Job 8

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,

١ فَأَجَابَ بِلْدَدُ الشُّوحِيُّ:

2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and [let] like a mighty wind be the words of thy mouth?

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

3 Should God pervert justice? or should the Almighty pervert righteousness?

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

4 If thy children have sinned against him, then did he send them off through the means of their transgression.

٤ إِنْ كَانَ أَبْنَاؤُكَ أَخْطَأُوا فَقَدْ أَوْقَعَ بِهِمْ جَزَاءَ مَعَاصِيهِمْ.

5 If thou wilt earnestly seek for God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

٥ فَإِنْ أَسْرَعْتَ وَطَلَبْتَ وَجْهَ اللهِ وَتَضَرَّعْتَ إِلَى الْقَدِيرِ،

6 If thou become pure and upright: surely then will he watch over thee, and restore thy righteous habitation.

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

7 And thy beginning will have been small; because thy latter end will grow up greatly.

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

8 For ask, I pray thee, of an earlier generation, and prepare thyself to [stand by] the research of their fathers; —

٨ اسْأَلِ الأَجْيَالَ الْغَابِرَةَ، وَتَأَمَّلْ مَا اخْتَبَرَهُ الآبَاءُ،

9 For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because a [mere] shadow are our days upon earth; —

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

10 Behold, these will truly teach thee, they will speak unto thee, and out of their very heart will they bring forth words:

١٠ أَلا يُعْلِمُونَكَ وَيُخْبِرُونَكَ وَيَبُثُّونَكَ مَا فِي نُفُوسِهِمْ قَائِلِينَ:

11 Can the bulrush shoot upward without mire? can the meadow-grass grow up without water?

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

12 It is yet in its greenness, not yet cut down, when it withereth before any other grass.

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

13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the hypocrite will perish:

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

14 [It is he] whose trust will be cut off, and but a spider's web is that in which he confideth.

١٤ يَنْهَارُ مَا يَعْتَمِدُ عَلَيْهِ، وَيُصْبِحُ مِثْلَ بَيْتِ الْعَنْكَبُوتِ.

15 He leaneth against his house, but it shall not stand: he layeth fast hold on it, but it shall not remain erect.

١٥ يَتَّكِئُ عَلَيْهِ فَيَنْهَدِمُ، وَيَتَعَلَّقُ بِهِ فَلا يَثْبُتُ.

16 He is in full vigor before the sun, and over his garden his shoots go forth.

١٦ يَزْدَهِرُ كَشَجَرَةٍ أَمَامَ الشَّمْسِ، تَنْتَشِرُ أَغْصَانُهَا فَوْقَ بُسْتَانِهَا.

17 His roots are twisted about a stoneheap, he selecteth [for himself] a place of stones.

١٧ تَتَشَابَكُ أُصُولُهُ حَوْلَ كَوْمَةِ الْحِجَارَةِ، وَتَلْتَفُّ حَوْلَ الصُّخُورِ.

18 But when men destroy him from his place, then will it deny him, saying, I have never seen thee.

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

19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the [same] dust others will grow up.

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

20 Behold, God will not reject a perfect man, and will not hold fast by their hand the evil-doers:

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

21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with joyful shouting.

٢١ يَمْلأُ فَمَكَ ضَحِكاً وَشَفَتَيْكَ هُتَافاً،

22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

٢٢ عِنْدَئِذٍ يَرْتَدِي مُبْغِضُوكَ الْخِزْيَ، وَبَيْتُ الأَشْرَارِ يَنْهَارُ».