איוב 15
| ויען אליפז התימני ויאמר׃ | 1 |
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
| החכם יענה דעת רוח וימלא קדים בטנו׃ | 2 |
“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
| הוכח בדבר לא יסכון ומלים לא יועיל בם׃ | 3 |
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
| אף אתה תפר יראה ותגרע שיחה לפני אל׃ | 4 |
Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
| כי יאלף עונך פיך ותבחר לשון ערומים׃ | 5 |
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
| ירשיעך פיך ולא אני ושפתיך יענו בך׃ | 6 |
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
| הראישון אדם תולד ולפני גבעות חוללת׃ | 7 |
“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
| הבסוד אלוה תשמע ותגרע אליך חכמה׃ | 8 |
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
| מה ידעת ולא נדע תבין ולא עמנו הוא׃ | 9 |
What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
| גם שב גם ישיש בנו כביר מאביך ימים׃ | 10 |
With us are both the grey-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
| המעט ממך תנחמות אל ודבר לאט עמך׃ | 11 |
Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle towards you?
| מה יקחך לבך ומה ירזמון עיניך׃ | 12 |
Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
| כי תשיב אל אל רוחך והצאת מפיך מלין׃ | 13 |
that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
| מה אנוש כי יזכה וכי יצדק ילוד אשה׃ | 14 |
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
| הן בקדשו לא יאמין ושמים לא זכו בעיניו׃ | 15 |
Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
| אף כי נתעב ונאלח איש שתה כמים עולה׃ | 16 |
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
| אחוך שמע לי וזה חזיתי ואספרה׃ | 17 |
“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare
| אשר חכמים יגידו ולא כחדו מאבותם׃ | 18 |
(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
| להם לבדם נתנה הארץ ולא עבר זר בתוכם׃ | 19 |
to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed amongst them):
| כל ימי רשע הוא מתחולל ומספר שנים נצפנו לעריץ׃ | 20 |
the wicked man writhes in 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 will come on him.
| לא יאמין שוב מני חשך וצפו הוא אלי חרב׃ | 22 |
He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
| נדד הוא ללחם איה ידע כי נכון בידו יום חשך׃ | 23 |
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
| יבעתהו צר ומצוקה תתקפהו כמלך עתיד לכידור׃ | 24 |
Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
| כי נטה אל אל ידו ואל שדי יתגבר׃ | 25 |
Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
| ירוץ אליו בצואר בעבי גבי מגניו׃ | 26 |
he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
| כי כסה פניו בחלבו ויעש פימה עלי כסל׃ | 27 |
because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
| וישכון ערים נכחדות בתים לא ישבו למו אשר התעתדו לגלים׃ | 28 |
He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
| לא יעשר ולא יקום חילו ולא יטה לארץ מנלם׃ | 29 |
He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
| לא יסור מני חשך ינקתו תיבש שלהבת ויסור ברוח פיו׃ | 30 |
He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
| אל יאמן בשו נתעה כי שוא תהיה תמורתו׃ | 31 |
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
| בלא יומו תמלא וכפתו לא רעננה׃ | 32 |
It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
| יחמס כגפן בסרו וישלך כזית נצתו׃ | 33 |
He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
| כי עדת חנף גלמוד ואש אכלה אהלי שחד׃ | 34 |
For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
| הרה עמל וילד און ובטנם תכין מרמה׃ | 35 |
They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
