¹فاجاب ايوب وقال

¹And Job answered and said,

²قد سمعت كثيرا مثل هذا. معزون متعبون كلكم.

²I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.

³هل من نهاية لكلام فارغ. او ماذا يهيجك حتى تجاوب.

³Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

⁴انا ايضا استطيع ان اتكلم مثلكم لو كانت انفسكم مكان نفسي وان اسرد عليكم اقوالا وأنغض راسي اليكم.

⁴I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;

⁵بل كنت اشددكم بفمي وتعزية شفتيّ تمسككم

⁵[But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].

⁶ان تكلمت لم تمتنع كآبتي. وان سكت فماذا يذهب عني.

⁶If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?

⁷انه الآن ضجّرني. خربت كل جماعتي.

⁷But now he hath made me weary; ... thou hast made desolate all my family;

⁸قبضت عليّ. وجد شاهد. قام عليّ هزالي يجاوب في وجهي.

⁸Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.

⁹غضبه افترسني واضطهدني. حرّق عليّ اسنانه. عدوي يحدد عينيه عليّ.

⁹His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.

¹⁰فغروا عليّ افواههم. لطموني على فكّي تعييرا. تعاونوا عليّ جميعا.

¹⁰They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.

¹¹دفعني الله الى الظالم وفي ايدي الاشرار طرحني.

¹¹ùGod hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.

¹²كنت مستريحا فزعزعني وامسك بقفاي فحطمني ونصبني له غرضا.

¹²I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

¹³احاطت بي رماته. شق كليتيّ ولم يشفق. سفك مرارتي على الارض.

¹³His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

¹⁴يقتحمني اقتحاما على اقتحام. يعدو عليّ كجبار.

¹⁴He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.

¹⁵خطت مسحا على جلدي ودسست في التراب قرني.

¹⁵I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.

¹⁶احمر وجهي من البكاء وعلى هدبي ظل الموت.

¹⁶My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

¹⁷مع انه لا ظلم في يدي وصلاتي خالصة

¹⁷Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

¹⁸يا ارض لا تغطي دمي ولا يكن مكان لصراخي.

¹⁸O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!

¹⁹ايضا الآن هوذا في السموات شهيدي وشاهدي في الاعالي.

¹⁹Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.

²⁰المستهزئون بي هم اصحابي. لله تقطر عيني

²⁰My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.

²¹لكي يحاكم الانسان عند الله كابن آدم لدى صاحبه.

²¹Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!

²²اذا مضت سنون قليلة اسلك في طريق لا اعود منها

²²For years [few] in number shall pass, -- and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.