Job 16
1 Then Job, answering, said:
| ויען איוב ויאמר |
2 I have often heard such things; you are all aggravating comforters.
| שמעתי כאלה רבות מנחמי עמל כלכם |
3 Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?
| הקץ לדברי-רוח או מה-ימריצך כי תענה |
4 I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul. I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.
| גם אנכי-- ככם אדברה לו יש נפשכם תחת נפשי-- אחבירה עליכם במלים ואניעה עליכם במו ראשי |
5 I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.
| אאמצכם במו-פי וניד שפתי יחשך |
6 But what can I do? When I am speaking, my grief will not be quiet; and if I am quiet, it will not withdraw from me.
| אם-אדברה לא-יחשך כאבי ואחדלה מה-מני יהלך |
7 But now my grief has crushed me, and all my limbs have been reduced to nothing.
| אך-עתה הלאני השמות כל-עדתי |
8 My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a liar rises up against my face, contradicting me.
| ותקמטני לעד היה ויקם בי כחשי בפני יענה |
9 He has gathered together his fury towards me, and, threatening me, he has roared against me with his teeth; my enemy has beheld me with terrible eyes.
| אפו טרף וישטמני--חרק עלי בשניו צרי ילטש עיניו לי |
10 They have opened their mouths against me, and, reproaching me, they have struck me on the cheek; they are nourished by my sufferings.
| פערו עלי בפיהם--בחרפה הכו לחיי יחד עלי יתמלאון |
11 God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.
| יסגירני אל אל עויל ועל-ידי רשעים ירטני |
12 I, who once was wealthy, am now crushed. He has grabbed me by my neck; he has broken me and has placed me before him as a sign.
| שלו הייתי ויפרפרני-- ואחז בערפי ויפצפצני ויקימני לו למטרה |
13 He has surrounded me with his lances. He has severely wounded my lower back, he has not been lenient, and he has poured out my organs upon the earth.
| יסבו עלי רביו-- יפלח כליותי ולא יחמל ישפך לארץ מררתי |
14 He has cut me with wound after wound. He has rushed upon me like a giant.
| יפרצני פרץ על-פני-פרץ ירץ עלי כגבור |
15 I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and I have covered my body with ashes.
| שק תפרתי עלי גלדי ועללתי בעפר קרני |
16 My face is swollen from weeping, and my eyelids have dimmed my vision.
| פני חמרמרה (חמרמרו) מני-בכי ועל עפעפי צלמות |
17 These things I have endured without iniquity in my hand, while I held pure prayers before God.
| על לא-חמס בכפי ותפלתי זכה |
18 O earth, do not conceal my blood, nor let my outcry find a hiding place in you.
| ארץ אל-תכסי דמי ואל-יהי מקום לזעקתי |
19 For behold, my witness is in heaven, and my confidante is on high.
| גם-עתה הנה-בשמים עדי ושהדי במרמים |
20 My friends are full of words; my eye rains tears upon God.
| מליצי רעי אל-אלוה דלפה עיני |
21 And I wish that a man might be so judged before God, just as the son of man is judged with his assistant!
| ויוכח לגבר עם-אלוה ובן-אדם לרעהו |
22 For behold, a few years pass by, and I am walking a path by which I will not return.
| כי-שנות מספר יאתיו וארח לא-אשוב אהלך |
