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فَأَجَابَ أَلِيفَازُ ٱلتَّيْمَانِيُّ وَقَالَ: ١ 1
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
«أَلَعَلَّ ٱلْحَكِيمَ يُجِيبُ عَنْ مَعْرِفَةٍ بَاطِلَةٍ، وَيَمْلَأُ بَطْنَهُ مِنْ رِيحٍ شَرْقِيَّةٍ، ٢ 2
“Should a wise man answer with useless knowledge and fill himself with the east wind?
فَيَحْتَجَّ بِكَلَامٍ لَا يُفِيدُ، وَبِأَحَادِيثَ لَا يَنْتَفِعُ بِهَا؟ ٣ 3
Should he reason with unprofitable talk or with speeches with which he can do no good?
أَمَّا أَنْتَ فَتُنَافِي ٱلْمَخَافَةَ، وَتُنَاقِضُ ٱلتَّقْوَى لَدَى ٱللهِ. ٤ 4
Indeed, you diminish respect for God; you obstruct devotion to him,
لِأَنَّ فَمَكَ يُذِيعُ إِثْمَكَ، وَتَخْتَارُ لِسَانَ ٱلْمُحْتَالِينَ. ٥ 5
for your iniquity teaches your mouth; you choose to have the tongue of a crafty man.
إِنَّ فَمَكَ يَسْتَذْنِبُكَ، لَا أَنَا، وَشَفَتَاكَ تَشْهَدَانِ عَلَيْكَ. ٦ 6
Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; indeed, your own lips testify against you.
«أَصُوِّرْتَ أَوَّلَ ٱلنَّاسِ أَمْ أُبْدِئْتَ قَبْلَ ٱلتِّلَالِ؟ ٧ 7
Are you the first man that was born? Were you brought into existence before the hills?
هَلْ تَنَصَّتَّ فِي مَجْلِسِ ٱللهِ، أَوْ قَصَرْتَ ٱلْحِكْمَةَ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ؟ ٨ 8
Have you heard the secret knowledge of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
مَاذَا تَعْرِفُهُ وَلَا نَعْرِفُهُ نَحْنُ؟ وَمَاذَا تَفْهَمُ وَلَيْسَ هُوَ عِنْدَنَا؟ ٩ 9
What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not also in us?
عِنْدَنَا ٱلشَّيْخُ وَٱلْأَشْيَبُ، أَكْبَرُ أَيَّامًا مِنْ أَبِيكَ. ١٠ 10
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men who are much older than your father.
أَقَلِيلَةٌ عِنْدَكَ تَعْزِيَاتُ ٱللهِ، وَٱلْكَلَامُ مَعَكَ بِٱلرِّفْقِ؟ ١١ 11
Are the consolations of God too small for you, the words that are gentle toward you?
«لِمَاذَا يَأْخُذُكَ قَلْبُكَ؟ وَلِمَاذَا تَخْتَلِجُ عَيْنَاكَ ١٢ 12
Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
حَتَّى تَرُدَّ عَلَى ٱللهِ وَتُخْرِجَ مِنْ فِيكَ أَقْوَالًا؟ ١٣ 13
so that you turn your spirit against God and bring out such words from your mouth?
مَنْ هُوَ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ حَتَّى يَزْكُوَ، أَوْ مَوْلُودُ ٱلْمَرْأَةِ حَتَّى يَتَبَرَّرَ؟ ١٤ 14
What is man that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman that he should be righteous?
هُوَذَا قِدِّيسُوهُ لَا يَأْتَمِنُهُمْ، وَٱلسَّمَاوَاتُ غَيْرُ طَاهِرَةٍ بِعَيْنَيْهِ، ١٥ 15
See, God puts no trust even in his holy ones; indeed, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
فَبِالْحَرِيِّ مَكْرُوهٌ وَفَاسِدٌ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ ٱلشَّارِبُ ٱلْإِثْمَ كَٱلْمَاءِ! ١٦ 16
how much less clean is one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
«أُوحِي إِلَيْكَ، ٱسْمَعْ لِي فَأُحَدِّثَ بِمَا رَأَيْتُهُ، ١٧ 17
I will show you; listen to me; I will announce to you the things I have seen,
مَا أَخْبَرَ بِهِ حُكَمَاءُ عَنْ آبَائِهِمْ فَلَمْ يَكْتُمُوهُ. ١٨ 18
the things that wise men have passed down from their fathers, the things that their ancestors did not hide.
ٱلَّذِينَ لَهُمْ وَحْدَهُمْ أُعْطِيَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ، وَلَمْ يَعْبُرْ بَيْنَهُمْ غَرِيبٌ. ١٩ 19
These were their ancestors, to whom alone the land was given, and among whom no stranger ever passed.
ٱلشِّرِّيرُ هُوَ يَتَلَوَّى كُلَّ أَيَّامِهِ، وَكُلَّ عَدَدِ ٱلسِّنِينَ ٱلْمَعْدُودَةِ لِلْعَاتِي. ٢٠ 20
The wicked man twists in pain all his days, the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor to suffer.
صَوْتُ رُعُوبٍ فِي أُذُنَيْهِ. فِي سَاعَةِ سَلَامٍ يَأْتِيهِ ٱلْمُخَرِّبُ. ٢١ 21
A sound of terrors is in his ears; while he is in prosperity, the destroyer will come upon him.
لَا يَأْمُلُ ٱلرُّجُوعَ مِنَ ٱلظُّلْمَةِ، وَهُوَ مُرْتَقَبٌ لِلسَّيْفِ. ٢٢ 22
He does not think that he will return out of darkness; the sword waits for him.
تَائِهٌ هُوَ لِأَجْلِ ٱلْخُبْزِ حَيْثُمَا يَجِدْهُ، وَيَعْلَمُ أَنَّ يَوْمَ ٱلظُّلْمَةِ مُهَيَّأٌ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ. ٢٣ 23
He goes to various places for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
يُرْهِبُهُ ٱلضُّرُّ وَٱلضَّيْقُ. يَتَجَبَّرَانِ عَلَيْهِ كَمَلِكٍ مُسْتَعِدٍّ لِلْوَغَى. ٢٤ 24
Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.
لِأَنَّهُ مَدَّ عَلَى ٱللهِ يَدَهُ، وَعَلَى ٱلْقَدِيرِ تَجَبَّرَ ٢٥ 25
Because he has reached out with his hand against God and has behaved proudly against the Almighty,
عَادِيًا عَلَيْهِ، مُتَصَلِّبُ ٱلْعُنُقِ بِأَوْقَافِ مَجَانِّهِ مُعَبَّأَةً. ٢٦ 26
this wicked man runs at God with a stiff neck, with a thick shield.
لِأَنَّهُ قَدْ كَسَا وَجْهَهُ سَمْنًا، وَرَبَّى شَحْمًا عَلَى كِلْيَتَيْهِ، ٢٧ 27
This is true, even though he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat on his loins,
فَيَسْكُنُ مُدُنًا خَرِبَةً، بُيُوتًا غَيْرَ مَسْكُونَةٍ عَتِيدَةً أَنْ تَصِيرَ رُجَمًا. ٢٨ 28
and has lived in desolate cities; in houses which no man inhabits now and which were ready to become heaps.
لَا يَسْتَغْنِي، وَلَا تَثْبُتُ ثَرْوَتُهُ، وَلَا يَمْتَدُّ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ مُقْتَنَاهُ. ٢٩ 29
He will not be rich; his wealth will not last and his possessions will not spread over the land.
لَا تَزُولُ عَنْهُ ٱلظُّلْمَةُ. خَرَاعِيبُهُ تُيَبِّسُهَا ٱلسُّمُومُ، وَبِنَفْخَةِ فَمِهِ يَزُولُ. ٣٠ 30
He will not depart out of darkness; a flame will dry up his stalks; at the breath of God's mouth he will go away.
لَا يَتَّكِلْ عَلَى ٱلسُّوءِ. يَضِلُّ. لِأَنَّ ٱلسُّوءَ يَكُونُ أُجْرَتَهُ. ٣١ 31
Let him not trust in useless things, deceiving himself; for uselessness will be his reward.
قَبْلَ يَوْمِهِ يُتَوَفَّى، وَسَعَفُهُ لَا يَخْضَرُّ. ٣٢ 32
It will happen before his time should come to die; his branch will not be green.
يُسَاقِطُ كَٱلْجَفْنَةِ حِصْرِمَهُ، وَيَنْثُرُ كَٱلزَّيْتُونِ زَهْرُهُ. ٣٣ 33
He will drop his unripe grapes like a grapevine; he will cast off his flowers like the olive tree.
لِأَنَّ جَمَاعَةَ ٱلْفُجَّارِ عَاقِرٌ، وَٱلنَّارُ تَأْكُلُ خِيَامَ ٱلرَّشْوَةِ. ٣٤ 34
For the company of godless people will be barren; fire will consume their tents of bribery.
حَبِلَ شَقَاوَةً وَوَلَدَ إِثْمًا، وَبَطْنُهُ أَنْشَأَ غِشًّا». ٣٥ 35
They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity; their womb conceives deceit.”

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