< أَيُّوبَ 9 >
فَأَجَابَ أَيُّوبُ وَقَالَ: | ١ 1 |
Then Job answered and said,
«صَحِيحٌ. قَدْ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّهُ كَذَا، فَكَيْفَ يَتَبَرَّرُ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ عِنْدَ ٱللهِ؟ | ٢ 2 |
I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?
إِنْ شَاءَ أَنْ يُحَاجَّهُ، لَا يُجِيبُهُ عَنْ وَاحِدٍ مِنْ أَلْفٍ. | ٣ 3 |
For if he would enter into judgment with him, [God] would not listen to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.
هُوَ حَكِيمُ ٱلْقَلْبِ وَشَدِيدُ ٱلْقُوَّةِ. مَنْ تَصَلَّبَ عَلَيْهِ فَسَلِمَ؟ | ٤ 4 |
For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?
ٱلْمُزَحْزِحُ ٱلْجِبَالَ وَلَا تَعْلَمُ، ٱلَّذِي يَقْلِبُهَا فِي غَضَبِهِ. | ٥ 5 |
Who wears out the mountains, and [men] know it not: who overturns them in anger.
ٱلْمُزَعْزِعُ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِنْ مَقَرِّهَا، فَتَتَزَلْزَلُ أَعْمِدَتُهَا. | ٦ 6 |
Who shakes the [earth] under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.
ٱلْآمِرُ ٱلشَّمْسَ فَلَا تُشْرِقُ، وَيَخْتِمُ عَلَى ٱلنُّجُومِ. | ٧ 7 |
Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars.
ٱلْبَاسِطُ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَحْدَهُ، وَٱلْمَاشِي عَلَى أَعَالِي ٱلْبَحْرِ. | ٨ 8 |
Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground.
صَانِعُ ٱلنَّعْشِ وَٱلْجَبَّارِ وَٱلثُّرَيَّا وَمَخَادِعِ ٱلْجَنُوبِ. | ٩ 9 |
Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.
فَاعِلُ عَظَائِمَ لَا تُفْحَصُ، وَعَجَائِبَ لَا تُعَدُّ. | ١٠ 10 |
Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.
«هُوَذَا يَمُرُّ عَلَيَّ وَلَا أَرَاهُ، وَيَجْتَازُ فَلَا أَشْعُرُ بِهِ. | ١١ 11 |
If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: if he should pass by me, neither thus have I known [it].
إِذَا خَطَفَ فَمَنْ يَرُدُّهُ؟ وَمَنْ يَقُولُ لَهُ: مَاذَا تَفْعَلُ؟ | ١٢ 12 |
If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What have you done?
ٱللهُ لَا يَرُدُّ غَضَبَهُ. يَنْحَنِي تَحْتَهُ أَعْوَانُ رَهَبَ. | ١٣ 13 |
For [if] he has turned away [his] anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.
كَمْ بِٱلْأَقَلِّ أَنَا أُجَاوِبُهُ وَأَخْتَارُ كَلَامِي مَعَهُ؟ | ١٤ 14 |
Oh then that he would listen to me, or judge my cause.
لِأَنِّي وَإِنْ تَبَرَّرْتُ لَا أُجَاوِبُ، بَلْ أَسْتَرْحِمُ دَيَّانِي. | ١٥ 15 |
For though I be righteous, he will not listen to me: I will entreat his judgment.
لَوْ دَعَوْتُ فَٱسْتَجَابَ لِي، لَمَا آمَنْتُ بِأَنَّهُ سَمِعَ صَوْتِي. | ١٦ 16 |
And if I should call and he should not listen, I can’t believe that he has listened to my voice.
ذَاكَ ٱلَّذِي يَسْحَقُنِي بِٱلْعَاصِفَةِ، وَيُكْثِرُ جُرُوحِي بِلَا سَبَبٍ. | ١٧ 17 |
Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause.
لَا يَدَعُنِي آخُذُ نَفَسِي، وَلَكِنْ يُشْبِعُنِي مَرَائِرَ. | ١٨ 18 |
For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.
إِنْ كَانَ مِنْ جِهَةِ قُوَّةِ ٱلْقَوِيِّ، يَقُولُ: هَأَنَذَا. وَإِنْ كَانَ مِنْ جِهَةِ ٱلْقَضَاءِ يَقُولُ: مَنْ يُحَاكِمُنِي؟ | ١٩ 19 |
For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment?
إِنْ تَبَرَّرْتُ يَحْكُمُ عَلَيَّ فَمِي، وَإِنْ كُنْتُ كَامِلًا يَسْتَذْنِبُنِي. | ٢٠ 20 |
For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.
«كَامِلٌ أَنَا. لَا أُبَالِي بِنَفْسِي. رَذَلْتُ حَيَاتِي. | ٢١ 21 |
For even if I have sinned, I know it not [in] my soul: but my life is taken away.
هِيَ وَاحِدَةٌ. لِذَلِكَ قُلْتُ: إِنَّ ٱلْكَامِلَ وَٱلشِّرِّيرَ هُوَ يُفْنِيهِمَا. | ٢٢ 22 |
Therefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.
إِذَا قَتَلَ ٱلسَّوْطُ بَغْتَةً، يَسْتَهْزِئُ بِتَجْرِبَةِ ٱلْأَبْرِيَاءِ. | ٢٣ 23 |
For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.
ٱلْأَرْضُ مُسَلَّمَةٌ لِيَدِ ٱلشِّرِّيرِ. يُغَشِّي وُجُوهَ قُضَاتِهَا. وَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ هُوَ، فَإِذًا مَنْ؟ | ٢٤ 24 |
For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous [man]: he covers the faces of the judges [of the earth]: but if it be not he, who is it?
أَيَّامِي أَسْرَعُ مِنْ عَدَّاءٍ، تَفِرُّ وَلَا تَرَى خَيْرًا. | ٢٥ 25 |
But my life is swifter than a post: [my days] have fled away, and they knew it not.
تَمُرُّ مَعَ سُفُنِ ٱلْبَرْدِيِّ. كَنَسْرٍ يَنْقَضُّ إِلَى قَنَصِهِ. | ٢٦ 26 |
Or again, is there a trace of [their] path [left] by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks [its] prey?
إِنْ قُلْتُ: أَنْسَى كُرْبَتِي، أُطْلِقُ وَجْهِي وَأَتَبَلَّجُ، | ٢٧ 27 |
And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;
أَخَافُ مِنْ كُلِّ أَوْجَاعِي عَالِمًا أَنَّكَ لَا تُبَرِّئُنِي. | ٢٨ 28 |
I quake in all my limbs, for I know that you will not leave me alone [as] innocent.
أَنَا مُسْتَذْنَبٌ، فَلِمَاذَا أَتْعَبُ عَبَثًا؟ | ٢٩ 29 |
But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?
وَلَوِ ٱغْتَسَلْتُ فِي ٱلثَّلْجِ، وَنَظَّفْتُ يَدَيَّ بِٱلْإِشْنَانِ، | ٣٠ 30 |
For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,
فَإِنَّكَ فِي ٱلنَّقْعِ تَغْمِسُنِي حَتَّى تَكْرَهَنِي ثِيَابِي. | ٣١ 31 |
you had thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.
لِأَنَّهُ لَيْسَ هُوَ إِنْسَانًا مِثْلِي فَأُجَاوِبَهُ، فَنَأْتِي جَمِيعًا إِلَى ٱلْمُحَاكَمَةِ. | ٣٢ 32 |
For you are not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.
لَيْسَ بَيْنَنَا مُصَالِحٌ يَضَعُ يَدَهُ عَلَى كِلَيْنَا. | ٣٣ 33 |
Would that [he] our mediator were [present], and a reprover, and one who should hear [the cause] between both.
لِيَرْفَعْ عَنِّي عَصَاهُ وَلَا يَبْغَتْنِي رُعْبُهُ. | ٣٤ 34 |
Let him remove [his] rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
إِذًا أَتَكَلَّمُ وَلَا أَخَافُهُ، لِأَنِّي لَسْتُ هَكَذَا عِنْدَ نَفْسِي. | ٣٥ 35 |
so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious [of guilt].