Job 4
1 Then Eliphaz, from Teman, replied to Job. He said,
| آنگاه الیفاز تیمانی پاسخ داد: |
2 “Will you please let me say something to you? I am not [RHQ] able to remain silent [any longer].
| ای ایوب، آیا اجازه می‌دهی چند کلمه‌ای حرف بزنم؟ چون دیگر نمی‌توانم ساکت بمانم. |
3 In the past, you have instructed/taught many people, and you have encouraged those who were weak.
| تو در گذشته بسیاری را نصیحت کرده‌ای که به خدا توکل جویند. به ضعیفان و بیچارگان و کسانی که گرفتار یأس بودند، قوت قلب داده‌ای. |
4 By what you said, you have helped those who (needed spiritual help/almost quit trusting in God) [MET], and you have enabled them to become spiritually strong again [MET].
5 But now, when you experience disasters, you become discouraged. The disasters hit you, and you are stunned.
| ولی اکنون که مصیبت به سراغ تو آمده است بی‌طاقت و پریشان شده‌ای. |
6 You revere God; (does that not cause you to trust [in him]?/that should cause you to trust [in him].) [RHQ] If you were guiltless, you would [RHQ] be confident that [God] would not [have allowed] these disasters [to] happen to you!
| آیا اطمینان تو نباید بر خداترسی‌ات باشد، و امید تو بر زندگی بی‌عیبی که داری؟ |
7 Think about this: Do innocent people die [while they are still young] [RHQ]? Does God get rid of godly people [RHQ]? [No!]
| قدری فکر کن و ببین آیا تا به حال دیده‌ای انسانی درستکار و بی‌گناهی هلاک شود؟ |
8 What I have experienced is this: [Just as] [MET] farmers who plant bad [seeds] do not harvest good [crops], [just as those who start] trouble for others, later bring trouble on themselves.
| تجربه من نشان می‌دهد که هر چه بکاری همان را درو می‌کنی. کسانی که گناه و بدی می‌کارند همان را درو می‌کنند. |
9 They die when God angrily blows his breath on them, when he is very angry with them.
| دَمِ خدا آنها را نابود می‌کند، و آنها از بادِ غضبش تباه می‌شوند. |
10 [Even though wicked people may be very powerful like] young lions, [God] will get rid of them [MET].
| شیر می‌غُرّد و شیر ژیان نعره می‌کشد، اما دندانهای شیران قوی خواهند شکست. |
11 [They will die like] fierce lions [that] starve to death when there are no animals that they can kill and eat, and [their children will be separated from each other like] young lions separate from each other [to find food].”
| شیر نر از گرسنگی تلف می‌شود و تمام بچه‌هایش پراکنده می‌گردند. |
12 “I heard a message that someone came and whispered to me.
| سخنی در خفا به من رسید، گویی کسی در گوشم زمزمه می‌کرد. |
13 He spoke to me at night when I was having a bad dream that disturbed/frightened me while I was fast asleep.
| این سخن در رویایی آشفته، هنگامی که مردم در خوابی سنگین بودند بر من آشکار گشت. |
14 It caused me to be afraid and tremble; it caused all my bones to shake.
| ناگهان ترس وجودم را فرا گرفت و لرزه بر استخوانهایم افتاد. |
15 A ghost glided past my face and caused the hair on [on the back of] my neck to stand straight up.
| روحی از برابر من گذشت و موی بر تنم راست شد! |
16 It stopped, but I could not see what form it had. But [I could sense that] there was some being in front of me, and it said in a quiet voice,
| حضور روح را احساس می‌کردم، ولی نمی‌توانستم او را ببینم. سپس در آن سکوت وحشتناک این ندا به گوشم رسید: |
17 ‘(Does God consider anyone to be righteous?/No human beings can be righteous in God’s sight!) [RHQ] (Their creator cannot consider them to be pure./Can their creator consider them to be pure?) [RHQ]
| «آیا انسان خاکی می‌تواند در نظر خدای خالق، پاک و بی‌گناه به حساب بیاید؟ |
18 God cannot be sure that his own angels [will always do what is right]; he declares that some of them have done what is wrong.
| خدا حتی به فرشتگان آسمان نیز اعتماد ندارد و بر خادمان خود خرده می‌گیرد، |
19 So he certainly cannot trust human beings who were made from dust and clay, who are crushed as easily as moths are crushed!
| چه برسد به آدمیانی که از خاک آفریده شده‌اند و مانند بید ناپایدارند. |
20 People are sometimes well in the morning, but in the evening they are dead. They are gone forever and do not even know it (OR, and no one pays any attention to it).
| صبح، زنده‌اند و شب، می‌میرند و برای همیشه از بین می‌روند و اثری از آنها باقی نمی‌ماند. |
21 They are like [MET] tents that collapse [suddenly]: They die [suddenly] before they become wise.’”
| طنابِ خیمۀ آنها کشیده می‌شود و خیمه فرو می‌افتد، و آنها در جهالت می‌میرند.» |
