أَيُّوبَ 9

١ 1 فَأَجَابَ أَيُّوبُ وَقَالَ:

Then Job answered and said,

٢ 2 «صَحِيحٌ. قَدْ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّهُ كَذَا، فَكَيْفَ يَتَبَرَّرُ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ عِنْدَ ٱللهِ؟

I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?

٣ 3 إِنْ شَاءَ أَنْ يُحَاجَّهُ، لَا يُجِيبُهُ عَنْ وَاحِدٍ مِنْ أَلْفٍ.

For if he would enter into judgment with him, [God] would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.

٤ 4 هُوَ حَكِيمُ ٱلْقَلْبِ وَشَدِيدُ ٱلْقُوَّةِ. مَنْ تَصَلَّبَ عَلَيْهِ فَسَلِمَ؟

For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?

٥ 5 ٱلْمُزَحْزِحُ ٱلْجِبَالَ وَلَا تَعْلَمُ، ٱلَّذِي يَقْلِبُهَا فِي غَضَبِهِ.

Who wears out the mountains, and [men] know it not: who overturns them in anger.

٦ 6 ٱلْمُزَعْزِعُ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِنْ مَقَرِّهَا، فَتَتَزَلْزَلُ أَعْمِدَتُهَا.

Who shakes the [earth] under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.

٧ 7 ٱلْآمِرُ ٱلشَّمْسَ فَلَا تُشْرِقُ، وَيَخْتِمُ عَلَى ٱلنُّجُومِ.

Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars.

٨ 8 ٱلْبَاسِطُ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَحْدَهُ، وَٱلْمَاشِي عَلَى أَعَالِي ٱلْبَحْرِ.

Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground.

٩ 9 صَانِعُ ٱلنَّعْشِ وَٱلْجَبَّارِ وَٱلثُّرَيَّا وَمَخَادِعِ ٱلْجَنُوبِ.

Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.

١٠ 10 فَاعِلُ عَظَائِمَ لَا تُفْحَصُ، وَعَجَائِبَ لَا تُعَدُّ.

Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.

١١ 11 «هُوَذَا يَمُرُّ عَلَيَّ وَلَا أَرَاهُ، وَيَجْتَازُ فَلَا أَشْعُرُ بِهِ.

If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: if he should pass by me, neither thus have I known [it].

١٢ 12 إِذَا خَطَفَ فَمَنْ يَرُدُّهُ؟ وَمَنْ يَقُولُ لَهُ: مَاذَا تَفْعَلُ؟

If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?

١٣ 13 ٱللهُ لَا يَرُدُّ غَضَبَهُ. يَنْحَنِي تَحْتَهُ أَعْوَانُ رَهَبَ.

For [if] he has turned away [his] anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.

١٤ 14 كَمْ بِٱلْأَقَلِّ أَنَا أُجَاوِبُهُ وَأَخْتَارُ كَلَامِي مَعَهُ؟

Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.

١٥ 15 لِأَنِّي وَإِنْ تَبَرَّرْتُ لَا أُجَاوِبُ، بَلْ أَسْتَرْحِمُ دَيَّانِي.

For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me: I will intreat his judgment.

١٦ 16 لَوْ دَعَوْتُ فَٱسْتَجَابَ لِي، لَمَا آمَنْتُ بِأَنَّهُ سَمِعَ صَوْتِي.

And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.

١٧ 17 ذَاكَ ٱلَّذِي يَسْحَقُنِي بِٱلْعَاصِفَةِ، وَيُكْثِرُ جُرُوحِي بِلَا سَبَبٍ.

Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause.

١٨ 18 لَا يَدَعُنِي آخُذُ نَفَسِي، وَلَكِنْ يُشْبِعُنِي مَرَائِرَ.

For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.

١٩ 19 إِنْ كَانَ مِنْ جِهَةِ قُوَّةِ ٱلْقَوِيِّ، يَقُولُ: هَأَنَذَا. وَإِنْ كَانَ مِنْ جِهَةِ ٱلْقَضَاءِ يَقُولُ: مَنْ يُحَاكِمُنِي؟

For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment?

٢٠ 20 إِنْ تَبَرَّرْتُ يَحْكُمُ عَلَيَّ فَمِي، وَإِنْ كُنْتُ كَامِلًا يَسْتَذْنِبُنِي.

For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.

٢١ 21 «كَامِلٌ أَنَا. لَا أُبَالِي بِنَفْسِي. رَذَلْتُ حَيَاتِي.

For even if I have sinned, I know it not [in] my soul: but my life is taken away.

٢٢ 22 هِيَ وَاحِدَةٌ. لِذَلِكَ قُلْتُ: إِنَّ ٱلْكَامِلَ وَٱلشِّرِّيرَ هُوَ يُفْنِيهِمَا.

Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.

٢٣ 23 إِذَا قَتَلَ ٱلسَّوْطُ بَغْتَةً، يَسْتَهْزِئُ بِتَجْرِبَةِ ٱلْأَبْرِيَاءِ.

For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.

٢٤ 24 ٱلْأَرْضُ مُسَلَّمَةٌ لِيَدِ ٱلشِّرِّيرِ. يُغَشِّي وُجُوهَ قُضَاتِهَا. وَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ هُوَ، فَإِذًا مَنْ؟

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?

٢٥ 25 أَيَّامِي أَسْرَعُ مِنْ عَدَّاءٍ، تَفِرُّ وَلَا تَرَى خَيْرًا.

But my life is swifter than a post: [my days] have fled away, and they knew it not.

٢٦ 26 تَمُرُّ مَعَ سُفُنِ ٱلْبَرْدِيِّ. كَنَسْرٍ يَنْقَضُّ إِلَى قَنَصِهِ.

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?

٢٧ 27 إِنْ قُلْتُ: أَنْسَى كُرْبَتِي، أُطْلِقُ وَجْهِي وَأَتَبَلَّجُ،

And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;

٢٨ 28 أَخَافُ مِنْ كُلِّ أَوْجَاعِي عَالِمًا أَنَّكَ لَا تُبَرِّئُنِي.

I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone [as] innocent.

٢٩ 29 أَنَا مُسْتَذْنَبٌ، فَلِمَاذَا أَتْعَبُ عَبَثًا؟

But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?

٣٠ 30 وَلَوِ ٱغْتَسَلْتُ فِي ٱلثَّلْجِ، وَنَظَّفْتُ يَدَيَّ بِٱلْإِشْنَانِ،

For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,

٣١ 31 فَإِنَّكَ فِي ٱلنَّقْعِ تَغْمِسُنِي حَتَّى تَكْرَهَنِي ثِيَابِي.

thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.

٣٢ 32 لِأَنَّهُ لَيْسَ هُوَ إِنْسَانًا مِثْلِي فَأُجَاوِبَهُ، فَنَأْتِي جَمِيعًا إِلَى ٱلْمُحَاكَمَةِ.

For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.

٣٣ 33 لَيْسَ بَيْنَنَا مُصَالِحٌ يَضَعُ يَدَهُ عَلَى كِلَيْنَا.

Would that [he] our mediator were [present], and a reprover, and one who should hear [the cause] between both.

٣٤ 34 لِيَرْفَعْ عَنِّي عَصَاهُ وَلَا يَبْغَتْنِي رُعْبُهُ.

Let him remove [his] rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

٣٥ 35 إِذًا أَتَكَلَّمُ وَلَا أَخَافُهُ، لِأَنِّي لَسْتُ هَكَذَا عِنْدَ نَفْسِي.

so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious [of guilt].