| 1 فاجاب اليفاز التيماني وقال | 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: |
| 2 ان امتحن احد كلمة معك فهل تستاء. ولكن من يستطيع الامتناع عن الكلام. | 2 "If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? Yet who can keep from speaking? |
| 3 ها انت قد ارشدت كثيرين وشددت ايادي مرتخية. | 3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. |
| 4 قد اقام كلامك العاثر وثبت الركب المرتعشة. | 4 Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. |
| 5 والآن اذ جاء عليك ضجرت. اذ مسّك ارتعت. | 5 But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed. |
| 6 أليست تقواك هي معتمدك ورجاؤك كمال طرقك. | 6 Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope? |
| 7 اذكر من هلك وهو بري واين أبيد المستقيمون. | 7 "Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off? |
| 8 كما قد رايت ان الحارثين اثما والزارعين شقاوة يحصدونها. | 8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. |
| 9 بنسمة الله يبيدون وبريح انفه يفنون. | 9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. |
| 10 زمجرة الاسد وصوت الزئير وانياب الاشبال تكسرت. | 10 The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken. |
| 11 الليث هالك لعدم الفريسة واشبال اللبوة تبددت | 11 The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered. |
| 12 ثم اليّ تسللت كلمة فقبلت اذني منها ركزا. | 12 "Now a word was brought to me stealthily, my ear received the whisper of it. |
| 13 في الهواجس من رؤى الليل عند وقوع سبات على الناس | 13 Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, |
| 14 اصابني رعب ورعدة فرجفت كل عظامي. | 14 dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. |
| 15 فمرّت روح على وجهي. اقشعر شعر جسدي. | 15 A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. |
| 16 وقفت ولكني لم اعرف منظرها. شبه قدام عينيّ. سمعت صوتا منخفضا | 16 It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice: |
| 17 أالانسان ابرّ من الله ام الرجل اطهر من خالقه. | 17 'Can mortal man be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker? |
| 18 هوذا عبيده لا يأتمنهم والى ملائكته ينسب حماقة. | 18 Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; |
| 19 فكم بالحري سكان بيوت من طين الذين اساسهم في التراب ويسحقون مثل العث. | 19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth. |
| 20 بين الصباح والمساء يحطمون. بدون منتبه اليهم الى الابد يبيدون | 20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish for ever without any regarding it. |
| 21 أما انتزعت منهم طنبهم. يموتون بلا حكمة | 21 If their tent-cord is plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?' |
