Job 16
1 Job replied [to Eliphaz and the others: ]
| آنگاه ایوب پاسخ داد: |
2 “I have heard things like that before; all of you, [instead of helping me, ] are only causing me to feel more miserable.
| من از این حرفها زیاد شنیده‌ام. همهٔ شما تسلی‌دهندگان مزاحم هستید. |
3 Will your speeches, which are only hot air, never end [RHQ]? Eliphaz, what bothers/irritates you so much that you continue replying to me?
| آیا این سخنان بیهودهٔ شما پایانی ندارد؟ چه کسی شما را مجبور کرده این همه بحث کنید؟ |
4 If it were you [three and not I] who were suffering, I could say the things that you are saying; I could make great speeches [to criticize/condemn you], and I could shake my head at you [to ridicule you].
| اگر به جای شما بودم من هم می‌توانستم همین حرفها را بزنم و سرم را تکان داده، شما را به باد انتقاد و ریشخند بگیرم. |
5 But, [unlike all of you, ] with what I said [MTY] I would encourage you and try to cause your pain to be less.
| اما این کار را نمی‌کردم، بلکه طوری صحبت می‌کردم که حرفهایم به شما کمکی بکند. سعی می‌کردم شما را تسلی داده، غمتان را برطرف سازم. |
6 “But now, if I talk, my pain does not decrease, and if I am silent, my pain still certainly does not [RHQ] go away.
| هر چه سخن می‌گویم ناراحتی و غصه‌ام کاهش نمی‌یابد. اگر هم سکوت کنم و هیچ حرف نزنم، این نیز درد مرا دوا نخواهد کرد. |
7 God has now taken away all my strength, and he has destroyed my family.
| خدایا، تو مرا از زندگی خسته کرده و خانواده‌ام را از من گرفته‌ای. |
8 He has shriveled me up, and people think that shows that I [am a sinner]. And people see that I am only skin and bones, and they think that proves that I [am guilty].
| ای خدا، تو آنچنان مرا در سختیها قرار داده‌ای که از من پوست و استخوانی بیش نمانده است و دوستانم این را دلیل گناهان من می‌دانند. |
9 Because God is very angry with me and hates me, [it is as though he is a wild animal that] [MET] has gnashed his teeth at me because he is my enemy.
| خدا مرا به چشم یک دشمن نگاه می‌کند و در خشم خود گوشت بدنم را می‌درد. |
10 People gape/stare at me with their mouths open [to sneer at me]; they have struck me on the face/cheek to ridicule me, and they crowd around me to threaten me.
| مردم مرا مسخره می‌کنند و دور من جمع شده، به صورتم سیلی می‌زنند. |
11 [It is as though] God has handed me over to ungodly people and turned me over to the wicked [DOU].
| خدا مرا به دست گناهکاران سپرده است، به دست آنانی که شرور و بدکارند. |
12 Previously, I was living peacefully, but he crushed me; [it is as though] he grabbed my neck and smashed me to pieces. [It is as though] [MET] he set me up like a target;
| من در کمال آرامش زندگی می‌کردم که ناگاه خدا گلوی مرا گرفت و مرا پاره‌پاره کرد. اکنون نیز مرا هدف تیرهای خود قرار داده است. |
13 people are surrounding me [and shooting arrows at me]. His arrows pierce my kidneys and cause the bile [from my liver] to spill onto the ground, and God does not pity me at all.
| با بی‌رحمی از هر سو تیرهای خود را به سوی من رها می‌کند و بدن مرا زخمی می‌سازد. |
14 [It is as though] [MET] I am a wall that he is breaking through; he rushes at me like [SIM] a soldier [attacking his enemies].
| او مانند یک جنگجو پی‌درپی به من حمله می‌کند. |
15 [“Because I am mourning, ] I wear pieces of rough cloth that I have sewed together, and I sit [here] in the dirt, very depressed/discouraged.
| لباس ماتم پوشیده، به خاک ذلت نشسته‌ام. |
16 My face is red because I have cried very much, and there are dark circles around my eyes.
| از بس گریه کرده‌ام چشمانم سرخ شده و تاریکی بر دیدگانم سایه افکنده است. |
17 [All this has happened to me] even though I have not acted violently [toward anyone], and I [always] pray sincerely/honestly [to God].
| ولی من بی‌گناهم و دعایم بی‌ریاست. |
18 [When I die, ] I want the ground [APO] to [act as though I had been murdered and] cry out against those who killed me, and I do not want anyone to stop me while I am demanding [that God act justly toward] me.
| ای زمین، خون مرا پنهان نکن؛ بگذار خونم از جانب من بانگ اعتراض برآورد. |
19 But even now, [I know that] there is someone in heaven who will testify for me, and he will say that what I have done is right.
| من شاهدی در آسمان دارم که از من حمایت می‌کند. |
20 My [three] friends scorn/ridicule me, but my eyes are full of tears [while I cry out] to God.
| دوستانم مرا مسخره می‌کنند، ولی من اشکهای خود را در حضور خدا می‌ریزم |
21 I pray that [the] one [who knows what I have done] would come to plead with God for me like people plead for their friends.
| و به او التماس می‌کنم تا مثل شخصی که به حرفهای دوستش گوش می‌دهد، به سخنانم توجه کند. |
22 [I say this because] within a few years [I will die]; I will walk along the [to the grave] from which I will never return.”
| زیرا به‌زودی باید به راهی بروم که از آن بازگشتی نیست. |
