1 فلهذا اضطرب قلبي وخفق من موضعه. | 1 At this, my very heart quakes and leaps out of its place. |
2 اسمعوا سماعا رعد صوته والزمزمة الخارجة من فيه. | 2 Listen, oh listen, to the blast of his voice and the sound that issues from his mouth. |
3 تحت كل السموات يطلقها كذا نوره الى اكناف الارض. | 3 His lightning is hurled across the heaven, it strikes to the extremities of earth. |
4 بعد يزمجر صوت يرعد بصوت جلاله ولا يؤخرها اذ سمع صوته. | 4 After it comes a roaring sound, God thunders with majestic voice. He does not check his thunderboltsuntil his voice resounds no more. |
5 الله يرعد بصوته عجبا. يصنع عظائم لا ندركها. | 5 Yes, certainly God shows us marvels and does great deeds that we cannot understand. |
6 لانه يقول للثلج اسقط على الارض. كذا لوابل المطر وابل امطار عزه. | 6 When he says to the snow, 'Fal on the earth!' to the showers, 'Now rain hard!' |
7 يختم على يد كل انسان ليعلم كل الناس خالقهم. | 7 he brings al human activity to a standstil , for everyone to acknowledge his work. |
8 فتدخل الحيوانات المآوي وتستقر في اوجرتها. | 8 The animals go back to their dens and take shelter in their lairs. |
9 من الجنوب تأتي الاعصار ومن الشمال البرد. | 9 The storm wind comes from the Mansion of the South, and the north winds usher in the cold. |
10 من نسمة الله يجعل الجمد وتتضيق سعة المياه. | 10 At the breath of God, ice comes next, the surface of the waters hardens over. |
11 ايضا بريّ يطرح الغيم. يبدد سحاب نوره. | 11 He weighs the clouds down with moisture, and the storm clouds radiate his lightning. |
12 فهي مدورة متقلبة بادارته لتفعل كل ما يأمر به على وجه الارض المسكونة | 12 He himself guides their wheeling motion presiding over their seasonal changes. They carry out hisorders to the letter al over this earthly world. |
13 سواء كان للتأديب او لارضه او للرحمة يرسلها | 13 Whether to punish earth's peoples or as a work of faithful love, he despatches them. |
14 انصت الى هذا يا ايوب وقف وتأمل بعجائب الله. | 14 Listen to this, Job, without flinching and reflect on the marvel ous works of God. |
15 أتدرك انتباه الله اليها او اضاءة نور سحابه. | 15 Do you know how God controls them or how his clouds make the lightning flash? |
16 أتدرك موازنة السحاب معجزات الكامل المعارف. | 16 Do you know how he balances the clouds -- a miracle of consummate skil ? |
17 كيف تسخن ثيابك اذا سكنت الارض من ريح الجنوب. | 17 When your clothes are hot to your body and the earth lies stil under the south wind, |
18 هل صفّحت معه الجلد الممكّن كالمرآة المسبوكة. | 18 can you, like him, stretch out the sky, tempered like a mirror of cast metal? |
19 علّمنا ما نقول له اننا لا نحسن الكلام بسبب الظلمة. | 19 Teach me what we should say to him: but better discuss no further, since we are in the dark. |
20 هل يقص عليه كلامي اذا تكلمت. هل ينطق الانسان لكي يبتلع. | 20 Does he take note when I speak? When human beings give orders, does he take it in? |
21 والآن لا يرى النور الباهر الذي هو في الجلد ثم تعبر الريح فتنقّيه. | 21 There are times when the light vanishes, behind darkening clouds; then comes the wind, sweepingthem away. |
22 من الشمال يأتي ذهب. عند الله جلال مرهب. | 22 and brightness spreads from the north. God is clothed in fearful splendour: |
23 القدير لا ندركه. عظيم القوة والحق وكثير البر. لا يجاوب. | 23 he, Shaddai, is far beyond our reach. Supreme in power, in equity, excel ing in saving justice, yet nooppressor- |
24 لذلك فلتخفه الناس. كل حكيم القلب لا يراعي | 24 no wonder then that people fear him: everyone thoughtful holds him in awe! |