Job 18
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
| آنگاه بلدد شوحی پاسخ داد: |
2 How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
| تا کی می‌خواهی به این حرفها ادامه دهی؟ اگر می‌خواهی ما هم سخن بگوییم قدری عاقلانه‌تر صحبت کن. |
3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?
| آیا تو فکر می‌کنی ما مثل حیوان بی‌شعور هستیم؟ |
4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
| چرا بی‌جهت خشمگین می‌شوی و به خود صدمه می‌زنی؟ آیا انتظار داری به خاطر تو زمین بلرزد و صخره‌ها واژگون شوند. |
5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
| چراغ مرد بدکار خاموش خواهد شد و شعله‌اش نوری نخواهد داد. |
6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
| در هر خانه‌ای که شرارت وجود داشته باشد، تاریکی حکمفرما خواهد بود. |
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
| قدمهای شرور سست می‌شوند و او قربانی نقشه‌های خود می‌گردد. |
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
| او با پای خود به دام می‌افتد و تله پاشنهٔ پای او را می‌گیرد و او را رها نمی‌کند. |
9 The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.
10 The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
| سر راه او تله‌ها پنهان شده است. |
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
| ترسها از هر طرف به او هجوم می‌آورند و او را قدم به قدم تعقیب می‌کنند. |
12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.
| مصیبت دهان خود را برای او باز کرده و فلاکت آماده است تا او را به کام خود فرو برد. |
13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
| مرض مهلک به جان او می‌افتد و او را به کام مرگ می‌کشاند. |
14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
| از خانهٔ امن خود جدا شده، نزد پادشاه مرگ برده می‌شود. |
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
| خانه‌اش در زیر آتش گوگرد نابود می‌گردد. |
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
| ریشه و شاخه‌هایش می‌خشکند و از بین می‌روند. |
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
| خاطرهٔ وجود او تمام از روی زمین محو می‌گردد و هیچ‌کس او را به یاد نمی‌آورد. |
18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
| از دنیای زندگان بیرون انداخته شده، از نور به تاریکی رانده می‌شود. |
19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
| در میان قومش نسلی از او باقی نمی‌ماند. |
20 They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
| قومهای مغرب و مشرق از سرنوشت او حیران و هراسان می‌شوند. |
21 Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God.
| آری، این بلایی است که بر سر گناهکاران می‌آید، بر سر آنانی که خدا را نمی‌شناسند. |
