1 فَأَجَابَ أَيُّوبُ وَقَالَ: 2 «ٱلْيَوْمَ أَيْضًا شَكْوَايَ تَمَرُّدٌ. ضَرْبَتِي أَثْقَلُ مِنْ تَنَهُّدِي. 3 مَنْ يُعْطِينِي أَنْ أَجِدَهُ، فَآتِيَ إِلَى كُرْسِيِّهِ، 4 أُحْسِنُ ٱلدَّعْوَى أَمَامَهُ، وَأَمْلَأُ فَمِي حُجَجًا، 5 فَأَعْرِفُ ٱلْأَقْوَالَ ٱلَّتِي بِهَا يُجِيبُنِي، وَأَفْهَمُ مَا يَقُولُهُ لِي؟ 6 أَبِكَثْرَةِ قُوَّةٍ يُخَاصِمُنِي؟ كَّلَّا! وَلَكِنَّهُ كَانَ يَنْتَبِهُ إِلَيَّ. 7 هُنَالِكَ كَانَ يُحَاجُّهُ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمُ، وَكُنْتُ أَنْجُو إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ مِنْ قَاضِيَّ. 8 هَأَنَذَا أَذْهَبُ شَرْقًا فَلَيْسَ هُوَ هُنَاكَ، وَغَرْبًا فَلَا أَشْعُرُ بِهِ. 9 شِمَالًا حَيْثُ عَمَلُهُ فَلَا أَنْظُرُهُ. يَتَعَطَّفُ ٱلْجَنُوبَ فَلَا أَرَاهُ. 10 «لِأَنَّهُ يَعْرِفُ طَرِيقِي. إِذَا جَرَّبَنِي أَخْرُجُ كَٱلذَّهَبِ. 11 بِخَطَوَاتِهِ ٱسْتَمْسَكَتْ رِجْلِي. حَفِظْتُ طَرِيقَهُ وَلَمْ أَحِدْ. 12 مِنْ وَصِيَّةِ شَفَتَيْهِ لَمْ أَبْرَحْ. أَكْثَرَ مِنْ فَرِيضَتِي ذَخَرْتُ كَلَامَ فِيهِ. 13 أَمَّا هُوَ فَوَحْدَهُ، فَمَنْ يَرُدُّهُ؟ وَنَفْسُهُ تَشْتَهِي فَيَفْعَلُ. 14 لِأَنَّهُ يُتَمِّمُ ٱلْمَفْرُوضَ عَلَيَّ، وَكَثِيرٌ مِثْلُ هَذِهِ عِنْدَهُ. 15 مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ أَرْتَاعُ قُدَّامَهُ. أَتَأَمَّلُ فَأَرْتَعِبُ مِنْهُ. 16 لِأَنَّ ٱللهَ قَدْ أَضْعَفَ قَلْبِي، وَٱلْقَدِيرَ رَوَّعَنِي. 17 لِأَنِّي لَمْ أُقْطَعْ قَبْلَ ٱلظَّلَامِ، وَمِنْ وَجْهِي لَمْ يُغَطِّ ٱلدُّجَى.
Job · Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
Job 23 Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
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Notes on this text (3)
- Fully vowelled Arabic, read right to left.
- No deuterocanonical books.
- Verse divisions occasionally differ from English Bibles (e.g. 1 Timothy 6:21–22, 3 John 14–15).
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Job 10:1; Job 7:11; Psalm 32:4; Job 6:2–3; Psalm 77:2–9
- 3 Job 16:21; Job 31:35–37; Hebrews 4:6; Jeremiah 14:7; Job 13:3
- 4 Job 13:18; Daniel 9:18–19; Job 37:19; Genesis 18:25–32; Joshua 7:8–9
- 5 1 Corinthians 4:3–4; Job 13:22–23; Job 10:2; Job 42:2–6
- 6 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; Job 13:21; Job 9:33–34; Ezekiel 20:35; Job 9:19
- 7 Job 13:3; Isaiah 1:18; Romans 8:1; Jeremiah 12:1; Jeremiah 3:5
- 8 Psalm 10:1; Job 9:11; Job 35:14; 1 Timothy 6:16; Psalm 13:1–3
- 9 Isaiah 8:17; Psalm 89:46
- 10 James 1:12; 1 Peter 1:7; James 1:2–4; Psalm 139:1–3; Zechariah 13:9
- 11 Psalm 44:18; 2 Peter 2:20–22; Psalm 17:5; Psalm 125:5; Romans 2:7
- 12 Jeremiah 15:16; Psalm 119:11; Psalm 119:103; John 4:34; Psalm 19:9–10
- 13 Psalm 115:3; Proverbs 19:21; Isaiah 46:10; Daniel 4:35; Job 12:14
- 14 1 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:9; Psalm 97:2; Romans 11:33; Isaiah 40:27–28
- 15 Psalm 119:120; Job 31:23; Psalm 77:3; Job 10:15; Job 23:3
- 16 Psalm 22:14; Job 27:2; Isaiah 6:5; Psalm 88:16; Deuteronomy 20:3
- 17 Job 19:8; Isaiah 57:1; 2 Kings 22:20; Job 18:6; Job 22:11
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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