איוב 4
| ויען אליפז התימני ויאמר | 1 |
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
| הנסה דבר אליך תלאה ועצר במלין מי יוכל | 2 |
"If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
| הנה יסרת רבים וידים רפות תחזק | 3 |
Look, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
| כושל יקימון מליך וברכים כרעות תאמץ | 4 |
Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.
| כי עתה תבוא אליך ותלא תגע עדיך ותבהל | 5 |
But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
| הלא יראתך כסלתך תקותך ותם דרכיך | 6 |
Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope?
| זכר-נא--מי הוא נקי אבד ואיפה ישרים נכחדו | 7 |
"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
| כאשר ראיתי חרשי און וזרעי עמל יקצרהו | 8 |
According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
| מנשמת אלוה יאבדו ומרוח אפו יכלו | 9 |
By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
| שאגת אריה וקול שחל ושני כפירים נתעו | 10 |
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
| ליש אבד מבלי-טרף ובני לביא יתפרדו | 11 |
The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
| ואלי דבר יגנב ותקח אזני שמץ מנהו | 12 |
"Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.
| בשעפים מחזינות לילה בנפל תרדמה על-אנשים | 13 |
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
| פחד קראני ורעדה ורב עצמותי הפחיד | 14 |
fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
| ורוח על-פני יחלף תסמר שערת בשרי | 15 |
Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.
| יעמד ולא אכיר מראהו-- תמונה לנגד עיני דממה וקול אשמע | 16 |
It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,
| האנוש מאלוה יצדק אם מעשהו יטהר-גבר | 17 |
'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
| הן בעבדיו לא יאמין ובמלאכיו ישים תהלה | 18 |
Look, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
| אף שכני בתי-חמר--אשר-בעפר יסודם ידכאום לפני-עש | 19 |
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.
| מבקר לערב יכתו מבלי משים לנצח יאבדו | 20 |
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
| הלא-נסע יתרם בם ימותו ולא בחכמה | 21 |
Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
