| 1 I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin. | 1 عهدا قطعت لعينيّ فكيف اتطلع في عذراء. |
| 2 For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high? | 2 وما هي قسمة الله من فوق ونصيب القدير من الاعالي. |
| 3 Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity? | 3 أليس البوار لعامل الشر والنكر لفاعلي الاثم. |
| 4 Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps? | 4 أليس هو ينظر طرقي ويحصي جميع خطواتي. |
| 5 If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit: | 5 ان كنت قد سلكت مع الكذب او اسرعت رجلي الى الغش. |
| 6 Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity. | 6 ليزنّي في ميزان الحق فيعرف الله كمالي. |
| 7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands: | 7 ان حادت خطواتي عن الطريق وذهب قلبي وراء عينيّ او لصق عيب بكفيّ |
| 8 Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out. | 8 أزرع وغيري يأكل وفروعي تستأصل |
| 9 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door: | 9 ان غوي قلبي على امرأة او كمنت على باب قريبي |
| 10 Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her. | 10 فلتطحن امرأتي لآخر ولينحن عليها آخرون. |
| 11 For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity. | 11 لان هذه رذيلة وهي اثم يعرض للقضاة. |
| 12 It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring. | 12 لانها نار تأكل حتى الى الهلاك وتستأصل كل محصولي |
| 13 If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me: | 13 ان كنت رفضت حق عبدي وامتي في دعواهما عليّ |
| 14 For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him? | 14 فماذا كنت اصنع حين يقوم الله واذا افتقد فبماذا اجيبه. |
| 15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb? | 15 أوليس صانعي في البطن صانعه وقد صوّرنا واحد في الرحم. |
| 16 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait: | 16 ان كنت منعت المساكين عن مرادهم او افنيت عيني الارملة |
| 17 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof: | 17 او اكلت لقمتي وحدي فما اكل منها اليتيم. |
| 18 (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb :) | 18 بل منذ صباي كبر عندي كأب ومن بطن امي هديتها |
| 19 If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering: | 19 ان كنت رأيت هالكا لعدم اللبس او فقيرا بلا كسوة |
| 20 If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep: | 20 ان لم تباركني حقواه وقد استدفأ بجزّة غنمي. |
| 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate: | 21 ان كنت قد هززت يدي على اليتيم لما رأيت عوني في الباب |
| 22 Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken. | 22 فلتسقط عضدي من كتفي ولتنكسر ذراعي من قصبتها. |
| 23 For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear. | 23 لان البوار من الله رعب عليّ ومن جلاله لم استطع |
| 24 If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence: | 24 ان كنت قد جعلت الذهب عمدتي او قلت للابريز انت متكلي. |
| 25 If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much. | 25 ان كنت قد فرحت اذ كثرت ثروتي ولان يدي وجدت كثيرا. |
| 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness: | 26 ان كنت قد نظرت الى النور حين ضاء او الى القمر يسير بالبهاء |
| 27 And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth: | 27 وغوي قلبي سرّا ولثم يدي فمي |
| 28 Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God. | 28 فهذا ايضا اثم يعرض للقضاة لاني اكون قد جحدت الله من فوق |
| 29 If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him. | 29 ان كنت قد فرحت ببليّة مبغضي او شمتّ حين اصابه سوء. |
| 30 For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul. | 30 بل لم ادع حنكي يخطئ في طلب نفسه بلعنة. |
| 31 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled? | 31 ان كان اهل خيمتي لم يقولوا من ياتي باحد لم يشبع من طعامه. |
| 32 The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller. | 32 غريب لم يبت في الخارج. فتحت للمسافر ابوابي. |
| 33 If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom. | 33 ان كنت قد كتمت كالناس ذنبي لاخفاء اثمي في حضني |
| 34 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door. | 34 اذ رهبت جمهورا غفيرا وروّعتني اهانة العشائر فكففت ولم اخرج من الباب |
| 35 Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book, | 35 من لي بمن يسمعني. هوذا امضائي ليجبني القدير. ومن لي بشكوى كتبها خصمي. |
| 36 That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown? | 36 فكنت احملها على كتفي. كنت اعصبها تاجا لي. |
| 37 At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince. | 37 كنت اخبره بعدد خطواتي وادنو منه كشريف ــ |
| 38 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: | 38 ان كانت ارضي قد صرخت عليّ وتباكت اتلامها جميعا |
| 39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof: | 39 ان كنت قد اكلت غلّتها بلا فضة او اطفأت انفس اصحابها |
| 40 Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley. | 40 فعوض الحنطة لينبت شوك وبدل الشعير زوان تمت اقوال ايوب |