Job 18
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
| آنگاه بلدد شوحی پاسخ داد: |
2 “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
| تا کی می‌خواهی به این حرفها ادامه دهی؟ اگر می‌خواهی ما هم سخن بگوییم قدری عاقلانه‌تر صحبت کن. |
3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
| آیا تو فکر می‌کنی ما مثل حیوان بی‌شعور هستیم؟ |
4 You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
| چرا بی‌جهت خشمگین می‌شوی و به خود صدمه می‌زنی؟ آیا انتظار داری به خاطر تو زمین بلرزد و صخره‌ها واژگون شوند. |
5 “Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.
| چراغ مرد بدکار خاموش خواهد شد و شعله‌اش نوری نخواهد داد. |
6 The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
| در هر خانه‌ای که شرارت وجود داشته باشد، تاریکی حکمفرما خواهد بود. |
7 The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will 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 wanders into its mesh.
| او با پای خود به دام می‌افتد و تله پاشنهٔ پای او را می‌گیرد و او را رها نمی‌کند. |
9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
| سر راه او تله‌ها پنهان شده است. |
11 Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.
| ترسها از هر طرف به او هجوم می‌آورند و او را قدم به قدم تعقیب می‌کنند. |
12 His strength will be famished. Calamity will 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 The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.
| مرض مهلک به جان او می‌افتد و او را به کام مرگ می‌کشاند. |
14 He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.
| از خانهٔ امن خود جدا شده، نزد پادشاه مرگ برده می‌شود. |
15 There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
| خانه‌اش در زیر آتش گوگرد نابود می‌گردد. |
16 His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.
| ریشه و شاخه‌هایش می‌خشکند و از بین می‌روند. |
17 His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.
| خاطرهٔ وجود او تمام از روی زمین محو می‌گردد و هیچ‌کس او را به یاد نمی‌آورد. |
18 He will 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 will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
| در میان قومش نسلی از او باقی نمی‌ماند. |
20 Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
| قومهای مغرب و مشرق از سرنوشت او حیران و هراسان می‌شوند. |
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”
| آری، این بلایی است که بر سر گناهکاران می‌آید، بر سر آنانی که خدا را نمی‌شناسند. |
