1فاجاب بلدد الشوحي وقال
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2الى متى تقول هذا وتكون اقوال فيك ريحا شديدة.
2“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
3هل الله يعوّج القضاء او القدير يعكس الحق.
3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
4اذ اخطأ اليه بنوك دفعهم الى يد معصيتهم.
4If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
5فان بكرت انت الى الله وتضرعت الى القدير.
5If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
6ان كنت انت زكيا مستقيما فانه الآن يتنبه لك ويسلم مسكن برك.
6If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
7وان تكن اولاك صغيرة فآخرتك تكثر جدا
7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
8اسأل القرون الاولى وتأكد مباحث آبائهم.
8“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
9لاننا نحن من امس ولا نعلم لان ايامنا على الارض ظل.
9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
10فهلا يعلمونك. يقولون لك ومن قلوبهم يخرجون اقوالا قائلين
10Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
11هل ينمي البردي في غير الغمقة او تنبت الحلفاء بلا ماء.
11“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
12وهو بعد في نضارته لم يقطع ييبس قبل كل العشب.
12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
13هكذا سبل كل الناسين الله ورجاء الفاجر يخيب
13So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
14فينقطع اعتماده ومتكله بيت العنكبوت.
14Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web.
15يستند الى بيته فلا يثبت. يتمسك به فلا يقوم.
15He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
16هو رطب تجاه الشمس وعلى جنته تنبت خراعيبه.
16He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.
17واصوله مشتبكة في الرجمة فترى محل الحجارة.
17His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
18ان اقتلعه من مكانه يجحده قائلا ما رايتك.
18If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
19هذا هو فرح طريقه ومن التراب ينبت آخر
19Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.
20هوذا الله لا يرفض الكامل ولا يأخذ بيد فاعلي الشر.
20“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
21عندما يملأ فاك ضحكا وشفتيك هتافا.
21He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
22يلبس مبغضوك خزيا. اما خيمة الاشرار فلا تكون
22Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more.”