Job 16

Then Job answered and said,
فَأَجَابَ أَيُّوبُ وَقَالَ:
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
«قَدْ سَمِعْتُ كَثِيرًا مِثْلَ هذَا. مُعَزُّونَ مُتْعِبُونَ كُلُّكُمْ!
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
هَلْ مِنْ نِهَايَةٍ لِكَلاَمٍ فَارِغٍ؟ أَوْ مَاذَا يُهَيِّجُكَ حَتَّى تُجَاوِبَ؟
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
أَنَا أَيْضًا أَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ أَتَكَلَّمَ مِثْلَكُمْ، لَوْ كَانَتْ أَنْفُسُكُمْ مَكَانَ نَفْسِي، وَأَنْ أَسْرُدَ عَلَيْكُمْ أَقْوَالاً وَأُنْغِضَ رَأْسِي إِلَيْكُمْ.
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
بَلْ كُنْتُ أُشَدِّدُكُمْ بِفَمِي، وَتَعْزِيَةُ شَفَتَيَّ تُمْسِكُكُمْ.
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
«إِنْ تَكَلَّمْتُ لَمْ تَمْتَنِعْ كَآبَتِي، وَإِنْ سَكَتُّ فَمَاذَا يَذْهَبُ عَنِّي؟
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
إِنَّهُ الآنَ ضَجَّرَنِي. خَرَّبْتَ كُلَّ جَمَاعَتِي.
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
قَبَضْتَ عَلَيَّ. وُجِدَ شَاهِدٌ. قَامَ عَلَيَّ هُزَالِي يُجَاوِبُ فِي وَجْهِي.
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
غَضَبُهُ افْتَرَسَنِي وَاضْطَهَدَنِي. حَرَقَ عَلَيَّ أَسْنَانَهُ. عَدُوِّي يُحَدِّدُ عَيْنَيْهِ عَلَيَّ.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
فَغَرُوا عَلَيَّ أَفْوَاهَهُمْ. لَطَمُونِي عَلَى فَكِّي تَعْيِيرًا. تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَيَّ جَمِيعًا.
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
دَفَعَنِيَ اللهُ إِلَى الظَّالِمِ، وَفِي أَيْدِي الأَشْرَارِ طَرَحَنِي.
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
كُنْتُ مُسْتَرِيحًا فَزَعْزَعَنِي، وَأَمْسَكَ بِقَفَايَ فَحَطَّمَنِي، وَنَصَبَنِي لَهُ غَرَضًا.
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
أَحَاطَتْ بِي رُمَاتُهُ. شَقَّ كُلْيَتَيَّ وَلَمْ يُشْفِقْ. سَفَكَ مَرَارَتِي عَلَى الأَرْضِ.
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
يَقْتَحِمُنِي اقْتِحَامًا عَلَى اقْتِحَامٍ. يَعْدُو عَلَيَّ كَجَبَّارٍ.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
خِطْتُ مِسْحًا عَلَى جِلْدِي، وَدَسَسْتُ فِي التُّرَابِ قَرْنِي.
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
اِحْمَرَّ وَجْهِي مِنَ الْبُكَاءِ، وَعَلَى هُدُبِي ظِلُّ الْمَوْتِ.
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
مَعَ أَنَّهُ لاَ ظُلْمَ فِي يَدِي، وَصَلاَتِي خَالِصَةٌ.
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
«يَا أَرْضُ لاَ تُغَطِّي دَمِي، وَلاَ يَكُنْ مَكَانٌ لِصُرَاخِي.
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
أَيْضًا الآنَ هُوَذَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ شَهِيدِي، وَشَاهِدِي فِي الأَعَالِي.
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
الْمُسْتَهْزِئُونَ بِي هُمْ أَصْحَابِي. ِللهِ تَقْطُرُ عَيْنِي
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
لِكَيْ يُحَاكِمَ الإِنْسَانَ عِنْدَ اللهِ كَابْنِ آدَمَ لَدَى صَاحِبِهِ.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
إِذَا مَضَتْ سِنُونَ قَلِيلَةٌ أَسْلُكُ فِي طَرِيق لاَ أَعُودُ مِنْهَا.