Job 22
1 Then Eliphaz replied,
| آنگاه الیفاز تیمانی پاسخ داد: |
2 “(Can anyone be useful to God?/Certainly no one can be useful to God.) [RHQ] Even people who are wise cannot be helpful to God.
| آیا از انسان فایده‌ای به خدا می‌رسد؟ حتی از خردمندترین انسانها نیز فایده‌ای به او نمی‌رسد! |
3 If you were righteous, (would that benefit Almighty [God]?/that certainly would not benefit Almighty [God].) [RHQ] If you had (lived a perfect life/never done anything that is wrong), would that help him?
| اگر تو عادل و درستکار باشی آیا نفع آن به خدای قادرمطلق می‌رسد؟ |
4 “Is it because you have an awesome respect for God that he punishes you? Is that the reason that he puts you on trial?
| اگر تو خداترس باشی آیا او تو را مجازات می‌کند؟ |
5 No, it certainly must be [RHQ] because you are extremely wicked. It must be that the evil things that you have done are so many that no one can count them!
| هرگز! مجازات تو برای شرارت و گناهان بی‌شماری است که در زندگی مرتکب شده‌ای! |
6 You must have lent money to others and wrongly forced them to give you things to guarantee that they would pay that money back to you; you must have taken all their clothes and left them with nothing to wear.
| از دوستانت که به تو مقروض بودند تمام لباسهایشان را گرو گرفتی و تمام دارایی آنها را تصاحب کردی. |
7 You must not have given water to those who were thirsty, and you must have refused to give food to those who were hungry.
| به تشنگان آب نداده‌ای و شکم گرسنگان را سیر نکرده‌ای، |
8 Because you were very powerful, you [must have] taken over all the people’s land, and then, being very respected, you have begun to live on that land.
| هر چند تو آدم توانگر و ثروتمندی بودی و املاک زیادی داشتی. |
9 [When] widows [came to you for help], you [must have] sent [them] away without giving them anything, and you must have oppressed orphans.
| بیوه‌زنان را دست خالی از پیش خود راندی و بازوی یتیمان را شکستی. |
10 Because of all that, now there are pits around you for you to fall into, and suddenly there are things that terrify you and cause you to tremble.
| برای همین است که اکنون دچار دامها و ترسهای غیرمنتظره شده‌ای و ظلمت و امواج وحشت، تو را فرا گرفته‌اند. |
11 [It is as though] it has become very dark, with the result that you cannot see anything, and [it is as though] [MET] a flood covers you.
12 “[But consider this, Job]: God lives [RHQ] high up in the heavens. From there he [RHQ] looks down on the highest stars.
| خدا بالاتر از آسمانها و بالاتر از بلندترین ستارگان است. |
13 So why do you say, ‘What does God know [about what we are doing]? [He is hidden from us by] dark clouds, so ([how] can he judge us?/he certainly cannot judge us.) [RHQ]’
| ولی تو می‌گویی: «خدا چگونه می‌تواند از پس ابرهای تیره، اعمال مرا مشاهده و داوری کند؟ |
14 [Do you think that] while he walks on the dome that covers the sky, there are thick clouds around him, with the result that he cannot see [what we do]?
| ابرها او را احاطه کرده‌اند و او نمی‌تواند ما را ببیند. او در آن بالا، بر گنبد آسمان حرکت می‌کند.» |
15 Will you continue to conduct your life the old way that evil people have done [for many years]?
| آیا می‌خواهی به راهی بروی که گناهکاران در گذشته از آن پیروی کرده‌اند؟ |
16 They suddenly died while they were still young; they disappeared [like everything disappears when there is] a flood [MET].
| همچون کسانی که اساس زندگیشان فرو ریخت و نابهنگام مردند؟ |
17 They kept saying to God, ‘Do not bother us,’ and they also said [defiantly], ‘Almighty [God] can do nothing [RHQ] to [harm] us!’
| زیرا به خدای قادر مطلق گفتند: «ای خدا از ما دور شو! تو چه کاری می‌توانی برای ما انجام دهی؟» |
18 But it was God who filled their houses with good things, so I cannot at all understand why wicked people think like they do.
| در حالی که خدا خانه‌هایشان را سرشار از برکت ساخته بود. بنابراین من خود را از راههای شریران دور نگه خواهم داشت. |
19 “But when God punishes wicked people, and righteous people see that, they are glad, and they laugh, ridiculing the wicked people.
| درستکاران و بی‌گناهان هلاکت شریران را می‌بینند و شاد شده، می‌خندند و می‌گویند: «دشمنان ما از بین رفتند و اموالشان در آتش سوخت.» |
20 They say, ‘Now our enemies have been destroyed, and all [their possessions] that were left have been burned in a fire.’
21 “So, [Job, ] be reconciled to God and make peace with him; if you do that, good things will happen to you.
| ای ایوب، از مخالفت با خدا دست بردار و با او صلح کن تا لطف او شامل حال تو شود. |
22 Allow him to teach you, and keep thinking about what he has told you.
| دستورهای او را بشنو و آنها را در دل خود جای بده. |
23 If you humble yourself and return to God, if you stop doing all the evil things that you have been doing in your house,
| اگر به سوی خدای قادرمطلق بازگشت نموده، تمام بدیها را از خانهٔ خود دور کنی، آنگاه زندگی تو همچون گذشته سروسامان خواهد گرفت. |
24 if you throw away your gold, even the fine gold from the dry stream beds in Ophir [land],
| اگر طمع را از خود دور کنی و طلای خود را دور بریزی، |
25 and if you allow Almighty [God] to be [as precious to you as] your gold and your silver [have been],
| آنگاه خدای قادر مطلق خودش طلا و نقرهٔ خالص برای تو خواهد بود! |
26 you will be happy because of your close relationship with God, and you will be able to approach him [IDM] [confidently].
| به او اعتماد خواهی کرد و از وجود او لذت خواهی برد. |
27 You will pray to him, and he will do what you request him to do; you will do the things that you promised him that you would do.
| نزد او دعا خواهی نمود و او دعای تو را اجابت خواهد کرد و تو تمام نذرهایت را به جا خواهی آورد. |
28 Everything that you decide to do will be successful; [it] will [be as though] a light [is] shining on the road in front of you.
| دست به هر کاری بزنی موفق خواهی شد و بر راههایت همیشه نور خواهد تابید. |
29 God humbles those who are proud, but he saves those who are downcast/discouraged.
| وقتی کسی به زیر کشیده می‌شود، تو می‌گویی: «بلندش کن!» و او افتاده را نجات می‌بخشد. |
30 God rescues those who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), so he will rescue you if you (start doing things that are right/are not guilty [IDM] of doing things that are wrong).”
| پس اگر فروتن شده، خود را از گناه پاکسازی او تو را خواهد رهانید. |
