Job 19

Then Job answered and said,

فَأَجَابَ أَيُّوبُ وَقَالَ:

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

«حَتَّى مَتَى تُعَذِّبُونَ نَفْسِي وَتَسْحَقُونَنِي بِالْكَلاَمِ؟

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

هذِهِ عَشَرَ مَرَّاتٍ أَخْزَيْتُمُونِي. لَمْ تَخْجَلُوا مِنْ أَنْ تَحْكِرُونِي.

And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

وَهَبْنِي ضَلَلْتُ حَقًّا. عَلَيَّ تَسْتَقِرُّ ضَلاَلَتِي!

If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

إِنْ كُنْتُمْ بِالْحَقِّ تَسْتَكْبِرُونَ عَلَيَّ، فَثَبِّتُوا عَلَيَّ عَارِي.

Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

فَاعْلَمُوا إِذًا أَنَّ اللهَ قَدْ عَوَّجَنِي، وَلَفَّ عَلَيَّ أُحْبُولَتَهُ.

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

هَا إِنِّي أَصْرُخُ ظُلْمًا فَلاَ أُسْتَجَابُ. أَدْعُو وَلَيْسَ حُكْمٌ.

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

قَدْ حَوَّطَ طَرِيقِي فَلاَ أَعْبُرُ، وَعَلَى سُبُلِي جَعَلَ ظَلاَمًا.

He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

أَزَالَ عَنِّي كَرَامَتِي وَنَزَعَ تَاجَ رَأْسِي.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

هَدَمَنِي مِنْ كُلِّ جِهَةٍ فَذَهَبْتُ، وَقَلَعَ مِثْلَ شَجَرَةٍ رَجَائِي،

He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

وَأَضْرَمَ عَلَيَّ غَضَبَهُ، وَحَسِبَنِي كَأَعْدَائِهِ.

His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

مَعًا جَاءَتْ غُزَاتُهُ، وَأَعَدُّوا عَلَيَّ طَرِيقَهُمْ، وَحَلُّوا حَوْلَ خَيْمَتِي.

He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

قَدْ أَبْعَدَ عَنِّي إِخْوَتِي، وَمَعَارِفِي زَاغُوا عَنِّي.

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

أَقَارِبِي قَدْ خَذَلُونِي، وَالَّذِينَ عَرَفُونِي نَسُونِي.

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

نُزَلاَءُ بَيْتِي وَإِمَائِي يَحْسِبُونَنِي أَجْنَبِيًّا. صِرْتُ فِي أَعْيُنِهِمْ غَرِيبًا.

I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

عَبْدِي دَعَوْتُ فَلَمْ يُجِبْ. بِفَمِي تَضَرَّعْتُ إِلَيْهِ.

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

نَكْهَتِي مَكْرُوهَةٌ عِنْدَ امْرَأَتِي، وَخَمَمْتُ عِنْدَ أَبْنَاءِ أَحْشَائِي.

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

اَلأَوْلاَدُ أَيْضًا قَدْ رَذَلُونِي. إِذَا قُمْتُ يَتَكَلَّمُونَ عَلَيَّ.

All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

كَرِهَنِي كُلُّ رِجَالِي، وَالَّذِينَ أَحْبَبْتُهُمُ انْقَلَبُوا عَلَيَّ.

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

عَظْمِي قَدْ لَصِقَ بِجِلْدِي وَلَحْمِي، وَنَجَوْتُ بِجِلْدِ أَسْنَانِي.

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

تَرَاءَفُوا، تَرَاءَفُوا أَنْتُمْ عَلَيَّ يَا أَصْحَابِي، لأَنَّ يَدَ اللهِ قَدْ مَسَّتْنِي.

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

لِمَاذَا تُطَارِدُونَنِي كَمَا اللهُ، وَلاَ تَشْبَعُونَ مِنْ لَحْمِي؟

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

«لَيْتَ كَلِمَاتِي الآنَ تُكْتَبُ. يَا لَيْتَهَا رُسِمَتْ فِي سِفْرٍ،

That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

وَنُقِرَتْ إِلَى الأَبَدِ فِي الصَّخْرِ بِقَلَمِ حَدِيدٍ وَبِرَصَاصٍ.

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

أَمَّا أَنَا فَقَدْ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّ وَلِيِّي حَيٌّ، وَالآخِرَ عَلَى الأَرْضِ يَقُومُ،

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

وَبَعْدَ أَنْ يُفْنَى جِلْدِي هذَا، وَبِدُونِ جَسَدِي أَرَى اللهَ.

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

الَّذِي أَرَاهُ أَنَا لِنَفْسِي، وَعَيْنَايَ تَنْظُرَانِ وَلَيْسَ آخَرُ. إِلَى ذلِكَ تَتُوقُ كُلْيَتَايَ فِي جَوْفِي.

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

فَإِنَّكُمْ تَقُولُونَ: لِمَاذَا نُطَارِدُهُ؟ وَالْكَلاَمُ الأَصْلِيُّ يُوجَدُ عِنْدِي.

Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

خَافُوا عَلَى أَنْفُسِكُمْ مِنَ السَّيْفِ، لأَنَّ الْغَيْظَ مِنْ آثَامِ السَّيْفِ. لِكَيْ تَعْلَمُوا مَا هُوَ الْقَضَاءُ».