¹قد كرهت نفسي حياتي. اسيب شكواي. اتكلم في مرارة نفسي

¹“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

²قائلا لله لا تستذنبني. فهمني لماذا تخاصمني.

²I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

³احسن عندك ان تظلم ان ترذل عمل يديك وتشرق على مشورة الاشرار.

³Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

⁴ألك عينا بشر ام كنظر الانسان تنظر.

⁴Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

⁵أأيامك كايام الانسان ام سنوك كايام الرجل

⁵Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,

⁶حتى تبحث عن اثمي وتفتش على خطيتي.

⁶that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

⁷في علمك اني لست مذنبا ولا منقذ من يدك

⁷Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

⁸يداك كوّنتاني وصنعتاني كلي جميعا. أفتبتلعني.

⁸“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

⁹اذكر انك جبلتني كالطين. أفتعيدني الى التراب.

⁹Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

¹⁰ألم تصبّني كاللبن وخثّرتني كالجبن.

¹⁰Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

¹¹كسوتني جلدا ولحما فنسجتني بعظام وعصب.

¹¹You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

¹²منحتني حياة ورحمة وحفظت عنايتك روحي.

¹²You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

¹³لكنك كتمت هذه في قلبك. علمت ان هذا عندك.

¹³Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

¹⁴ان اخطأت تلاحظني ولا تبرئني من اثمي.

¹⁴if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

¹⁵ان اذنبت فويل لي. وان تبررت لا ارفع راسي. اني شبعان هوانا وناظر مذلتي.

¹⁵If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

¹⁶وان ارتفع تصطادني كاسد ثم تعود وتتجبر عليّ.

¹⁶If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

¹⁷تجدد شهودك تجاهي وتزيد غضبك عليّ. نوب وجيش ضدي

¹⁷You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

¹⁸فلماذا اخرجتني من الرحم. كنت قد اسلمت الروح ولم ترني عين

¹⁸“‘Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

¹⁹فكنت كاني لم اكن فأقاد من الرحم الى القبر.

¹⁹I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

²⁰أليست ايامي قليلة. اترك. كف عني فاتبلج قليلا

²⁰Aren’t my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

²¹قبل ان اذهب ولا اعود. الى ارض ظلمة وظل الموت

²¹before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

²²ارض ظلام مثل دجى ظل الموت وبلا ترتيب واشراقها كالدجى

²²the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”