Job 16
1 Then Job answered, and said,
| ויען איוב ויאמר |
2 I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are ye all.
| שמעתי כאלה רבות מנחמי עמל כלכם |
3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer?
| הקץ לדברי-רוח או מה-ימריצך כי תענה |
4 I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
| גם אנכי-- ככם אדברה לו יש נפשכם תחת נפשי-- אחבירה עליכם במלים ואניעה עליכם במו ראשי |
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your grief.
| אאמצכם במו-פי וניד שפתי יחשך |
6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, and though I forbear, what am I eased?
| אם-אדברה לא-יחשך כאבי ואחדלה מה-מני יהלך |
7 But now he has made me weary. Thou have made desolate all my company.
| אך-עתה הלאני השמות כל-עדתי |
8 And thou have laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.
| ותקמטני לעד היה ויקם בי כחשי בפני יענה |
9 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me.
| אפו טרף וישטמני--חרק עלי בשניו צרי ילטש עיניו לי |
10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth. They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
| פערו עלי בפיהם--בחרפה הכו לחיי יחד עלי יתמלאון |
11 God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
| יסגירני אל אל עויל ועל-ידי רשעים ירטני |
12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark.
| שלו הייתי ויפרפרני-- ואחז בערפי ויפצפצני ויקימני לו למטרה |
13 His archers encompass me round about. He splits my reins apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall upon the ground.
| יסבו עלי רביו-- יפלח כליותי ולא יחמל ישפך לארץ מררתי |
14 He breaks me with breach upon breach. He runs upon me like a giant.
| יפרצני פרץ על-פני-פרץ ירץ עלי כגבור |
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.
| שק תפרתי עלי גלדי ועללתי בעפר קרני |
16 My face is red with weeping, and the shadow of death is on my eyelids,
| פני חמרמרה (חמרמרו) מני-בכי ועל עפעפי צלמות |
17 although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
| על לא-חמס בכפי ותפלתי זכה |
18 O earth, do not cover thou my blood, and let my cry have no resting place.
| ארץ אל-תכסי דמי ואל-יהי מקום לזעקתי |
19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who vouches for me is on high.
| גם-עתה הנה-בשמים עדי ושהדי במרמים |
20 My friends scoff at me. My eye pours out tears to God
| מליצי רעי אל-אלוה דלפה עיני |
21 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbor!
| ויוכח לגבר עם-אלוה ובן-אדם לרעהו |
22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way where I shall not return.
| כי-שנות מספר יאתיו וארח לא-אשוב אהלך |
