Job 8
1 Then Bildad, from [the] Shuah [area], spoke to Job. He said,
| آنگاه بلدد شوحی پاسخ داد: |
2 “Job, how much longer will you talk like this? What you say is [only] hot air.
| ای ایوب، تا به کی به این حرفها ادامه می‌دهی؟ حرفهای تو باد هواست! |
3 Almighty God certainly never does [RHQ] what is unfair/unjust. He always does [LIT] what is right/fair.
| آیا خدای قادر مطلق عدالت و انصاف را زیر پا می‌گذارد؟ |
4 So, it is evident that your children have sinned against him, therefore he has caused them to be punished for evil things that they have done.
| فرزندانت به خدا گناه کردند و او به حق، ایشان را مجازات نمود. |
5 But, if you will [now] earnestly request [DOU] Almighty [God] to help you,
| ولی اکنون تو به درگاه خدای قادر مطلق دعا کن. |
6 and if you are pure and honest/righteous, he will surely do something good for you and reward you by giving your family back to you and enabling you to prosper.
| اگر آدم پاک و خوبی باشی، او دعایت را می‌شنود و تو را اجابت می‌کند و خانهٔ تو را برکت می‌دهد. |
7 And even though you [think that you] were not very prosperous/wealthy before, during the last part of your life you will become very wealthy.
| عاقبت تو آنچنان از خیر و برکت سرشار خواهد شد که زندگی گذشته‌ات در برابر آن ناچیز به نظر خواهد آمد. |
8 “I request you to think about what happened long ago and consider what our ancestors found out.
| از سالخوردگان بپرس تا از تجربهٔ خود به تو بیاموزند. |
9 [It seems as though] we were born only yesterday and we know very little [HYP]; our time here on the earth [disappears quickly, like] a shadow [MET].
| ما آنقدر زندگی نکرده‌ایم که همه چیز را بدانیم. |
10 So, why do you not allow your ancestors to teach you and tell you something? Allow them to tell you from what they learned!
| تو می‌توانی از حکمت گذشتگان درس عبرت بگیری و آنها به تو خواهند گفت که |
11 Papyrus can certainly not [RHQ] grow in places where there is no marsh/swamp; reeds certainly cannot [RHQ] flourish/grow where there is no water.
| آیا گیاه پاپیروس می‌تواند خارج از مرداب بروید؟ آیا علف مرداب بدون آب نمی‌میرد؟ |
12 [If they do not have enough water], while they are still blossoming, they wither more quickly than other plants wither.
| آیا در حالی که هنوز سبز است و آماده بریدن نیست پژمرده نمی‌شود؟ |
13 Those who do not pay attention to what God says are like those [reeds]; godless people stop confidently expecting [that good things will happen to them].
| همچنین است سرنوشت آنانی که خدا را فراموش می‌کنند. امید شخص بی‌خدا ناپایدار است. |
14 The things they confidently expect to happen do not happen; things they trust [will help them] are [as fragile as] [MET] a spider’s web.
| شخص بی‌خدا مانند کسی است که به تار عنکبوت اعتماد کند. |
15 If they lean against a house (OR, trust in their wealth; OR, lean on a spider web), it does not (endure/protect them) [LIT]; they cling to things [to be protected], but those things do not remain firm.
| اگر به آن تکیه نماید، می‌افتد و اگر از آن آویزان شود، آن تار او را نگه نمی‌دارد. |
16 Godless people [are like plants] [MET] that are watered before the sun rises; their shoots spread all over the gardens.
| او مانند گیاهی است که صبحگاهان تر و تازه می‌شود و شاخه‌هایش در باغ گسترده می‌گردند. |
17 The roots of those plants twist around piles of stones and cling tightly to rocks.
| در میان سنگها ریشه می‌دواند و خود را محکم نگه می‌دارد. |
18 But if those plants are pulled out, [it is as though] the place where they were planted says ‘They were never here!’ [And that is what happens to wicked people who do not heed what God says].
| ولی وقتی آن را از ریشه می‌کنند دیگر کسی آن را به یاد نمی‌آورد، |
19 Truly, evil people [MET] are not joyful [IRO] for a long time; other people come and take their places.
| و گیاهان دیگری روییده جای آن را می‌گیرند. چنین است عاقبت شخص بی‌خدا. |
20 :So, [I tell you, Job], God will not reject you if you are truly godly/righteous, but he does not help [IDM] evil people.
| ولی بدان که خدا نیکان را ترک نمی‌گوید و بدکاران را کامیاب نمی‌گرداند. |
21 He will enable you [MTY] to continually laugh and to always shout [joyfully].
| او بار دیگر دهانت را از خنده و فریادهای شادی پر خواهد کرد، |
22 But those who hate you will be very ashamed, and the homes of wicked people will disappear.”
| و دشمنانت را رسوا و خانهٔ شریران را خراب خواهد نمود. |
