ایوب 4
| آنگاه الیفاز تیمانی پاسخ داد: | 1 |
Then Eliphaz, from Teman, replied to Job. He said,
| ای ایوب، آیا اجازه می‌دهی چند کلمه‌ای حرف بزنم؟ چون دیگر نمی‌توانم ساکت بمانم. | 2 |
“Will you please let me say something to you? I am not [RHQ] able to remain silent [any longer].
| 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. | 3 |
In the past, you have instructed/taught many people, and you have encouraged those who were weak.
| 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].
| ولی اکنون که مصیبت به سراغ تو آمده است بی‌طاقت و پریشان شده‌ای. | 5 |
But now, when you experience disasters, you become discouraged. The disasters hit you, and you are stunned.
| آیا اطمینان تو نباید بر خداترسی‌ات باشد، و امید تو بر زندگی بی‌عیبی که داری؟ | 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!
| قدری فکر کن و ببین آیا تا به حال دیده‌ای انسانی درستکار و بی‌گناهی هلاک شود؟ | 7 |
Think about this: Do innocent people die [while they are still young] [RHQ]? Does God get rid of godly people [RHQ]? [No!]
| تجربه من نشان می‌دهد که هر چه بکاری همان را درو می‌کنی. کسانی که گناه و بدی می‌کارند همان را درو می‌کنند. | 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.
| دَمِ خدا آنها را نابود می‌کند، و آنها از بادِ غضبش تباه می‌شوند. | 9 |
They die when God angrily blows his breath on them, when he is very angry with them.
| شیر می‌غُرّد و شیر ژیان نعره می‌کشد، اما دندانهای شیران قوی خواهند شکست. | 10 |
[Even though wicked people may be very powerful like] young lions, [God] will get rid of them [MET].
| شیر نر از گرسنگی تلف می‌شود و تمام بچه‌هایش پراکنده می‌گردند. | 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].”
| سخنی در خفا به من رسید، گویی کسی در گوشم زمزمه می‌کرد. | 12 |
“I heard a message that someone came and whispered to me.
| این سخن در رویایی آشفته، هنگامی که مردم در خوابی سنگین بودند بر من آشکار گشت. | 13 |
He spoke to me at night when I was having a bad dream that disturbed/frightened me while I was fast asleep.
| ناگهان ترس وجودم را فرا گرفت و لرزه بر استخوانهایم افتاد. | 14 |
It caused me to be afraid and tremble; it caused all my bones to shake.
| روحی از برابر من گذشت و موی بر تنم راست شد! | 15 |
A ghost glided past my face and caused the hair on [on the back of] my neck to stand straight up.
| حضور روح را احساس می‌کردم، ولی نمی‌توانستم او را ببینم. سپس در آن سکوت وحشتناک این ندا به گوشم رسید: | 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,
| «آیا انسان خاکی می‌تواند در نظر خدای خالق، پاک و بی‌گناه به حساب بیاید؟ | 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]
| خدا حتی به فرشتگان آسمان نیز اعتماد ندارد و بر خادمان خود خرده می‌گیرد، | 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.
| چه برسد به آدمیانی که از خاک آفریده شده‌اند و مانند بید ناپایدارند. | 19 |
So he certainly cannot trust human beings who were made from dust and clay, who are crushed as easily as moths are crushed!
| صبح، زنده‌اند و شب، می‌میرند و برای همیشه از بین می‌روند و اثری از آنها باقی نمی‌ماند. | 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).
| طنابِ خیمۀ آنها کشیده می‌شود و خیمه فرو می‌افتد، و آنها در جهالت می‌میرند.» | 21 |
They are like [MET] tents that collapse [suddenly]: They die [suddenly] before they become wise.’”
