Job 3

بَعْدَ هذَا فَتَحَ أَيُّوبُ فَاهُ وَسَبَّ يَوْمَهُ،

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

وَأَخَذَ أَيُّوبُ يَتَكَلَّمُ فَقَالَ:

And Job spake, and said,

«لَيْتَهُ هَلَكَ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي وُلِدْتُ فِيهِ، وَاللَّيْلُ الَّذِي قَالَ: قَدْ حُبِلَ بِرَجُل.

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

لِيَكُنْ ذلِكَ الْيَوْمُ ظَلاَمًا. لاَ يَعْتَنِ بِهِ اللهُ مِنْ فَوْقُ، وَلاَ يُشْرِقْ عَلَيْهِ نَهَارٌ.

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

لِيَمْلِكْهُ الظَّلاَمُ وَظِلُّ الْمَوْتِ. لِيَحُلَّ عَلَيْهِ سَحَابٌ. لِتَرْعَبْهُ كَاسِفَاتُ ظُلُمَاتُ النَّهَارِ.

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

أَمَّا ذلِكَ اللَّيْلُ فَلْيُمْسِكْهُ الدُّجَى، وَلاَ يَفْرَحْ بَيْنَ أَيَّامِ السَّنَةِ، وَلاَ يَدْخُلَنَّ فِي عَدَدِ الشُّهُورِ.

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

هُوَذَا ذلِكَ اللَّيْلُ لِيَكُنْ عَاقِرًا، لاَ يُسْمَعْ فِيهِ هُتَافٌ.

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

لِيَلْعَنْهُ لاَعِنُو الْيَوْمِ الْمُسْتَعِدُّونَ لإِيقَاظِ التِّنِّينِ.

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

لِتُظْلِمْ نُجُومُ عِشَائِهِ. لِيَنْتَظِرِ النُّورَ وَلاَ يَكُنْ، وَلاَ يَرَ هُدُبَ الصُّبْحِ،

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

لأَنَّهُ لَمْ يُغْلِقْ أَبْوَابَ بَطْنِ أُمِّي، وَلَمْ يَسْتُرِ الشَّقَاوَةَ عَنْ عَيْنَيَّ.

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

لِمَ لَمْ أَمُتْ مِنَ الرَّحِمِ؟ عِنْدَمَا خَرَجْتُ مِنَ الْبَطْنِ، لِمَ لَمْ أُسْلِمِ الرُّوحَ؟

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

لِمَاذَا أَعَانَتْنِي الرُّكَبُ، وَلِمَ الثُّدِيُّ حَتَّى أَرْضَعَ؟

Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

لأَنِّي قَدْ كُنْتُ الآنَ مُضْطَجِعًا سَاكِنًا. حِينَئِذٍ كُنْتُ نِمْتُ مُسْتَرِيحًا

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

مَعَ مُلُوكٍ وَمُشِيرِي الأَرْضِ، الَّذِينَ بَنَوْا أَهْرَامًا لأَنْفُسِهِمْ،

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

أَوْ مَعَ رُؤَسَاءَ لَهُمْ ذَهَبٌ، الْمَالِئِينَ بُيُوتَهُمْ فِضَّةً،

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

أَوْ كَسِقْطٍ مَطْمُورٍ فَلَمْ أَكُنْ، كَأَجِنَّةٍ لَمْ يَرَوْا نُورًا.

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

هُنَاكَ يَكُفُّ الْمُنَافِقُونَ عَنِ الشَّغْبِ، وَهُنَاكَ يَسْتَرِيحُ الْمُتْعَبُون.

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

الأَسْرَى يَطْمَئِنُّونَ جَمِيعًا، لاَ يَسْمَعُونَ صَوْتَ الْمُسَخِّرِ.

There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

الصَّغِيرُ كَمَا الْكَبِيرُ هُنَاكَ، وَالْعَبْدُ حُرٌّ مِنْ سَيِّدِهِ.

The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

«لِمَ يُعْطَى لِشَقِيٍّ نُورٌ، وَحَيَاةٌ لِمُرِّي النَّفْسِ؟

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

الَّذِينَ يَنْتَظِرُونَ الْمَوْتَ وَلَيْسَ هُوَ، وَيَحْفُرُونَ عَلَيْهِ أَكْثَرَ مِنَ الْكُنُوزِ،

Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

الْمَسْرُورِينَ إِلَى أَنْ يَبْتَهِجُوا، الْفَرِحِينَ عِنْدَمَا يَجِدُونَ قَبْرًا!

Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

لِرَجُل قَدْ خَفِيَ عَلَيْهِ طَرِيقُهُ، وَقَدْ سَيَّجَ اللهُ حَوْلَهُ.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

لأَنَّهُ مِثْلَ خُبْزِي يَأْتِي أَنِينِي، وَمِثْلَ الْمِيَاهِ تَنْسَكِبُ زَفْرَتِي،

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

لأَنِّي ارْتِعَابًا ارْتَعَبْتُ فَأَتَانِي، وَالَّذِي فَزِعْتُ مِنْهُ جَاءَ عَلَيَّ.

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

لَمْ أَطْمَئِنَّ وَلَمْ أَسْكُنْ وَلَمْ أَسْتَرِحْ، وَقَدْ جَاءَ الزُّجْرُ».

I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.