Giobbe (ايوب) 17

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