَجَاءُ ٱلْفَاجِرِ يَخِيبُ، | ١٣ |
14 [It is he] whose trust will be cut off, and but a spider's web is that in which he confideth.
| فَيَنْقَطِعُ ٱعْتِمَادُهُ، وَمُتَّكَلُهُ بَيْتُ ٱلْعَنْكَبُوتِ! | ١٤ |
15 He leaneth against his house, but it shall not stand: he layeth fast hold on it, but it shall not remain erect.
| يَسْتَنِدُ إِلَى بَيْتِهِ فَلَا يَثْبُتُ. يَتَمَسَّكُ بِهِ فَلَا يَقُومُ. | ١٥ |
16 He is in full vigor before the sun, and over his garden his shoots go forth.
| هُوَ رَطْبٌ تُجَاهَ ٱلشَّمْسِ وَعَلَى جَنَّتِهِ تَنْبُتُ خَرَاعِيبُهُ. | ١٦ |
17 His roots are twisted about a stoneheap, he selecteth [for himself] a place of stones.
| وَأُصُولُهُ مُشْتَبِكَةٌ فِي ٱلرُّجْمَةِ، فَتَرَى مَحَلَّ ٱلْحِجَارَةِ. | ١٧ |
18 But when men destroy him from his place, then will it deny him, saying, I have never seen thee.
| إِنِ ٱقْتَلَعَهُ مِنْ مَكَانِهِ، يَجْحَدُهُ قَائِلًا: مَا رَأَيْتُكَ! | ١٨ |
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the [same] dust others will grow up.
| هَذَا هُوَ فَرَحُ طَرِيقِهِ، وَمِنَ ٱلتُّرَابِ يَنْبُتُ آخَرُ. | ١٩ |
20 Behold, God will not reject a perfect man, and will not hold fast by their hand the evil-doers:
| «هُوَذَا ٱللهُ لَا يَرْفُضُ ٱلْكَامِلَ، وَلَا يَأْخُذُ بِيَدِ فَاعِلِي ٱلشَّرِّ. | ٢٠ |
21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with joyful shouting.
| عِنْدَمَا يَمْلَأُ فَاكَ ضَحِكًا، وَشَفَتَيْكَ هُتَافًا، | ٢١ |
22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
| يَلْبَسُ مُبْغِضُوكَ خِزْيًا، أَمَّا خَيْمَةُ ٱلْأَشْرَارِ فَلَا تَكُونُ». | ٢٢ |
