איוב 15
| ויען אליפז התימני ויאמר | 1 |
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:
| החכם יענה דעת-רוח וימלא קדים בטנו | 2 |
Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
| הוכח בדבר לא-יסכון ומלים לא-יועיל בם | 3 |
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
| אף-אתה תפר יראה ותגרע שיחה לפני-אל | 4 |
Yea, thou doest away with fear, and impairest devotion before God.
| כי יאלף עונך פיך ותבחר לשון ערומים | 5 |
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
| ירשיעך פיך ולא-אני ושפתיך יענו-בך | 6 |
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
| הראישון אדם תולד ולפני גבעות חוללת | 7 |
Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
| הבסוד אלוה תשמע ותגרע אליך חכמה | 8 |
Dost thou hearken in the council of God? And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
| מה-ידעת ולא נדע תבין ולא-עמנו הוא | 9 |
What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
| גם-שב גם-ישיש בנו-- כביר מאביך ימים | 10 |
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.
| המעט ממך תנחומות אל ודבר לאט עמך | 11 |
Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word that dealeth gently with thee?
| מה-יקחך לבך ומה-ירזמון עיניך | 12 |
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes wink?
| כי-תשיב אל-אל רוחך והצאת מפיך מלין | 13 |
That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth.
| מה-אנוש כי-יזכה וכי-יצדק ילוד אשה | 14 |
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
| הן בקדשו לא יאמין ושמים לא-זכו בעיניו | 15 |
Behold, He putteth no trust in His holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.
| אף כי-נתעב ונאלח איש-שתה כמים עולה | 16 |
How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!
| אחוך שמע-לי וזה-חזיתי ואספרה | 17 |
I will tell thee, hear thou me; and that which I have seen I will declare —
| אשר-חכמים יגידו ולא כחדו מאבותם | 18 |
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it;
| להם לבדם נתנה הארץ ולא-עבר זר בתוכם | 19 |
Unto whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.
| כל-ימי רשע הוא מתחולל ומספר שנים נצפנו לעריץ | 20 |
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
| קול-פחדים באזניו בשלום שודד יבואנו | 21 |
A sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
| לא-יאמין שוב מני-חשך וצפו (וצפוי) הוא אלי-חרב | 22 |
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
| נדד הוא ללחם איה ידע כי-נכון בידו יום-חשך | 23 |
He wandereth abroad for bread: 'Where is it?' He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
| יבעתהו צר ומצוקה תתקפהו כמלך עתיד לכידור | 24 |
Distress and anguish overwhelm him; they prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
| כי-נטה אל-אל ידו ואל-שדי יתגבר | 25 |
Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, and behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;
| ירוץ אליו בצואר בעבי גבי מגניו | 26 |
He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers.
| כי-כסה פניו בחלבו ויעש פימה עלי-כסל | 27 |
Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his loins;
| וישכון ערים נכחדות--בתים לא-ישבו למו אשר התעתדו לגלים | 28 |
And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man would inhabit, which were ready to become heaps.
| לא-יעשר ולא-יקום חילו ולא-יטה לארץ מנלם | 29 |
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their produce bend to the earth.
| לא-יסור מני-חשך--ינקתו תיבש שלהבת ויסור ברוח פיו | 30 |
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of His mouth shall he go away.
| אל-יאמן בשו נתעה כי-שוא תהיה תמורתו | 31 |
Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; for vanity shall be his recompense.
| בלא-יומו תמלא וכפתו לא רעננה | 32 |
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be leafy.
| יחמס כגפן בסרו וישלך כזית נצתו | 33 |
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
| כי-עדת חנף גלמוד ואש אכלה אהלי-שחד | 34 |
For the company of the godless shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
| הרה עמל וילד און ובטנם תכין מרמה | 35 |
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
