Job 18
1 Then Bildad replied [again]:
| آنگاه بلدد شوحی پاسخ داد: |
2 “When are you going to stop talking [RHQ]? If you would stop talking and listen, we could tell you something.
| تا کی می‌خواهی به این حرفها ادامه دهی؟ اگر می‌خواهی ما هم سخن بگوییم قدری عاقلانه‌تر صحبت کن. |
3 Why do you think that we are [as stupid] as cattle? [DOU, RHQ]
| آیا تو فکر می‌کنی ما مثل حیوان بی‌شعور هستیم؟ |
4 By being [very] angry and hurting yourself, do you think that doing that will shake the earth, or cause the rocks in the mountains to move? [RHQ]?
| چرا بی‌جهت خشمگین می‌شوی و به خود صدمه می‌زنی؟ آیا انتظار داری به خاطر تو زمین بلرزد و صخره‌ها واژگون شوند. |
5 “What will happen is that the lives of wicked people [like you] end [as quickly as we can] put out a light or extinguish the flame of a fire.
| چراغ مرد بدکار خاموش خواهد شد و شعله‌اش نوری نخواهد داد. |
6 And when the lamps above them [in their tents] are extinguished, there will be no light in those tents.
| در هر خانه‌ای که شرارت وجود داشته باشد، تاریکی حکمفرما خواهد بود. |
7 [For many years] they walked confidently, but later [in life it was as though] they stumbled and fell, because [they themselves did not heed] the advice [that they gave to others].
| قدمهای شرور سست می‌شوند و او قربانی نقشه‌های خود می‌گردد. |
8 [It was as though] they walked into their own net or fell into a pit that they themselves have dug.
| او با پای خود به دام می‌افتد و تله پاشنهٔ پای او را می‌گیرد و او را رها نمی‌کند. |
9 [It was as though] a trap grabbed their heels and held them fast [DOU],
10 [as though the noose of] a rope that was hidden on the ground, [whose other end was fastened to the limb of a tree], seized them when they walked into it.
| سر راه او تله‌ها پنهان شده است. |
11 Everywhere they went, there were things that caused them to be terrified; [it was as though] those things were pursuing them and biting at their heels.
| ترسها از هر طرف به او هجوم می‌آورند و او را قدم به قدم تعقیب می‌کنند. |
12 They became hungry, with the result that they had no strength. They experienced disasters [PRS] constantly.
| مصیبت دهان خود را برای او باز کرده و فلاکت آماده است تا او را به کام خود فرو برد. |
13 Diseases spread all over their skin/bodies; diseases that (caused their bodies to decay/destroyed their arms and legs).
| مرض مهلک به جان او می‌افتد و او را به کام مرگ می‌کشاند. |
14 [When they died, ] they were snatched away from their tents and brought to the one who rules over the dead.
| از خانهٔ امن خود جدا شده، نزد پادشاه مرگ برده می‌شود. |
15 Now their tents will burn down, when burning sulfur rains down on those tents!
| خانه‌اش در زیر آتش گوگرد نابود می‌گردد. |
16 [Because those who died had no descendants], they were [like trees whose] roots have dried up and whose branches have all withered [MET].
| ریشه و شاخه‌هایش می‌خشکند و از بین می‌روند. |
17 No one on the earth will remember them any more; no [one on any] street [will even remember] their names [MTY].
| خاطرهٔ وجود او تمام از روی زمین محو می‌گردد و هیچ‌کس او را به یاد نمی‌آورد. |
18 They will be expelled from the earth where there is light, and they will be sent into the place where it is dark.
| از دنیای زندگان بیرون انداخته شده، از نور به تاریکی رانده می‌شود. |
19 They will have no children or grandchildren, no descendants where they previously lived.
| در میان قومش نسلی از او باقی نمی‌ماند. |
20 People from the east to the west [who hear about what happened to them], will be shocked and horrified.
| قومهای مغرب و مشرق از سرنوشت او حیران و هراسان می‌شوند. |
21 And that is what happens to ungodly/sinful people [like you], to people who (have no interest in/have rejected) God.”
| آری، این بلایی است که بر سر گناهکاران می‌آید، بر سر آنانی که خدا را نمی‌شناسند. |
