Job 38
1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind,
| ثُمَّ قَالَ الرَّبُّ لأَيُّوبَ مِنَ الْعَاصِفَةِ: | ١ |
2 “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
| «مَنْ ذَا الَّذِي يُظْلِمُ الْقَضَاءَ بِكَلامٍ مُجَرَّدٍ مِنَ الْمَعْرِفَةِ؟ | ٢ |
3 Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!
| اشْدُدْ حَقَوَيْكَ كَرَجُلٍ لأَسْأَلَكَ فَتُجِيبَنِي | ٣ |
4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
| أَيْنَ كُنْتَ عِنْدَمَا أَسَّسْتُ الأَرْضَ؟ أَخْبِرْنِي إِنْ كُنْتَ ذَا حِكْمَةٍ. | ٤ |
5 Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
| مَنْ حَدَّدَ مَقَايِيسَهَا، إِنْ كُنْتَ حَقّاً تَعْرِفُ؟ أَوْ مَنْ مَدَّ عَلَيْهَا خَيْطَ الْقِيَاسِ؟ | ٥ |
6 What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
| عَلَى أَيِّ شَيْءٍ اسْتَقَرَّتْ قَوَاعِدُهَا؟ وَمَنْ وَضَعَ حَجَرَ زَاوِيَتِهَا؟ | ٦ |
7 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
| بَيْنَمَا كَانَتْ كَوَاكِبُ السَّمَاءِ تَتَرَنَّمُ مَعاً وَمَلائِكَةُ اللهِ تَهْتِفُ بِفَرَحٍ. | ٧ |
8 “Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
| مَنْ حَجَزَ الْبَحْرَ بِبَوَّابَاتٍ، عِنْدَمَا انْدَفَقَ مِنْ رَحِمِ الأَرْضِ، | ٨ |
9 when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
| حِينَ جَعَلْتُ السُّحُبَ لِبَاساً لَهُ وَالظُّلْمَةَ قِمَاطَهُ، | ٩ |
10 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
| عِنْدَمَا عَيَّنْتُ لَهُ حُدُوداً، وَأَثْبَتُّ بَوَّابَاتِهِ وَمَغَالِيقَهُ فِي مَوَاضِعِهَا، | ١٠ |
11 and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
| وَقُلْتُ لَهُ: إِلَى هُنَا تُخُومُكَ فَلا تَتَعَدَّاهَا، وَهُنَا يَتَوَقَّفُ عُتُوُّ أَمْوَاجِكَ؟ | ١١ |
12 “Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,
| هَلْ أَمَرْتَ مَرَّةً الصُّبْحَ فِي أَيَّامِكَ، وَأَرَيْتَ الْفَجْرَ مَوْضِعَهُ، | ١٢ |
13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
| لِيَقْبِضَ عَلَى أَكْنَافِ الأَرْضِ وَيَنْفُضَ الأَشْرَارَ مِنْهَا؟ | ١٣ |
14 It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
| تَتَشَكَّلُ كَطِينٍ تَحْتَ الْخَاتَمِ، وَتَبْدُو مَعَالِمُهَا كَمَعَالِمِ الرِّدَاءِ. | ١٤ |
15 From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
| يَمْتَنِعُ النُّورُ عَنِ الأَشْرَارِ، وَتَتَحَطَّمُ ذِرَاعُهُمُ الْمُرْتَفِعَةُ. | ١٥ |
16 “Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
| هَلْ غُصْتَ إِلَى يَنَابِيعِ الْبَحْرِ، أَمْ دَلَفْتَ إِلَى مَقَاصِيرِ اللُّجَجِ؟ | ١٦ |
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
| هَلِ اطَّلَعْتَ عَلَى أَبْوَابِ الْمَنِيَّةِ، أَمْ رَأَيْتَ بَوَّابَاتِ ظِلالِ الْمَوْتِ؟ | ١٧ |
18 Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
| هَلْ أَحَطْتَ بِعَرْضِ الأَرْضِ؟ أَخْبِرْنِي إِنْ كُنْتَ بِكُلِّ هَذَا عَلِيماً. | ١٨ |
19 “What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
| أَيْنَ الطَّرِيقُ إِلَى مَقَرِّ النُّورِ، وَأَيْنَ مُسْتَقَرُّ الظُّلْمَةِ؟ | ١٩ |
20 that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
| حَتَّى تَقُودَهَا إِلَى تُخُومِهَا وَتَعْرِفَ سُبُلَ مَسْكَنِهَا؟ | ٢٠ |
21 Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
| حَقّاً أَنْتَ تَعْرِفُهَا لأَنَّكَ آنَئِذٍ كُنْتَ قَدْ وُلِدْتَ وَعِشْتَ أَيَّاماً طَوِيلَةً! | ٢١ |
22 Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
| هَلْ دَخَلْتَ إِلَى مَخَازِنِ الثَّلْجِ، أَمْ رَأَيْتَ خَزَائِنَ الْبَرَدِ، | ٢٢ |
23 which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
| الَّتِي ادَّخَرْتُهَا لأَوْقَاتِ الضِّيقِ، لِيَوْمِ الْمَعْرَكَةِ وَالْحَرْبِ؟ | ٢٣ |
24 By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
| مَا هُوَ السَّبِيلُ إِلَى مَوْضِعِ انْتِشَارِ النُّورِ، أَوْ أَيْنَ تَتَوَزَّعُ الرِّيحُ الشَّرْقِيَّةُ عَلَى الأَرْضِ؟ | ٢٤ |
25 Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm,
| مَنْ حَفَرَ قَنَوَاتٍ لِسُيُولِ الْمَطَرِ، وَمَمَرّاً لِلصَّوَاعِقِ، | ٢٥ |
26 to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
| لِيُمْطِرَ عَلَى أَرْضٍ مُقْفِرَةٍ لَا إِنْسَانَ فِيهَا، | ٢٦ |
27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?
| لِيُرْوِيَ الأَرْضَ الْخَرِبَةَ، وَلِيَسْتَنْبِتَ الأَرْضَ عُشْباً؟ | ٢٧ |
28 Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
| هَلْ لِلْمَطَرِ أَبٌ؟ وَمَنْ أَنْجَبَ قَطَرَاتِ النَّدَى؟ | ٢٨ |
29 Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?
| وَمِنْ أَيِّ أَحْشَاءٍ خَرَجَ الْجَمَدُ، وَمَنْ وَلَدَ صَقِيعَ السَّمَاءِ؟ | ٢٩ |
30 The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
| تَتَجَلَّدُ الْمِيَاهُ كَحِجَارَةٍ وَيَتَجَمَّدُ وَجْهُ الْغَمْرِ. | ٣٠ |
31 “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
| هَلْ تَرْبِطُ سَلاسِلَ الثُّرَيَّا، أَمْ تَفُكُّ عُقَدَ الْجَوْزَاءِ؟ | ٣١ |
32 Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
| هَلْ تَهْدِي كَوَاكِبَ الْمَنَازِلِ فِي فُصُولِهَا، أَمْ تَهْدِي النَّعْشَ مَعَ بِنَاتِهِ؟ | ٣٢ |
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
| هَلْ تَعْرِفُ أَحْكَامَ السَّمَاوَاتِ، أَمْ أَسَّسْتَ سُلْطَتَهَا عَلَى الأَرْضِ؟ | ٣٣ |
34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
| هَلْ تَرْفَعُ صَوْتَكَ آمِراً الْغَمَامَ فَيَغْمُرَكَ فَيْضُ الْمِيَاهِ؟ | ٣٤ |
35 Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
| هَلْ فِي وُسْعِكَ أَنْ تُطْلِقَ الْبُرُوقَ فَتَمْضِيَ وَتَقُولَ لَكَ: هَا نَحْنُ طَوْعَ أَمْرِكَ؟ | ٣٥ |
36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
| مَنْ أَضْفَى عَلَى الْغُيُومِ حِكْمَةً وَأَنْعَمَ عَلَى الضَّبَابِ بِالْفَهْمِ؟ | ٣٦ |
37 Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
| مَنْ لَهُ الْحِكْمَةُ لِيُحْصِيَ النُّجُومَ، وَمَنْ يَصُبُّ الْمَاءَ مِنْ مَيَازِيبِ السَّمَاءِ، | ٣٧ |
38 when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?
| حِينَ يَتَلَبَّدُ التُّرَابُ وَتَتَمَاسَكُ كُتَلُ الطِّينِ؟ | ٣٨ |
39 “Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
| هَلْ تَصْطَادُ الْفَرِيسَةَ لِلَّبُؤَةِ، أَمْ تُشْبِعُ جُوعَ الأَشْبَالِ، | ٣٩ |
40 when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
| حِينَ تَتَرَبَّصُ فِي الْعَرَائِنِ وَتَكْمُنُ فِي أَوْجَارِهَا؟ | ٤٠ |
41 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
| مَنْ يُزَوِّدُ الْغُرَابَ بِصَيْدِهِ إِذْ تَنْعَبُ فِرَاخُهُ مُسْتَغِيثَةً بِاللهِ، وَتَهِيمُ لاِفْتِقَارِهَا إِلَى الْقُوتِ؟ | ٤١ |
