Job 12
1 Then Job said [to his three friends],
| آنگاه ایوب پاسخ داد: |
2 “You (talk as though/You think) [SAR] that you are the people [whom everyone should listen to], and that when you die, there will be no more wise people.
| آیا فکر می‌کنید عقل کل هستید؟ و اگر بمیرید حکمت هم با شما خواهد مرد؟ |
3 But I have as much good sense as you do; I am (not less wise than/certainly as wise as [LIT]) you. Certainly everyone knows [RHQ] all that you have said.
| من هم مثل شما فهم دارم و از شما کمتر نیستم. کیست که این چیزهایی را که شما گفته‌اید نداند؟ |
4 My friends all laugh at me now. Previously I habitually requested God to help me, and he answered/helped me. I am righteous, a very godly man [DOU], but everyone laughs at me.
| اکنون مایه خنده دوستان خود شده‌ام زیرا خدا را می‌طلبم و انتظار پاسخ او را می‌کشم. آری، مرد درستکار و بی‌عیب مورد تمسخر واقع شده است. |
5 Those [like you] who have no troubles make fun of me; they cause those [like me] who are already suffering to have more troubles.
| اشخاصی که آسوده هستند رنجدیدگان را اهانت می‌کنند و افتادگان را خوار می‌شمارند. |
6 Bandits live peacefully, and no one threatens those who cause God to become angry; their own strength is the god [that they worship].
| دزدان و خدانشناسان اگرچه به قدرتشان متکی هستند و نه به خدا، ولی در امنیت و آسایشند. |
7 “But ask the wild animals [what they know about God], and [if they could speak] they would teach you. [If you could] ask the birds, they would tell you.
| کیست که آنچه را شما می‌گویید نداند؟ حتی اگر از حیوانات و پرندگان هم بپرسید این چیزها را به شما یاد خواهند داد. اگر از زمین و دریا سؤال کنید به شما خواهند گفت که دست خداوند این همه را آفریده است. |
8 [If you could] ask the creatures [that crawl] on the ground, or the fish in the sea, they would tell you [about God].
9 All of them certainly know [RHQ] that it is Yahweh who has made them with his hands.
10 He directs the lives of all living creatures; he gives breath to all [us] humans [to enable us to remain alive].
| جان هر موجود زنده و نفس تمام بشر در دست خداست. |
11 And when we [SYN] hear what other people [like you] say, we [RHQ] think carefully about what they say [to determine what is good and what is bad], like we [SYN] taste food [to determine what is good and what is bad].
| درست همان‌طور که دهانم مزهٔ خوراک خوب را می‌فهمد، همچنان وقتی حقیقت را می‌شنوم گوشم آن را تشخیص می‌دهد. |
12 Old people are [often] very wise, and because of having lived many years, they understand much,
| شما می‌گویید: «اشخاص پیر حکیم هستند و همه چیز را درک می‌کنند.» |
13 but God is wise and very powerful; he has good sense and understands [everything].
| اما حکمت و قدرت واقعی از آن خداست. فقط او می‌داند که چه باید کرد. |
14 If he tears [something] down, no one can rebuild it; if he puts someone in prison, no one can open [the prison doors to allow that person to escape].
| آنچه را که او خراب کند دوباره نمی‌توان بنا کرد. وقتی که او عرصه را بر انسان تنگ نماید، راه گریزی نخواهد بود. |
15 When he prevents rain from falling, everything dries up. When he causes a lot of rain to fall, [the result is that] there are floods.
| او جلوی باران را می‌گیرد و زمین خشک می‌شود. طوفانها می‌فرستد و زمین را غرق آب می‌کند. |
16 He is the one who is truly strong and wise; he rules over those who deceive others and those whom they deceive.
| آری، قدرت و حکمت از آن اوست. فریب‌دهندگان و فریب‌خوردگان هر دو در دست او هستند. |
17 He [sometimes] causes [the king’s] officials to no longer be wise, and he causes judges to become foolish.
| او حکمت مشاوران و رهبران را از آنها می‌گیرد و آنها را احمق می‌سازد. |
18 He takes from kings the robes that they wear and puts loincloths around their waists, [causing them to become slaves].
| ردای پادشاهی را از تن پادشاهان درآورده، بر کمرشان بند می‌نهد و آنها را به اسارت می‌برد. |
19 He takes from priests the sacred clothes that they wear, [with the result that they no longer can do their work], and takes power from those who rule others.
| کاهنان را پست می‌سازد و زورمندان را سرنگون می‌نماید. |
20 He [sometimes] causes those whom others trust to be unable to speak, and he causes old men to no longer have good sense.
| صدای سخنوران و بصیرت ریش‌سفیدان را از ایشان می‌گیرد. |
21 He causes those who have authority to be despised, and he causes those who are powerful to no longer have any power/strength.
| بزرگان را حقیر و صاحبان قدرت را خلع سلاح می‌سازد. |
22 He causes things that are hidden in the darkness to be revealed.
| او اسرار نهفته در تاریکی را فاش می‌سازد و تیرگی و ظلمت را به روشنایی تبدیل می‌کند. |
23 He causes some nations to become very great, and [later] he destroys them; he causes the territory of some nations to become much larger, and [later] he causes them to be defeated and their people to be scattered.
| قومها را نیرومند می‌سازد، سپس آنها را نابود می‌کند؛ قبیله‌ها را زیاد می‌کند، سپس آنها را به اسارت می‌فرستد. |
24 He causes [some] rulers to become foolish/stupid, and then he causes them to wander around, lost, in an barren desert.
| رهبران ممالک را احمق ساخته، حیران و سرگردان رها می‌سازد |
25 They grope around in the darkness, without any light, and he causes them to stagger like [SIM] people who are drunk.”
| و آنها در تاریکی مثل کورها راه می‌روند و مانند مستها تلوتلو می‌خورند. |
