أَيُّوبَ 38
| فَأَجَابَ ٱلرَّبُّ أَيُّوبَ مِنَ ٱلْعَاصِفَةِ وَقَالَ: | ١ 1 |
And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:
| «مَنْ هَذَا ٱلَّذِي يُظْلِمُ ٱلْقَضَاءَ بِكَلَامٍ بِلَا مَعْرِفَةٍ؟ | ٢ 2 |
“Who [is] this—darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?
| اُشْدُدِ ٱلْآنَ حَقْوَيْكَ كَرَجُلٍ، فَإِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ فَتُعَلِّمُنِي. | ٣ 3 |
Now gird your loins as a man, And I ask you, and you cause Me to know.
| أَيْنَ كُنْتَ حِينَ أَسَّسْتُ ٱلْأَرْضَ؟ أَخْبِرْ إِنْ كَانَ عِنْدَكَ فَهْمٌ. | ٤ 4 |
Where were you when I founded the earth? Declare, if you have known understanding.
| مَنْ وَضَعَ قِيَاسَهَا؟ لِأَنَّكَ تَعْلَمُ! أَوْ مَنْ مَدَّ عَلَيْهَا مِطْمَارًا؟ | ٥ 5 |
Who placed its measures—if you know? Or who has stretched out a line on it?
| عَلَى أَيِّ شَيْءٍ قَرَّتْ قَوَاعِدُهَا؟ أَوْ مَنْ وَضَعَ حَجَرَ زَاوِيَتِهَا، | ٦ 6 |
On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who has cast its cornerstone—
| عِنْدَمَا تَرَنَّمَتْ كَوَاكِبُ ٱلصُّبْحِ مَعًا، وَهَتَفَ جَمِيعُ بَنِي ٱللهِ؟ | ٧ 7 |
In the singing together of [the] stars of morning, When all [the] sons of God shout for joy?
| «وَمَنْ حَجَزَ ٱلْبَحْرَ بِمَصَارِيعَ حِينَ ٱنْدَفَقَ فَخَرَجَ مِنَ ٱلرَّحِمِ. | ٨ 8 |
And He shuts up the sea with doors, In its coming forth, it goes out from the womb.
| إِذْ جَعَلْتُ ٱلسَّحَابَ لِبَاسَهُ، وَٱلضَّبَابَ قِمَاطَهُ، | ٩ 9 |
In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,
| وَجَزَمْتُ عَلَيْهِ حَدِّي، وَأَقَمْتُ لَهُ مَغَالِيقَ وَمَصَارِيعَ، | ١٠ 10 |
And I measure My statute over it, And place bar and doors,
| وَقُلْتُ: إِلَى هُنَا تَأْتِي وَلَا تَتَعَدَّى، وَهُنَا تُتْخَمُ كِبْرِيَاءُ لُجَجِكَ؟ | ١١ 11 |
And say, To here you come, and no more, And a command is placed On the pride of your billows.
| «هَلْ فِي أَيَّامِكَ أَمَرْتَ ٱلصُّبْحَ؟ هَلْ عَرَّفْتَ ٱلْفَجْرَ مَوْضِعَهُ | ١٢ 12 |
Have you commanded morning since your days? Do you cause the dawn to know its place?
| لِيُمْسِكَ بِأَكْنَافِ ٱلْأَرْضِ، فَيُنْفَضَ ٱلْأَشْرَارُ مِنْهَا؟ | ١٣ 13 |
To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,
| تَتَحَوَّلُ كَطِينِ ٱلْخَاتِمِ، وَتَقِفُ كَأَنَّهَا لَابِسَةٌ. | ١٤ 14 |
It turns itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.
| وَيُمْنَعُ عَنِ ٱلْأَشْرَارِ نُورُهُمْ، وَتَنْكَسِرُ ٱلذِّرَاعُ ٱلْمُرْتَفِعَةُ. | ١٥ 15 |
And their light is withheld from the wicked, And the arm lifted up is broken.
| «هَلِ ٱنْتَهَيْتَ إِلَى يَنَابِيعِ ٱلْبَحْرِ، أَوْ فِي مَقْصُورَةِ ٱلْغَمْرِ تَمَشَّيْتَ؟ | ١٦ 16 |
Have you come to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Have you walked up and down?
| هَلِ ٱنْكَشَفَتْ لَكَ أَبْوَابُ ٱلْمَوْتِ، أَوْ عَايَنْتَ أَبْوَابَ ظِلِّ ٱلْمَوْتِ؟ | ١٧ 17 |
Were the gates of death revealed to you? And do you see the gates of death-shade?
| هَلْ أَدْرَكْتَ عَرْضَ ٱلْأَرْضِ؟ أَخْبِرْ إِنْ عَرَفْتَهُ كُلَّهُ. | ١٨ 18 |
You have understanding, Even to the broad places of earth! Declare—if you have known it all.
| «أَيْنَ ٱلطَّرِيقُ إِلَى حَيْثُ يَسْكُنُ ٱلنُّورُ؟ وَٱلظُّلْمَةُ أَيْنَ مَقَامُهَا، | ١٩ 19 |
Where [is] this—the way light dwells? And darkness, where [is] this—its place?
| حَتَّى تَأْخُذَهَا إِلَى تُخُومِهَا وَتَعْرِفَ سُبُلَ بَيْتِهَا؟ | ٢٠ 20 |
That you take it to its boundary, And that you understand the paths of its house.
| تَعْلَمُ، لِأَنَّكَ حِينَئِذٍ كُنْتَ قَدْ وُلِدْتَ، وَعَدَدُ أَيَّامِكَ كَثِيرٌ! | ٢١ 21 |
You have known—for then you are born, And the number of your days [are] many!
| «أَدَخَلْتَ إِلَى خَزَائِنِ ٱلثَّلْجِ، أَمْ أَبْصَرْتَ مَخَازِنَ ٱلْبَرَدِ، | ٢٢ 22 |
Have you come to the treasure of snow? Indeed, do you see the treasures of hail,
| ٱلَّتِي أَبْقَيْتَهَا لِوَقْتِ ٱلضَّرِّ، لِيَوْمِ ٱلْقِتَالِ وَٱلْحَرْبِ؟ | ٢٣ 23 |
That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle?
| فِي أَيِّ طَرِيقٍ يَتَوَزَّعُ ٱلنُّورُ، وَتَتَفَرَّقُ ٱلشَّرْقِيَّةُ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ؟ | ٢٤ 24 |
Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scatters an east wind over the earth.
| مَنْ فَرَّعَ قَنَوَاتٍ لِلْهَطْلِ، وَطَرِيقًا لِلصَّوَاعِقِ، | ٢٥ 25 |
Who has divided a conduit for the flood? And a way for the lightning of the voices?
| لِيَمْطُرَ عَلَى أَرْضٍ حَيْثُ لَا إِنْسَانَ، عَلَى قَفْرٍ لَا أَحَدَ فِيهِ، | ٢٦ 26 |
To cause [it] to rain on a land [with] no man, A wilderness [with] no man in it.
| لِيُرْوِيَ ٱلْبَلْقَعَ وَٱلْخَلَاءَ وَيُنْبِتَ مَخْرَجَ ٱلْعُشْبِ؟ | ٢٧ 27 |
To satisfy a desolate and ruined place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?
| «هَلْ لِلْمَطَرِ أَبٌ؟ وَمَنْ وَلَدَ مَآجِلَ ٱلطَّلِّ؟ | ٢٨ 28 |
Does the rain have a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
| مِنْ بَطْنِ مَنْ خَرَجَ ٱلْجَمَدُ؟ صَقِيعُ ٱلسَّمَاءِ، مَنْ وَلَدَهُ؟ | ٢٩ 29 |
From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoarfrost of the heavens, Who has begotten it?
| كَحَجَرٍ صَارَتِ ٱلْمِيَاهُ. ٱخْتَبَأَتْ. وَتَلَكَّدَ وَجْهُ ٱلْغَمْرِ. | ٣٠ 30 |
Waters are hidden as a stone, And the face of the deep is captured.
| «هَلْ تَرْبِطُ أَنْتَ عُقْدَ ٱلثُّرَيَّا، أَوْ تَفُكُّ رُبُطَ ٱلْجَبَّارِ؟ | ٣١ 31 |
Do you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Or do you open the cords of Orion?
| أَتُخْرِجُ ٱلْمَنَازِلَ فِي أَوْقَاتِهَا وَتَهْدِي ٱلنَّعْشَ مَعَ بَنَاتِهِ؟ | ٣٢ 32 |
Do you bring out the twelve signs in [their] season? And do you comfort the Great Bear over her sons?
| هَلْ عَرَفْتَ سُنَنَ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ، أَوْ جَعَلْتَ تَسَلُّطَهَا عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ؟ | ٣٣ 33 |
Have you known the statutes of the heavens? Or do you appoint Its dominion in the earth?
| أَتَرْفَعُ صَوْتَكَ إِلَى ٱلسُّحُبِ فَيُغَطِّيَكَ فَيْضُ ٱلْمِيَاهِ؟ | ٣٤ 34 |
Do you lift up your voice to the cloud, And abundance of water covers you?
| أَتُرْسِلُ ٱلْبُرُوقَ فَتَذْهَبَ وَتَقُولَ لَكَ: هَا نَحْنُ؟ | ٣٥ 35 |
Do you send out lightnings, and they go And say to you, Behold us?
| مَنْ وَضَعَ فِي ٱلطَّخَاءِ حِكْمَةً، أَوْ مَنْ أَظْهَرَ فِي ٱلشُّهُبِ فِطْنَةً؟ | ٣٦ 36 |
Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the covered part?
| مَنْ يُحْصِي ٱلْغُيُومَ بِٱلْحِكْمَةِ، وَمَنْ يَسْكُبُ أَزْقَاقَ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ، | ٣٧ 37 |
Who numbers the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who causes to lie down,
| إِذْ يَنْسَبِكُ ٱلتُّرَابُ سَبْكًا وَيَتَلَاصَقُ ٱلْمَدَرُ؟ | ٣٨ 38 |
In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?
| «أَتَصْطَادُ لِلَّبْوَةِ فَرِيسَةً، أَمْ تُشْبِعُ نَفْسَ ٱلْأَشْبَالِ، | ٣٩ 39 |
Do you hunt prey for a lion? And fulfill the desire of young lions?
| حِينَ تَجْرَمِزُّ فِي عِرِّيسِهَا وَتَجْلِسُ فِي عِيصِهَا لِلْكُمُونِ؟ | ٤٠ 40 |
When they bow down in dens—Abide in a thicket for a covert?
| مَنْ يُهَيِّئُ لِلْغُرَابِ صَيْدَهُ، إِذْ تَنْعَبُ فِرَاخُهُ إِلَى ٱللهِ، وَتَتَرَدَّدُ لِعَدَمِ ٱلْقُوتِ؟ | ٤١ 41 |
Who prepares for a raven his provision, When his young ones cry to God? They wander without food.”
