أيُّوب 15

١ 1 فَقَالَ أَلِيفَازُ التَّيْمَانِيُّ:

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

٢ 2 «أَلَعَلَّ الْحَكِيمَ يُجِيبُ عَنْ مَعْرِفَةٍ بَاطِلَةٍ وَيَنْفُخُ بَطْنَهُ بِرِيحٍ شَرْقِيَّةٍ،

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

٣ 3 فَيَحْتَجَّ بِكَلامٍ أَجْوَفَ وَبِأَقْوَالٍ خَرْقَاءَ؟

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

٤ 4 أَمَّا أَنْتَ فَإِنَّكَ تَطْرَحُ جَانِباً مَخَافَةَ اللهِ وَتَنْقُضُ عِبَادَتَهُ.

Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

٥ 5 كَلامُكَ يُقِرُّ بِإِثْمِكَ، وَأَنْتَ تُؤْثِرُ أُسْلُوبَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ.

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

٦ 6 فَمُكَ يَدِينُكَ، لَا أَنَا، شَفَتَاكَ تَشْهَدَانِ عَلَيْكَ.

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

٧ 7 أَلَعَلَّكَ وُلِدْتَ أَوَّلَ النَّاسِ، أَوْ كُوِّنْتَ قَبْلَ التِّلالِ؟

“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?

٨ 8 هَلْ تَنَصَّتَّ فِي مَجْلِسِ اللهِ، فَقَصَرْتَ الْحِكْمَةَ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ؟

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

٩ 9 أَيُّ شَيْءٍ تَعْرِفُهُ وَنَحْنُ نَجْهَلُهُ؟ وَأَيُّ شَيْءٍ تَفْهَمُهُ وَنَحْنُ لَا نَمْلِكُ إِدْرَاكَهُ؟

What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?

١٠ 10 رُبَّ شَيْخٍ وَأَشْيَبَ بَيْنَنَا أَكْبَرَ سِنّاً مِنْ أَبِيكَ.

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.

١١ 11 أَيَسِيرَةٌ عَلَيْكَ تَعْزِيَاتُ اللهِ؟ حَتَّى هَذِهِ الْكَلِمَاتُ الَّتِي خُوطِبْتَ بِها بِرِفْقٍ؟

Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

١٢ 12 لِمَاذَا يَسْتَهْوِيكَ قَلْبُكَ وَتَتَوَهَّجُ عَيْنَاكَ،

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

١٣ 13 حَتَّى تَنْفُثَ غَضَبَكَ ضِدَّ اللهِ، وَيَصْدُرَ عَنْ فَمِكَ مِثْلُ هَذِهِ الأَقْوَالِ؟

that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

١٤ 14 مَنْ هُوَ الإِنْسَانُ حَتَّى يَزْكُوَ أَوْ مَوْلُودُ الْمَرْأَةِ حَتَّى يَتَبَرَّرَ؟

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

١٥ 15 فَإِنْ كَانَ اللهُ لَا يَأْتَمِنُ قِدِّيسِيهِ، وَالسَّمَاوَاتُ غَيْرَ طَاهِرَةٍ لَدَيْهِ،

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

١٦ 16 فَكَمْ بِالأَحْرَى يَكُونُ الإِنْسَانُ الشَّارِبُ الإِثْمَ كَالْمَاءِ مَكْرُوهاً وَفَاسِداً!

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

١٧ 17 دَعْنِي أُبَيِّنُ لَكَ، وَاسْمَعْ لِي لأُحَدِّثَكَ بِمَا رَأَيْتُهُ،

“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare

١٨ 18 وَبِمَا أَخْبَرَ بِهِ حُكَمَاءُ عَنْ آبَائِهِمْ وَلَمْ يَكْتُمُوهُ،

(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

١٩ 19 الَّذِينَ لَهُمْ وَحْدَهُمْ وُهِبَتِ الأَرْضُ وَلَمْ يَدْخُلْ بَيْنَهُمْ غَرِيبٌ.

to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):

٢٠ 20 يَتَلَوَّى الشِّرِّيرُ أَلَماً كُلَّ أَيَّامِ حَيَاتِهِ، وَمَعْدُودَةٌ هِيَ سِنُو الْجَائِرِ.

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

٢١ 21 يَضِجُّ صَوْتٌ مُرْعِبٌ فِي أُذُنَيْهِ، وَفِي أَوَانِ السَّلامِ يُفَاجِئُهُ الْمُخَرِّبُ.

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

٢٢ 22 لَا يَأْمُلُ الرُّجُوعَ مِنَ الظُّلُمَاتِ، وَمَصِيرُهُ الْهَلاكُ بِالسَّيْفِ.

He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

٢٣ 23 يَهِيمُ بَحْثاً عَنْ لُقْمَةِ الْعَيْشِ، وَهُوَ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّ يَوْمَ الظُّلْمَةِ آتٍ وَشِيكاً.

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

٢٤ 24 يُرْهِبُهُ الضِّيقُ وَالضَّنْكُ، وَيَطْغَيَانِ عَلَيْهِ كَمَلِكٍ مُتَأَهِّبٍ لِلْحَرْبِ.

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

٢٥ 25 لأَنَّهُ هَزَّ قَبْضَتَهُ مُتَحَدِّياً اللهَ، وَعَلَى الْقَدِيرِ يَتَجَبَّرُ،

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,

٢٦ 26 وَأَغَارَ عَلَيْهِ بِعِنَادٍ مُتَصَلِّفٍ، بِمَجَانٍّ غَلِيظَةٍ مَتِينَةٍ.

he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,

٢٧ 27 وَمَعَ أَنَّهُ كَسَا وَجْهَهُ سَمْناً، وَغَشَّى الشَّحْمُ كُلْيَتَيْهِ.

because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.

٢٨ 28 فَإِنَّهُ يُقِيمُ فِي مُدُنٍ خَرِبَةٍ وَبُيُوتٍ مَهْجُورَةٍ عَتِيدَةٍ أَنْ تُصْبِحَ رُكَاماً.

He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

٢٩ 29 يَفْقِدُ غِنَاهُ، وَتَتَبَخَّرُ ثَرْوَتُهُ، وَلا يَثْبُتُ لَهُ فِي الأَرْضِ مُقْتَنىً.

He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.

٣٠ 30 تَكْتَنِفُهُ دَائِماً الظُّلْمَةُ، وتُيَبِّسُ النَّارُ أَغْصَانَهُ، وَتُزِيلُهُ نَفْخَةٌ مِنْ فَمِ الرَّبِّ.

He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.

٣١ 31 لَا يَخْدَعَنَّ نَفْسَهُ بِاتِّكَالِهِ عَلَى السُّوءِ، لأَنَّ السُّوءَ يَكُونُ جَزَاءَهُ.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.

٣٢ 32 يَسْتَوْفِيهِ كَامِلاً قَبْلَ يَوْمِهِ، وَتَكُونُ (حَيَاتُهُ) كَسُعُفٍ يَابِسَةٍ.

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

٣٣ 33 وَكَكَرْمَةٍ تَسَاقَطَتْ عَنَاقِيدُ حِصْرِمِهَا، وَتَنَاثَرَ زَهْرُهَا كَالزَّيْتُونِ،

He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.

٣٤ 34 لأَنَّ جَمَاعَةَ الْفُجَّارِ عَقِيمُونَ، وَالنَّارُ تَلْتَهِمُ خِيَامَ الْمُرْتَشِينَ.

For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

٣٥ 35 حَبِلُوا شَقَاوَةً وَأَنْجَبُوا إِثْماً، وَوَلَدَتْ بُطُونُهُمْ غِشّاً».

They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”