Job 15
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
| فَأَجَابَ أَلِيفَازُ ٱلتَّيْمَانِيُّ وَقَالَ: | ١ |
2 “Should a wise man answer with useless knowledge and fill himself with the east wind?
| «أَلَعَلَّ ٱلْحَكِيمَ يُجِيبُ عَنْ مَعْرِفَةٍ بَاطِلَةٍ، وَيَمْلَأُ بَطْنَهُ مِنْ رِيحٍ شَرْقِيَّةٍ، | ٢ |
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk or with speeches with which he can do no good?
| فَيَحْتَجَّ بِكَلَامٍ لَا يُفِيدُ، وَبِأَحَادِيثَ لَا يَنْتَفِعُ بِهَا؟ | ٣ |
4 Indeed, you diminish respect for God; you obstruct devotion to him,
| أَمَّا أَنْتَ فَتُنَافِي ٱلْمَخَافَةَ، وَتُنَاقِضُ ٱلتَّقْوَى لَدَى ٱللهِ. | ٤ |
5 for your iniquity teaches your mouth; you choose to have the tongue of a crafty man.
| لِأَنَّ فَمَكَ يُذِيعُ إِثْمَكَ، وَتَخْتَارُ لِسَانَ ٱلْمُحْتَالِينَ. | ٥ |
6 Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; indeed, your own lips testify against you.
| إِنَّ فَمَكَ يَسْتَذْنِبُكَ، لَا أَنَا، وَشَفَتَاكَ تَشْهَدَانِ عَلَيْكَ. | ٦ |
7 Are you the first man that was born? Were you brought into existence before the hills?
| «أَصُوِّرْتَ أَوَّلَ ٱلنَّاسِ أَمْ أُبْدِئْتَ قَبْلَ ٱلتِّلَالِ؟ | ٧ |
8 Have you heard the secret knowledge of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
| هَلْ تَنَصَّتَّ فِي مَجْلِسِ ٱللهِ، أَوْ قَصَرْتَ ٱلْحِكْمَةَ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ؟ | ٨ |
9 What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not also in us?
| مَاذَا تَعْرِفُهُ وَلَا نَعْرِفُهُ نَحْنُ؟ وَمَاذَا تَفْهَمُ وَلَيْسَ هُوَ عِنْدَنَا؟ | ٩ |
10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men who are much older than your father.
| عِنْدَنَا ٱلشَّيْخُ وَٱلْأَشْيَبُ، أَكْبَرُ أَيَّامًا مِنْ أَبِيكَ. | ١٠ |
11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, the words that are gentle toward you?
| أَقَلِيلَةٌ عِنْدَكَ تَعْزِيَاتُ ٱللهِ، وَٱلْكَلَامُ مَعَكَ بِٱلرِّفْقِ؟ | ١١ |
12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
| «لِمَاذَا يَأْخُذُكَ قَلْبُكَ؟ وَلِمَاذَا تَخْتَلِجُ عَيْنَاكَ | ١٢ |
13 so that you turn your spirit against God and bring out such words from your mouth?
| حَتَّى تَرُدَّ عَلَى ٱللهِ وَتُخْرِجَ مِنْ فِيكَ أَقْوَالًا؟ | ١٣ |
14 What is man that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman that he should be righteous?
| مَنْ هُوَ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ حَتَّى يَزْكُوَ، أَوْ مَوْلُودُ ٱلْمَرْأَةِ حَتَّى يَتَبَرَّرَ؟ | ١٤ |
15 See, God puts no trust even in his holy ones; indeed, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
| هُوَذَا قِدِّيسُوهُ لَا يَأْتَمِنُهُمْ، وَٱلسَّمَاوَاتُ غَيْرُ طَاهِرَةٍ بِعَيْنَيْهِ، | ١٥ |
16 how much less clean is one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
| فَبِالْحَرِيِّ مَكْرُوهٌ وَفَاسِدٌ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ ٱلشَّارِبُ ٱلْإِثْمَ كَٱلْمَاءِ! | ١٦ |
17 I will show you; listen to me; I will announce to you the things I have seen,
| «أُوحِي إِلَيْكَ، ٱسْمَعْ لِي فَأُحَدِّثَ بِمَا رَأَيْتُهُ، | ١٧ |
18 the things that wise men have passed down from their fathers, the things that their ancestors did not hide.
| مَا أَخْبَرَ بِهِ حُكَمَاءُ عَنْ آبَائِهِمْ فَلَمْ يَكْتُمُوهُ. | ١٨ |
19 These were their ancestors, to whom alone the land was given, and among whom no stranger ever passed.
| ٱلَّذِينَ لَهُمْ وَحْدَهُمْ أُعْطِيَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ، وَلَمْ يَعْبُرْ بَيْنَهُمْ غَرِيبٌ. | ١٩ |
20 The wicked man twists in pain all his days, the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor to suffer.
| ٱلشِّرِّيرُ هُوَ يَتَلَوَّى كُلَّ أَيَّامِهِ، وَكُلَّ عَدَدِ ٱلسِّنِينَ ٱلْمَعْدُودَةِ لِلْعَاتِي. | ٢٠ |
21 A sound of terrors is in his ears; while he is in prosperity, the destroyer will come upon him.
| صَوْتُ رُعُوبٍ فِي أُذُنَيْهِ. فِي سَاعَةِ سَلَامٍ يَأْتِيهِ ٱلْمُخَرِّبُ. | ٢١ |
22 He does not think that he will return out of darkness; the sword waits for him.
| لَا يَأْمُلُ ٱلرُّجُوعَ مِنَ ٱلظُّلْمَةِ، وَهُوَ مُرْتَقَبٌ لِلسَّيْفِ. | ٢٢ |
23 He goes to various places for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
| تَائِهٌ هُوَ لِأَجْلِ ٱلْخُبْزِ حَيْثُمَا يَجِدْهُ، وَيَعْلَمُ أَنَّ يَوْمَ ٱلظُّلْمَةِ مُهَيَّأٌ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ. | ٢٣ |
24 Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.
| يُرْهِبُهُ ٱلضُّرُّ وَٱلضَّيْقُ. يَتَجَبَّرَانِ عَلَيْهِ كَمَلِكٍ مُسْتَعِدٍّ لِلْوَغَى. | ٢٤ |
25 Because he has reached out with his hand against God and has behaved proudly against the Almighty,
| لِأَنَّهُ مَدَّ عَلَى ٱللهِ يَدَهُ، وَعَلَى ٱلْقَدِيرِ تَجَبَّرَ | ٢٥ |
26 this wicked man runs at God with a stiff neck, with a thick shield.
| عَادِيًا عَلَيْهِ، مُتَصَلِّبُ ٱلْعُنُقِ بِأَوْقَافِ مَجَانِّهِ مُعَبَّأَةً. | ٢٦ |
27 This is true, even though he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat on his loins,
| لِأَنَّهُ قَدْ كَسَا وَجْهَهُ سَمْنًا، وَرَبَّى شَحْمًا عَلَى كِلْيَتَيْهِ، | ٢٧ |
28 and has lived in desolate cities; in houses which no man inhabits now and which were ready to become heaps.
| فَيَسْكُنُ مُدُنًا خَرِبَةً، بُيُوتًا غَيْرَ مَسْكُونَةٍ عَتِيدَةً أَنْ تَصِيرَ رُجَمًا. | ٢٨ |
29 He will not be rich; his wealth will not last and his possessions will not spread over the land.
| لَا يَسْتَغْنِي، وَلَا تَثْبُتُ ثَرْوَتُهُ، وَلَا يَمْتَدُّ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ مُقْتَنَاهُ. | ٢٩ |
30 He will not depart out of darkness; a flame will dry up his stalks; at the breath of God's mouth he will go away.
| لَا تَزُولُ عَنْهُ ٱلظُّلْمَةُ. خَرَاعِيبُهُ تُيَبِّسُهَا ٱلسُّمُومُ، وَبِنَفْخَةِ فَمِهِ يَزُولُ. | ٣٠ |
31 Let him not trust in useless things, deceiving himself; for uselessness will be his reward.
| لَا يَتَّكِلْ عَلَى ٱلسُّوءِ. يَضِلُّ. لِأَنَّ ٱلسُّوءَ يَكُونُ أُجْرَتَهُ. | ٣١ |
32 It will happen before his time should come to die; his branch will not be green.
| قَبْلَ يَوْمِهِ يُتَوَفَّى، وَسَعَفُهُ لَا يَخْضَرُّ. | ٣٢ |
33 He will drop his unripe grapes like a grapevine; he will cast off his flowers like the olive tree.
| يُسَاقِطُ كَٱلْجَفْنَةِ حِصْرِمَهُ، وَيَنْثُرُ كَٱلزَّيْتُونِ زَهْرُهُ. | ٣٣ |
34 For the company of godless people will be barren; fire will consume their tents of bribery.
| لِأَنَّ جَمَاعَةَ ٱلْفُجَّارِ عَاقِرٌ، وَٱلنَّارُ تَأْكُلُ خِيَامَ ٱلرَّشْوَةِ. | ٣٤ |
35 They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity; their womb conceives deceit.”
| حَبِلَ شَقَاوَةً وَوَلَدَ إِثْمًا، وَبَطْنُهُ أَنْشَأَ غِشًّا». | ٣٥ |
