< اَلْجَامِعَةِ 8 >
مَنْ كَٱلْحَكِيمِ؟ وَمَنْ يَفْهَمُ تَفْسِيرَ أَمْرٍ؟ حِكْمَةُ ٱلْإِنْسَانِ تُنِيرُ وَجْهَهُ، وَصَلَابَةُ وَجْهِهِ تَتَغَيَّرُ. | ١ 1 |
Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
أَنَا أَقُولُ: ٱحْفَظْ أَمْرَ ٱلْمَلِكِ، وَذَاكَ بِسَبَبِ يَمِينِ ٱللهِ. | ٢ 2 |
I [counsel thee], Keep the king’s command, and that in regard of the oath of God.
لَا تَعْجَلْ إِلَى ٱلذَّهَابِ مِنْ وَجْهِهِ. لَا تَقِفْ فِي أَمْرٍ شَاقٍّ، لِأَنَّهُ يَفْعَلُ كُلَّ مَا شَاءَ. | ٣ 3 |
Be not hasty to go out of his presence; persist not in an evil thing: for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
حَيْثُ تَكُونُ كَلِمَةُ ٱلْمَلِكِ فَهُنَاكَ سُلْطَانٌ. وَمَنْ يَقُولُ لَهُ: «مَاذَا تَفْعَلُ؟». | ٤ 4 |
For the king’s word [hath] power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
حَافِظُ ٱلْوَصِيَّةِ لَا يَشْعُرُ بِأَمْرٍ شَاقٍّ، وَقَلْبُ ٱلْحَكِيمِ يَعْرِفُ ٱلْوَقْتَ وَٱلْحُكْمَ. | ٥ 5 |
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man’s heart discerneth time and judgment:
لِأَنَّ لِكُلِّ أَمْرٍ وَقْتًا وَحُكْمًا. لِأَنَّ شَرَّ ٱلْإِنْسَانِ عَظِيمٌ عَلَيْهِ، | ٦ 6 |
for to every purpose there is a time and judgment; because the misery of man is great upon him:
لِأَنَّهُ لَا يَعْلَمُ مَا سَيَكُونُ. لِأَنَّهُ مَنْ يُخْبِرُهُ كَيْفَ يَكُونُ؟ | ٧ 7 |
for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
لَيْسَ لِإِنْسَانٍ سُلْطَانٌ عَلَى ٱلرُّوحِ لِيُمْسِكَ ٱلرُّوحَ، وَلَا سُلْطَانٌ عَلَى يَوْمِ ٱلْمَوْتِ، وَلَا تَخْلِيَةٌ فِي ٱلْحَرْبِ، وَلَا يُنَجِّي ٱلشَّرُّ أَصْحَابَهُ. | ٨ 8 |
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.
كُلُّ هَذَا رَأَيْتُهُ إِذْ وَجَّهْتُ قَلْبِي لِكُلِّ عَمَلٍ عُمِلَ تَحْتَ ٱلشَّمْسِ، وَقْتَمَا يَتَسَلَّطُ إِنْسَانٌ عَلَى إِنْسَانٍ لِضَرَرِ نَفْسِهِ. | ٩ 9 |
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.
وَهَكَذَا رَأَيْتُ أَشْرَارًا يُدْفَنُونَ وَضُمُّوا، وَٱلَّذِينَ عَمِلُوا بِٱلْحَقِّ ذَهَبُوا مِنْ مَكَانِ ٱلْقُدْسِ وَنُسُوا فِي ٱلْمَدِينَةِ. هَذَا أَيْضًا بَاطِلٌ. | ١٠ 10 |
So I saw the wicked buried, and they came [to the grave]; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.
لِأَنَّ ٱلْقَضَاءَ عَلَى ٱلْعَمَلِ ٱلرَّدِيءِ لَا يُجْرَى سَرِيعًا، فَلِذَلِكَ قَدِ ٱمْتَلَأَ قَلْبُ بَنِي ٱلْبَشَرِ فِيهِمْ لِفَعْلِ ٱلشَّرِّ. | ١١ 11 |
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
اَلْخَاطِئُ وَإِنْ عَمِلَ شَرًّا مِئَةَ مَرَّةٍ وَطَالَتْ أَيَّامُهُ، إِلَّا أَنِّي أَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ يَكُونُ خَيْرٌ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ ٱللهَ ٱلَّذِينَ يَخَافُونَ قُدَّامَهُ. | ١٢ 12 |
Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his [days], yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before him:
وَلَا يَكُونُ خَيْرٌ لِلشِّرِّيرِ، وَكَٱلظِّلِّ لَا يُطِيلُ أَيَّامَهُ لِأَنَّهُ لَا يَخْشَى قُدَّامَ ٱللهِ. | ١٣ 13 |
but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
يُوجَدُ بَاطِلٌ يُجْرَى عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ: أَنْ يُوجَدَ صِدِّيقُونَ يُصِيبُهُمْ مِثْلَ عَمَلِ ٱلْأَشْرَارِ، وَيُوجَدُ أَشْرَارٌ يُصِيبُهُمْ مِثْلَ عَمَلِ ٱلصِّدِّيقِينَ. فَقُلْتُ: إِنَّ هَذَا أَيْضًا بَاطِلٌ. | ١٤ 14 |
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
فَمَدَحْتُ ٱلْفَرَحَ، لِأَنَّهُ لَيْسَ لِلْإِنْسَانِ خَيْرٌ تَحْتَ ٱلشَّمْسِ، إِلَّا أَنْ يَأْكُلَ وَيَشْرَبَ وَيَفْرَحَ، وَهَذَا يَبْقَى لَهُ فِي تَعَبِهِ مُدَّةَ أَيَّامِ حَيَاتِهِ ٱلَّتِي يُعْطِيهِ ٱللهُ إِيَّاهَا تَحْتَ ٱلشَّمْسِ. | ١٥ 15 |
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor [all] the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.
لَمَّا وَجَّهْتُ قَلْبِي لِأَعْرِفَ ٱلْحِكْمَةَ، وَأَنْظُرَ ٱلْعَمَلَ ٱلَّذِي عُمِلَ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ، وَأَنَّهُ نَهَارًا وَلَيْلًا لَا يَرَى ٱلنَّوْمَ بِعَيْنَيْهِ، | ١٦ 16 |
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),
رَأَيْتُ كُلَّ عَمَلِ ٱللهِ أَنَّ ٱلْإِنْسَانَ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ يَجِدَ ٱلْعَمَلَ ٱلَّذِي عُمِلَ تَحْتَ ٱلشَّمْسِ. مَهْمَا تَعِبَ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ فِي ٱلطَّلَبِ فَلَا يَجِدُهُ، وَٱلْحَكِيمُ أَيْضًا، وَإِنْ قَالَ بِمَعْرِفَتِهِ، لَا يَقْدِرُ أَنْ يَجِدَهُ. | ١٧ 17 |
then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.