| 1 «عَهْدًا قَطَعْتُ لِعَيْنَيَّ، فَكَيْفَ أَتَطَلَّعُ فِي عَذْرَاءَ؟ | 1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? |
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| 2 وَمَا هِيَ قِسْمَةُ اللهِ مِنْ فَوْقُ، وَنَصِيبُ الْقَدِيرِ مِنَ الأَعَالِي؟ | 2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? |
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3 أَلَيْسَ الْبَوَارُ لِعَامِلِ الشَّرِّ، وَالنُّكْرُ لِفَاعِلِي الإِثْمِ؟  | 3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? |
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| 4 أَلَيْسَ هُوَ يَنْظُرُ طُرُقِي، وَيُحْصِي جَمِيعَ خَطَوَاتِي؟ | 4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? |
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| 5 إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ سَلَكْتُ مَعَ الْكَذِبِ، أَوْ أَسْرَعَتْ رِجْلِي إِلَى الْغِشِّ، | 5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; |
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| 6 لِيَزِنِّي فِي مِيزَانِ الْحَقِّ، فَيَعْرِفَ اللهُ كَمَالِي. | 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity. |
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| 7 إِنْ حَادَتْ خَطَوَاتِي عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ، وَذَهَبَ قَلْبِي وَرَاءَ عَيْنَيَّ، أَوْ لَصِقَ عَيْبٌ بِكَفِّي، | 7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; |
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| 8 أَزْرَعْ وَغَيْرِي يَأْكُلْ، وَفُرُوعِي تُسْتَأْصَلْ. | 8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. |
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| 9 «إِنْ غَوِيَ قَلْبِي عَلَى امْرَأَةٍ، أَوْ كَمَنْتُ عَلَى بَابِ قَرِيبِي، | 9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; |
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| 10 فَلْتَطْحَنِ امْرَأَتِي لآخَرَ، وَلْيَنْحَنِ عَلَيْهَا آخَرُونَ. | 10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. |
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| 11 لأَنَّ هذِهِ رَذِيلَةٌ، وَهِيَ إِثْمٌ يُعْرَضُ لِلْقُضَاةِ. | 11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. |
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| 12 لأَنَّهَا نَارٌ تَأْكُلُ حَتَّى إِلَى الْهَلاَكِ، وَتَسْتَأْصِلُ كُلَّ مَحْصُولِي. | 12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. |
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| 13 «إِنْ كُنْتُ رَفَضْتُ حَقَّ عَبْدِي وَأَمَتِي فِي دَعْوَاهُمَا عَلَيَّ، | 13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; |
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| 14 فَمَاذَا كُنْتُ أَصْنَعُ حِينَ يَقُومُ اللهُ؟ وَإِذَا افْتَقَدَ، فَبِمَاذَا أُجِيبُهُ؟ | 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? |
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| 15 أَوَلَيْسَ صَانِعِي فِي الْبَطْنِ صَانِعَهُ، وَقَدْ صَوَّرَنَا وَاحِدٌ فِي الرَّحِمِ؟ | 15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? |
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| 16 إِنْ كُنْتُ مَنَعْتُ الْمَسَاكِينَ عَنْ مُرَادِهِمْ، أَوْ أَفْنَيْتُ عَيْنَيِ الأَرْمَلَةِ، | 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; |
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| 17 أَوْ أَكَلْتُ لُقْمَتِي وَحْدِي فَمَا أَكَلَ مِنْهَا الْيَتِيمُ. | 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; |
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| 18 بَلْ مُنْذُ صِبَايَ كَبِرَ عِنْدِي كَأَبٍ، وَمِنْ بَطْنِ أُمِّي هَدَيْتُهَا. | 18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) |
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| 19 إِنْ كُنْتُ رَأَيْتُ هَالِكًا لِعَدَمِ اللِّبْسِ أَوْ فَقِيرًا بِلاَ كِسْوَةٍ، | 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; |
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| 20 إِنْ لَمْ تُبَارِكْنِي حَقَوَاهُ وَقَدِ اسْتَدْفَأَ بِجَزَّةِ غَنَمِي. | 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; |
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| 21 إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ هَزَزْتُ يَدِي عَلَى الْيَتِيمِ لَمَّا رَأَيْتُ عَوْنِي فِي الْبَابِ، | 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: |
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| 22 فَلْتَسْقُطْ عَضُدِي مِنْ كَتِفِي، وَلْتَنْكَسِرْ ذِرَاعِي مِنْ قَصَبَتِهَا، | 22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. |
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| 23 لأَنَّ الْبَوَارَ مِنَ اللهِ رُعْبٌ عَلَيَّ، وَمِنْ جَلاَلِهِ لَمْ أَسْتَطِعْ. | 23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. |
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| 24 «إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ جَعَلْتُ الذَّهَبَ عَمْدَتِي، أَوْ قُلْتُ لِلإِبْرِيزِ: أَنْتَ مُتَّكَلِي. | 24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; |
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| 25 إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ فَرِحْتُ إِذْ كَثُرَتْ ثَرْوَتِي وَلأَنَّ يَدِي وَجَدَتْ كَثِيرًا. | 25 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; |
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| 26 إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ نَظَرْتُ إِلَى النُّورِ حِينَ ضَاءَ، أَوْ إِلَى الْقَمَرِ يَسِيرُ بِالْبَهَاءِ، | 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; |
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| 27 وَغَوِيَ قَلْبِي سِرًّا، وَلَثَمَ يَدِي فَمِي، | 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: |
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| 28 فَهذَا أَيْضًا إِثْمٌ يُعْرَضُ لِلْقُضَاةِ، لأَنِّي أَكُونُ قَدْ جَحَدْتُ اللهَ مِنْ فَوْقُ. | 28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. |
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| 29 «إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ فَرِحْتُ بِبَلِيَّةِ مُبْغِضِي أَوْ شَمِتُّ حِينَ أَصَابَهُ سُوءٌ. | 29 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: |
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| 30 بَلْ لَمْ أَدَعْ حَنَكِي يُخْطِئُ فِي طَلَبِ نَفْسِهِ بِلَعْنَةٍ. | 30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. |
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| 31 إِنْ كَانَ أَهْلُ خَيْمَتِي لَمْ يَقُولُوا: مَنْ يَأْتِي بِأَحَدٍ لَمْ يَشْبَعْ مِنْ طَعَامِهِ؟ | 31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. |
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| 32 غَرِيبٌ لَمْ يَبِتْ فِي الْخَارِجِ. فَتَحْتُ لِلْمُسَافِرِ أَبْوَابِي. | 32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. |
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| 33 إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ كَتَمْتُ كَالنَّاسِ ذَنْبِي لإِخْفَاءِ إِثْمِي فِي حِضْنِي. | 33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: |
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| 34 إِذْ رَهِبْتُ جُمْهُورًا غَفِيرًا، وَرَوَّعَتْنِي إِهَانَةُ الْعَشَائِرِ، فَكَفَفْتُ وَلَمْ أَخْرُجْ مِنَ الْبَابِ. | 34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door? |
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| 35 مَنْ لِي بِمَنْ يَسْمَعُنِي؟ هُوَذَا إِمْضَائِي. لِيُجِبْنِي الْقَدِيرُ. وَمَنْ لِي بِشَكْوَى كَتَبَهَا خَصْمِي، | 35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. |
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| 36 فَكُنْتُ أَحْمِلُهَا عَلَى كَتِفِي. كُنْتُ أُعْصِبُهَا تَاجًا لِي. | 36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. |
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| 37 كُنْتُ أُخْبِرُهُ بِعَدَدِ خَطَوَاتِي وَأَدْنُو مِنْهُ كَشَرِيفٍ. | 37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. |
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| 38 إِنْ كَانَتْ أَرْضِي قَدْ صَرَخَتْ عَلَيَّ وَتَبَاكَتْ أَتْلاَمُهَا جَمِيعًا. | 38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; |
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| 39 إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ أَكَلْتُ غَلَّتَهَا بِلاَ فِضَّةٍ، أَوْ أَطْفَأْتُ أَنْفُسَ أَصْحَابِهَا، | 39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: |
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| 40 فَعِوَضَ الْحِنْطَةِ لِيَنْبُتْ شَوْكٌ، وَبَدَلَ الشَّعِيرِ زَوَانٌ». تَمَّتْ أَقْوَالُ أَيُّوبَ. | 40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. |
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