Job 38
1 Then Yahweh responded to Job, out of a storm, and said: —
| ثُمَّ قَالَ الرَّبُّ لأَيُّوبَ مِنَ الْعَاصِفَةِ: | ١ |
2 Who is it that darkeneth counsel, by words, without knowledge?
| «مَنْ ذَا الَّذِي يُظْلِمُ الْقَضَاءَ بِكَلامٍ مُجَرَّدٍ مِنَ الْمَعْرِفَةِ؟ | ٢ |
3 Gird, I pray thee—like a strong man—thy loins, that I may ask thee, and inform thou me:
| اشْدُدْ حَقَوَيْكَ كَرَجُلٍ لأَسْأَلَكَ فَتُجِيبَنِي | ٣ |
4 Where wast thou, when I founded the earth? Tell, if thou knowest understanding!
| أَيْنَ كُنْتَ عِنْدَمَا أَسَّسْتُ الأَرْضَ؟ أَخْبِرْنِي إِنْ كُنْتَ ذَا حِكْمَةٍ. | ٤ |
5 Who set the measurements thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched out over it a line?
| مَنْ حَدَّدَ مَقَايِيسَهَا، إِنْ كُنْتَ حَقّاً تَعْرِفُ؟ أَوْ مَنْ مَدَّ عَلَيْهَا خَيْطَ الْقِيَاسِ؟ | ٥ |
6 Whereon were the pedestals thereof sunk? Or who laid the corner stone thereof; —
| عَلَى أَيِّ شَيْءٍ اسْتَقَرَّتْ قَوَاعِدُهَا؟ وَمَنْ وَضَعَ حَجَرَ زَاوِيَتِهَا؟ | ٦ |
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
| بَيْنَمَا كَانَتْ كَوَاكِبُ السَّمَاءِ تَتَرَنَّمُ مَعاً وَمَلائِكَةُ اللهِ تَهْتِفُ بِفَرَحٍ. | ٧ |
8 Or [who] shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;
| مَنْ حَجَزَ الْبَحْرَ بِبَوَّابَاتٍ، عِنْدَمَا انْدَفَقَ مِنْ رَحِمِ الأَرْضِ، | ٨ |
9 When I put a cloud as the garment thereof, and a thick cloud as the swaddling-band thereof;
| حِينَ جَعَلْتُ السُّحُبَ لِبَاساً لَهُ وَالظُّلْمَةَ قِمَاطَهُ، | ٩ |
10 And brake off for it my boundary, and fixed a bar and double doors;
| عِنْدَمَا عَيَّنْتُ لَهُ حُدُوداً، وَأَثْبَتُّ بَوَّابَاتِهِ وَمَغَالِيقَهُ فِي مَوَاضِعِهَا، | ١٠ |
11 And said—Hitherto, shalt thou come, and no further, —and, here, shalt thou set a limit to the majesty of thy waves?
| وَقُلْتُ لَهُ: إِلَى هُنَا تُخُومُكَ فَلا تَتَعَدَّاهَا، وَهُنَا يَتَوَقَّفُ عُتُوُّ أَمْوَاجِكَ؟ | ١١ |
12 Since thy days [began] hast thou commanded the morning? or caused the dawn to know its place;
| هَلْ أَمَرْتَ مَرَّةً الصُّبْحَ فِي أَيَّامِكَ، وَأَرَيْتَ الْفَجْرَ مَوْضِعَهُ، | ١٢ |
13 That it might lay hold of the wings of the earth, and the lawless be shaken out of it?
| لِيَقْبِضَ عَلَى أَكْنَافِ الأَرْضِ وَيَنْفُضَ الأَشْرَارَ مِنْهَا؟ | ١٣ |
14 It transformeth itself like the clay of a seal, so that things stand forth like one arrayed;
| تَتَشَكَّلُ كَطِينٍ تَحْتَ الْخَاتَمِ، وَتَبْدُو مَعَالِمُهَا كَمَعَالِمِ الرِّدَاءِ. | ١٤ |
15 That their light may be withdrawn from the lawless, and, the lofty arm, be shivered.
| يَمْتَنِعُ النُّورُ عَنِ الأَشْرَارِ، وَتَتَحَطَّمُ ذِرَاعُهُمُ الْمُرْتَفِعَةُ. | ١٥ |
16 Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? Or, through the secret recesses of the resounding deep, hast thou wandered?
| هَلْ غُصْتَ إِلَى يَنَابِيعِ الْبَحْرِ، أَمْ دَلَفْتَ إِلَى مَقَاصِيرِ اللُّجَجِ؟ | ١٦ |
17 Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee? And, the gates of the death-shade, couldst thou descry?
| هَلِ اطَّلَعْتَ عَلَى أَبْوَابِ الْمَنِيَّةِ، أَمْ رَأَيْتَ بَوَّابَاتِ ظِلالِ الْمَوْتِ؟ | ١٧ |
18 Hast thou well considered, even the breadths of the earth? Tell—if thou knowest it all!
| هَلْ أَحَطْتَ بِعَرْضِ الأَرْضِ؟ أَخْبِرْنِي إِنْ كُنْتَ بِكُلِّ هَذَا عَلِيماً. | ١٨ |
19 Where then is the way, the light shall abide? And, the darkness, where then is its place?
| أَيْنَ الطَّرِيقُ إِلَى مَقَرِّ النُّورِ، وَأَيْنَ مُسْتَقَرُّ الظُّلْمَةِ؟ | ١٩ |
20 That thou mayest conduct it unto the bound thereof, and that thou mayest perceive the paths to its house.
| حَتَّى تَقُودَهَا إِلَى تُخُومِهَا وَتَعْرِفَ سُبُلَ مَسْكَنِهَا؟ | ٢٠ |
21 Thou knowest, for, then, hadst thou been born! And, in number, thy days are many!
| حَقّاً أَنْتَ تَعْرِفُهَا لأَنَّكَ آنَئِذٍ كُنْتَ قَدْ وُلِدْتَ وَعِشْتَ أَيَّاماً طَوِيلَةً! | ٢١ |
22 Hast thou entered into the treasuries of the snow? And, the treasuries of the hail, couldst thou see?
| هَلْ دَخَلْتَ إِلَى مَخَازِنِ الثَّلْجِ، أَمْ رَأَيْتَ خَزَائِنَ الْبَرَدِ، | ٢٢ |
23 Which I have reserved for a time of distress, for the day of conflict and of war?
| الَّتِي ادَّخَرْتُهَا لأَوْقَاتِ الضِّيقِ، لِيَوْمِ الْمَعْرَكَةِ وَالْحَرْبِ؟ | ٢٣ |
24 Where then is the way the lightning is parted? The east wind spreadeth itself abroad over the earth.
| مَا هُوَ السَّبِيلُ إِلَى مَوْضِعِ انْتِشَارِ النُّورِ، أَوْ أَيْنَ تَتَوَزَّعُ الرِّيحُ الشَّرْقِيَّةُ عَلَى الأَرْضِ؟ | ٢٤ |
25 Who hath cloven—for the torrent—a channel? Or a way for the lightning of thunders;
| مَنْ حَفَرَ قَنَوَاتٍ لِسُيُولِ الْمَطَرِ، وَمَمَرّاً لِلصَّوَاعِقِ، | ٢٥ |
26 To give rain over the no-man’s land, the desert, where no son of earth is;
| لِيُمْطِرَ عَلَى أَرْضٍ مُقْفِرَةٍ لَا إِنْسَانَ فِيهَا، | ٢٦ |
27 To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass?
| لِيُرْوِيَ الأَرْضَ الْخَرِبَةَ، وَلِيَسْتَنْبِتَ الأَرْضَ عُشْباً؟ | ٢٧ |
28 Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
| هَلْ لِلْمَطَرِ أَبٌ؟ وَمَنْ أَنْجَبَ قَطَرَاتِ النَّدَى؟ | ٢٨ |
29 Out of whose womb, came forth the ice? And, the hoar-frost of the heavens, who hath given it birth?
| وَمِنْ أَيِّ أَحْشَاءٍ خَرَجَ الْجَمَدُ، وَمَنْ وَلَدَ صَقِيعَ السَّمَاءِ؟ | ٢٩ |
30 Like a stone, are the waters congealed, and, the face of the roaring deep, becometh firm!
| تَتَجَلَّدُ الْمِيَاهُ كَحِجَارَةٍ وَيَتَجَمَّدُ وَجْهُ الْغَمْرِ. | ٣٠ |
31 Canst thou bind the fetters of the Pleiades? Or, the bands of Orion, canst thou unloose?
| هَلْ تَرْبِطُ سَلاسِلَ الثُّرَيَّا، أَمْ تَفُكُّ عُقَدَ الْجَوْزَاءِ؟ | ٣١ |
32 Canst thou bring forth the signs of the Zodiac each in its season? Or, the Bear and her Young, canst thou lead?
| هَلْ تَهْدِي كَوَاكِبَ الْمَنَازِلِ فِي فُصُولِهَا، أَمْ تَهْدِي النَّعْشَ مَعَ بِنَاتِهِ؟ | ٣٢ |
33 Knowest thou, the statutes of the heavens? Or didst thou appoint his dominion over the earth?
| هَلْ تَعْرِفُ أَحْكَامَ السَّمَاوَاتِ، أَمْ أَسَّسْتَ سُلْطَتَهَا عَلَى الأَرْضِ؟ | ٣٣ |
34 Canst thou lift up, to the thick cloud, thy voice, and the overflow of waters cover thee?
| هَلْ تَرْفَعُ صَوْتَكَ آمِراً الْغَمَامَ فَيَغْمُرَكَ فَيْضُ الْمِيَاهِ؟ | ٣٤ |
35 Canst thou send forth the lightnings, so that they go, and say to thee, Behold us?
| هَلْ فِي وُسْعِكَ أَنْ تُطْلِقَ الْبُرُوقَ فَتَمْضِيَ وَتَقُولَ لَكَ: هَا نَحْنُ طَوْعَ أَمْرِكَ؟ | ٣٥ |
36 Who hath put—into cloud-forms—wisdom? Or who hath given—to the meteor—understanding?
| مَنْ أَضْفَى عَلَى الْغُيُومِ حِكْمَةً وَأَنْعَمَ عَلَى الضَّبَابِ بِالْفَهْمِ؟ | ٣٦ |
37 Who can count the thin clouds, in wisdom? And, the bottles of the heavens, who can empty out;
| مَنْ لَهُ الْحِكْمَةُ لِيُحْصِيَ النُّجُومَ، وَمَنْ يَصُبُّ الْمَاءَ مِنْ مَيَازِيبِ السَّمَاءِ، | ٣٧ |
38 When the dust is cast into a clod, and the lumps are bound together?
| حِينَ يَتَلَبَّدُ التُّرَابُ وَتَتَمَاسَكُ كُتَلُ الطِّينِ؟ | ٣٨ |
39 Wilt thou hunt—for the Lioness—prey? Or, the craving of the Strong Lion, wilt thou satisfy;
| هَلْ تَصْطَادُ الْفَرِيسَةَ لِلَّبُؤَةِ، أَمْ تُشْبِعُ جُوعَ الأَشْبَالِ، | ٣٩ |
40 When they settle down in dens, abide in covert, for lying in wait?
| حِينَ تَتَرَبَّصُ فِي الْعَرَائِنِ وَتَكْمُنُ فِي أَوْجَارِهَا؟ | ٤٠ |
41 Who prepareth for the Raven his nourishment, —when his young ones—unto GOD—cry out, [when] they wander for lack of food?
| مَنْ يُزَوِّدُ الْغُرَابَ بِصَيْدِهِ إِذْ تَنْعَبُ فِرَاخُهُ مُسْتَغِيثَةً بِاللهِ، وَتَهِيمُ لاِفْتِقَارِهَا إِلَى الْقُوتِ؟ | ٤١ |
