Job 33
1 “But now, Job, listen carefully to all that I am going to say [DOU].
| وَالآنَ يَا أَيُّوبُ أصْغِ إِلَى أَقْوَالِي، وَاسْمَعْ كَلامِي كُلَّهُ: | ١ |
2 I am ready to tell you [MTY, DOU] [what I think].
| هَا أَنَا قَدْ فَتَحْتُ فَمِي فَنَطَقَ لِسَانِي فِي حَنَكِي، | ٢ |
3 I know that I am speaking honestly and that I am speaking [MTY] sincerely.
| كَلِمَاتِي تَصْدُرُ مِنْ قَلْبٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ، وَشَفَتَايَ تَتَحَدَّثَانِ بِإِخْلاصٍ بِمَا أَعْلَمُ. | ٣ |
4 Almighty God has created me [as well as you], and his breath has caused me to live.
| رُوحُ اللهِ هُوَ الَّذِي كَوَّنَنِي، وَنَسَمَةُ الْقَدِيرِ أَحْيَتْنِي، | ٤ |
5 So, answer [what] I [say] if you can; think carefully [about how you will reply to me].
| فَأَجِبْنِي إِنْ كُنْتَ تَسْتَطِيعُ. أَحْسِنِ الدَّعْوَى، وَاتَّخِذْ لَكَ مَوْقِفاً. | ٥ |
6 “God considers that you, and I are both [equal]; he formed both of us from clay.
| إِنَّمَا أَنَا نَظِيرُكَ أَمَامَ اللهِ، مِنَ الطِّينِ جُبِلْتُ، | ٦ |
7 So you do not need to be afraid of me; I will not crush/oppress you [by what I say] [MTY].
| فَلا هَيْبَتِي تُخِيفُكَ، وَلا يَدِي ثَقِيلَةٌ عَلَيْكَ. | ٧ |
8 I have heard you [DOU] speaking, and this is what you have said:
| حَقّاً قَدْ تَكَلَّمْتَ فِي أُذُنَيَّ فَاسْتَمَعْتُ إِلَى أَقْوَالِكَ. | ٨ |
9 ‘I am innocent; I have not committed any sins; I am pure; I have not done things that are wrong.
| أَنْتَ قُلْتَ: أَنَا نَقِيٌّ بَرِيءٌ مِنْ كُلِّ ذَنْبٍ، أَنَا طَاهِرٌ لَا إِثْمَ فِيَّ، | ٩ |
10 But God finds reasons to accuse me, and he considers that I am his enemy.
| إِنَّمَا اللهُ يَتَرَبَّصُ بِي لِيَجِدَ عِلَّةً عَلَيَّ وَيَحْسِبَنِي عَدُوّاً لَهُ، | ١٠ |
11 [It is as though] he has put my feet (in stocks/between wooden blocks to prevent me from walking away), and he watches everything that I do.’ [MTY]
| يَضَعُ أَقْدَامِي فِي الْمِقْطَرَةِ، وَيَتَرَصَّدُ سُبُلِي. | ١١ |
12 But what you have said is wrong, and I will tell you [what you have said that is wrong]. God is much greater than any human.
| وَلَكِنَّكَ مُخْطِئٌ فِي هَذَا، وَأَنَا الَّذِي أُجِيبُكَ. إِنَّ اللهَ أَعْظَمُ مِنَ الإِنْسَانِ، | ١٢ |
13 So, (why are you arguing against God, saying ‘He never answers my questions’?/you should not be arguing against God, saying ‘He never answers my questions.’) [RHQ]
| فَمَا بَالُكَ تُخَاصِمُهُ قَائِلاً: إِنَّهُ لَنْ يُجِيبَ عَنْ تَسَاؤُلاتِي؟ | ١٣ |
14 God does speak [to us] in various ways, but we do not pay any attention to what he says.
| إِنَّ اللهَ يَتَكَلَّمُ بِطَرِيقَةٍ أَوْ بِأُخْرَى وَإِنْ كَانَ الإِنْسَانُ لَا يُدْرِكُهَا. | ١٤ |
15 [Sometimes he speaks to us] at night in dreams and visions, when we are on our beds, asleep [DOU].
| يَتَكَلَّمُ فِي حُلْمٍ، فِي رُؤْيَا اللَّيْلِ عِنْدَمَا يَغْشَى النَّاسَ سُبَاتٌ عَمِيقٌ. | ١٥ |
16 He reveals things [MTY] to us and terrifies us by the things he warns us about.
| عِنْدَئِذٍ يَفْتَحُ آذَانَ النَّاسِ وَيُرْعِبُهُمْ بِتَحْذِيرَاتِهِ، | ١٦ |
17 He tell us those things in order that we stop doing [evil] things and to prevent us from becoming proud.
| لِيَصْرِفَ الإِنْسَانَ عَنْ خَطِيئَتِهِ وَيَسْتَأْصِلَ مِنْهُ الْكِبْرِيَاءَ، | ١٧ |
18 He does not want us to be destroyed [MTY]; he wants to prevent us from dying [MTY] [while we are still young].
| لِيُنْقِذَ نَفْسَهُ مِنَ الْهَاوِيَةِ وَحَيَاتَهُ مِنَ الْهَلاكِ بِحَدِّ السَّيْفِ. | ١٨ |
19 God also [sometimes] corrects us by forcing us to lie on our beds suffering much pain and with fever/aching in our bones.
| قَدْ يُقَوَّمُ الإِنْسَانُ بِالأَلَمِ عَلَى مَضْجَعِهِ، وَبِالأَوْجَاعِ النَّاشِبَةِ فِي عِظَامِهِ، | ١٩ |
20 The result is that we do not desire any food, not even very special food.
| حَتَّى تَعَافَ حَيَاتُهُ الطَّعَامَ، وَشَهِيَّتُهُ لَذِيذَ الْمَأْكَلِ. | ٢٠ |
21 Our bodies become very thin, with the result that we look like skeletons [HYP], and our bones stick out.
| يَبْلَى لَحْمُهُ فَيَخْتَفِي عَنِ الْعَيَانِ، وَتَنْبَرِي عِظَامُهُ الَّتِي كَانَتْ خَافِيَةً مِنْ قَبْلُ. | ٢١ |
22 [We know that] we will soon die and go to the place where dead people are.
| تَدْنُو نَفْسُهُ مِنَ الْهَاوِيَةِ، وَحَيَاتُهُ مِنْ زَبَانِيَةِ الْمَوْتِ. | ٢٢ |
23 “But sometimes an angel [may come to one of us], one of the thousands of angels who come to intervene between us and God, to tell us what are the right things for us [to do].
| إِنْ وُجِدَ لَهُ مَلاكٌ، شَفِيعٌ، وَاحِدٌ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَلْفٍ، لِيُعْلِنَ لِلإِنْسَانِ مَا هُوَ صَالِحٌ لَهُ، | ٢٣ |
24 The angel is kind to us and says to God, ‘Release that person, so that he does not descend to the place where dead people are! Do that because I have found the money to pay so that he can be released!
| يتَرَأَّفُ عَلَيْهِ قَائِلاً: أَنْقِذْهُ يَا رَبُّ مِنَ الانْحِدَارِ إِلَى الْهَاوِيَةِ، فَقَدْ وَجَدْتُ لَهُ فِدْيَةً. | ٢٤ |
25 Allow his body to be strong again; allow him to be strong like he was when he was a youth!’
| فَيَصِيرَ لَحْمُهُ أَكْثَرَ غَضَاضَةً مِن أَيَّامِ صِبَاهُ وَيَعُودَ إِلَى عَهْدِ رَيعَانِ شَبَابِهِ | ٢٥ |
26 When that happens, that person will pray to God, and God will accept/answer him; he will (enter God’s presence/worship God) joyfully, and then he will tell others how God saved him [from dying].
| عِنْدَئِذٍ يَدْعُو الْمَرْءُ اللهَ فَيَرْضَى عَنْهُ، وَيَمْثُلُ فِي حَضْرَتِهِ بِفَرَحٍ، وَيَرُدُّ لَهُ اللهُ بِرَّهُ، | ٢٦ |
27 He will sing as he tells everyone, ‘I sinned, and I did things that were not right, but God did not punish me in the way that I deserved.
| ثُمَّ يُرَنِّمُ أَمَامَ النَّاسِ قَائِلاً: لَقَدْ أَخْطَأْتُ وَحَرَّفْتُ مَا هُوَ حَقٌّ وَلَمْ أُجَازَ عَلَيْهِ، | ٢٧ |
28 He has saved me from dying and going to the place where dead people are, and I will continue to enjoy being alive.’
| قَدِ افْتَدَى اللهُ حَيَاتِي مِنَ الانْحِدَارِ إِلَى الْهَاوِيَةِ، فَتَنْتَعِشُ حَيَاتِي لِتَرَى النُّورَ. | ٢٨ |
29 God does all these things for us many times;
| هَذَا كُلُّهُ يُجْرِيهِ اللهُ عَلَى الإِنْسَانِ مَرَّتَيْنِ وَثَلاثَ مَرَّاتٍ، | ٢٩ |
30 he keeps us [SYN] from [dying and] going to the place where the dead are, in order that we can continue to enjoy being alive [IDM].
| لِيَرُدَّ نَفْسَهُ عَنِ الْهَاوِيَةِ لِيَسْتَضِيءَ بِنُورِ الْحَيَاةِ. | ٣٠ |
31 So Job, listen to me; do not say anything more; just allow me to speak.
| فَأَصْغِ يَا أَيُّوبُ وَأَنْصِتْ إِلَيَّ. اُصْمُتْ وَدَعْنِي أَتَكَلَّمُ. | ٣١ |
32 [After I speak], if you have something more that you want to say to me, say it, because I would like to find a way to declare that you (are innocent/have not done what is wrong).
| وَإِنْ كَانَ لَدَيْكَ مَا تَقُولُهُ فَأَجِبْنِي، تَكَلَّمْ، فَإِنِّي أَرْغَبُ فِي تَبْرِيرِكَ. | ٣٢ |
33 But if you have nothing more that you want to say, then just listen to me, and I will teach you how to become wise.”
| وَإلَّا فَأَصْغِ إِلَيَّ، أَنْصِتْ فَأُعَلِّمَكَ الْحِكْمَةَ». | ٣٣ |
