Job 17

NEW JERUSALEM	SMITH VAN DYKE
1 My breathing is growing weaker and the gravediggers are gathering for me.	1 روحي تلفت. ايامي انطفأت. انما القبور لي
2 Scoffers are my only companions, their harshness haunts my nights.	2 لولا المخاتلون عندي وعيني تبيت على مشاجراتهم.
3 So you must go bail for me to yourself, for which of them cares to clap his hand on mine?	3 كن ضامني عند نفسك. من هو الذي يصفق يدي.
4 For you have shut their hearts to reason, hence not a hand is lifted.	4 لانك منعت قلبهم عن الفطنة. لاجل ذلك لا ترفعهم.
5 Just so is a man who invites his friends to share his property while the eyes of his own childrenlanguish.	5 الذي يسلم الاصحاب للسلب تتلف عيون بنيه.
6 I have become a byword among foreigners, and a creature on whose face to spit,	6 اوقفني مثلا للشعوب وصرت للبصق في الوجه.
7 since I am nearly blind with grief and my limbs are reduced to a shadow.	7 كلت عيني من الحزن واعضائي كلها كالظل.
8 Any honest person is appal ed at the sight, the innocent is indignant at the sinner.	8 يتعجب المستقيمون من هذا والبريء ينتهض على الفاجر.
9 Anyone upright grows stronger step by step: and anyone whose hands are clean grows ever in vigour!	9 اما الصدّيق فيستمسك بطريقه والطاهر اليدين يزداد قوة
10 Come on then, al of you, back to the attack! I shall not find one wise man among you!	10 ولكن ارجعوا كلكم وتعالوا فلا اجد فيكم حكيما.
11 My days are over, so are my plans, my heart-strings are broken;	11 ايامي قد عبرت. مقاصدي إرث قلبي قد انتزعت.
12 yet they would have me believe that night is day, that light to dispel the darkness is at hand,	12 يجعلون الليل نهارا نورا قريبا للظلمة.
13 when al I want, in fact, is to dwel in Sheol and in that darkness there to make my bed!	13 اذا رجوت الهاوية بيتا لي وفي الظلام مهدت فراشي
14 To the tomb, I cry, 'You are my father!' -- to the worm, 'You are my mother-you, my sister!'	14 وقلت للقبر انت ابي وللدود انت امي واختي
15 Where then is my hope? Who can see any happiness for me?	15 فاين اذا آمالي. آمالي. من يعاينها.
16 unless they come down to Sheol with me, all of us sinking into the dust together?	16 تهبط الى مغاليق الهاوية اذ ترتاح معا في التراب