Job 8
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
| فَأَجَابَ بِلْدَدُ الشُّوحِيُّ: | ١ |
2 “How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
| «إِلَى مَتَى تَظَلُّ تَتَكَلَّمُ بِهَذِهِ الأَقْوَالِ، فَتَخْرُجَ مِنْ فَمِكَ كَرِيحٍ شَدِيدَةٍ؟ | ٢ |
3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
| أَيُحَرِّفُ اللهُ الْقَضَاءَ، أَمْ يَعْكِسُ الْقَدِيرُ مَا هُوَ حَقٌّ؟ | ٣ |
4 If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
| إِنْ كَانَ أَبْنَاؤُكَ أَخْطَأُوا فَقَدْ أَوْقَعَ بِهِمْ جَزَاءَ مَعَاصِيهِمْ. | ٤ |
5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
| فَإِنْ أَسْرَعْتَ وَطَلَبْتَ وَجْهَ اللهِ وَتَضَرَّعْتَ إِلَى الْقَدِيرِ، | ٥ |
6 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
| وَإِنْ كُنْتَ نَقِيًّا صَالِحاً، فَإِنَّهُ حَتْماً يَلْتَفِتُ إِلَيْكَ وَيُكَافِئُكَ بِمَسْكَنِ بِرٍّ. | ٦ |
7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
| وَإِنْ تَكُنْ أُولاكَ مُتَوَاضِعَةً، فَإِنَّ آخِرَتَكَ تَكُونُ عَظِيمَةً جِدّاً. | ٧ |
8 “Please enquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
| اسْأَلِ الأَجْيَالَ الْغَابِرَةَ، وَتَأَمَّلْ مَا اخْتَبَرَهُ الآبَاءُ، | ٨ |
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
| فَإِنَّنَا قَدْ وُلِدْنَا بِالأَمْسِ الْقَرِيبِ، وَلا نَعْرِفُ شَيْئاً، لأَنَّ أَيَّامَنَا عَلَى الأَرْضِ ظِلٌّ. | ٩ |
10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
| أَلا يُعْلِمُونَكَ وَيُخْبِرُونَكَ وَيَبُثُّونَكَ مَا فِي نُفُوسِهِمْ قَائِلِينَ: | ١٠ |
11 “Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
| أَيَنْمُو الْبَرْدِيُّ حَيْثُ لَا مُسْتَنْقَعَ، أَمْ تَنْبُتُ الْحَلْفَاءُ مِنْ غَيْرِ مَاءٍ؟ | ١١ |
12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
| إِنَّهَا تَيْبَسُ قَبْلَ سَائِرِ الْعُشْبِ، وَهِيَ فِي نَضَارَتِهَا لَمْ تُقْطَعْ. | ١٢ |
13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
| هَكَذَا يَكُونُ مَصِيرُ كُلِّ مَنْ يَنْسَى اللهَ، وَهَكَذَا يَخِيبُ رَجَاءُ الْفَاجِرِ. | ١٣ |
14 whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
| يَنْهَارُ مَا يَعْتَمِدُ عَلَيْهِ، وَيُصْبِحُ مِثْلَ بَيْتِ الْعَنْكَبُوتِ. | ١٤ |
15 He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
| يَتَّكِئُ عَلَيْهِ فَيَنْهَدِمُ، وَيَتَعَلَّقُ بِهِ فَلا يَثْبُتُ. | ١٥ |
16 He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
| يَزْدَهِرُ كَشَجَرَةٍ أَمَامَ الشَّمْسِ، تَنْتَشِرُ أَغْصَانُهَا فَوْقَ بُسْتَانِهَا. | ١٦ |
17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
| تَتَشَابَكُ أُصُولُهُ حَوْلَ كَوْمَةِ الْحِجَارَةِ، وَتَلْتَفُّ حَوْلَ الصُّخُورِ. | ١٧ |
18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
| وَلَكِنْ حَالَمَا يُسْتَأْصَلُ مِنْ مَوْضِعِهِ يُنْكِرُهُ مَكَانُهُ قَائِلاً:’مَا رَأَيْتُكَ قَطُّ!‘ | ١٨ |
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.
| هَكَذَا تَكُونُ بَهْجَةُ طَرِيقِهِ. وَلَكِنْ مِنَ التُّرَابِ يَأْتِي آخَرُونَ وَيأْخُذُونَ مَكَانَهُ. | ١٩ |
20 “Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
| إِنَّ اللهَ لَا يَنْبِذُ الإِنْسَانَ الْكَامِلَ وَلا يَمُدُّ يَدَ الْعَوْنِ لِفَاعِلِي الشَّرِّ. | ٢٠ |
21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
| يَمْلأُ فَمَكَ ضَحِكاً وَشَفَتَيْكَ هُتَافاً، | ٢١ |
22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”
| عِنْدَئِذٍ يَرْتَدِي مُبْغِضُوكَ الْخِزْيَ، وَبَيْتُ الأَشْرَارِ يَنْهَارُ». | ٢٢ |
