Job 38
1 And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,
| ויען-יהוה את-איוב מנהסערה (מן הסערה) ויאמר |
2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?
| מי זה מחשיך עצה במלין-- בלי-דעת |
3 Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
| אזר-נא כגבר חלציך ואשאלך והודיעני |
4 Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.
| איפה היית ביסדי-ארץ הגד אם-ידעת בינה |
5 By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
| מי-שם ממדיה כי תדע או מי-נטה עליה קו |
6 On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,
| על-מה אדניה הטבעו או מי-ירה אבן פנתה |
7 When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?
| ברן-יחד כוכבי בקר ויריעו כל-בני אלהים |
8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;
| ויסך בדלתים ים בגיחו מרחם יצא |
9 When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,
| בשומי ענן לבשו וערפל חתלתו |
10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;
| ואשבר עליו חקי ואשים בריח ודלתים |
11 And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
| ואמר--עד-פה תבוא ולא תסיף ופא-ישית בגאון גליך |
12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;
| המימיך צוית בקר ידעתה שחר (ידעת השחר) מקמו |
13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?
| לאחז בכנפות הארץ וינערו רשעים ממנה |
14 It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;
| תתהפך כחמר חותם ויתיצבו כמו לבוש |
15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.
| וימנע מרשעים אורם וזרוע רמה תשבר |
16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?
| הבאת עד-נבכי-ים ובחקר תהום התהלכת |
17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
| הנגלו לך שערי-מות ושערי צלמות תראה |
18 Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.
| התבננת עד-רחבי-ארץ הגד אם-ידעת כלה |
19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;
| אי-זה הדרך ישכן-אור וחשך אי-זה מקמו |
20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?
| כי תקחנו אל-גבולו וכי-תבין נתיבות ביתו |
21 No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.
| ידעת כי-אז תולד ומספר ימיך רבים |
22 Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,
| הבאת אל-אצרות שלג ואוצרות ברד תראה |
23 Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?
| אשר-חשכתי לעת-צר ליום קרב ומלחמה |
24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?
| אי-זה הדרך יחלק אור יפץ קדים עלי-ארץ |
25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;
| מי-פלג לשטף תעלה ודרך לחזיז קלות |
26 Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;
| להמטיר על-ארץ לא-איש-- מדבר לא-אדם בו |
27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
| להשביע שאה ומשאה ולהצמיח מצא דשא |
28 Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?
| היש-למטר אב או מי-הוליד אגלי-טל |
29 Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?
| מבטן מי יצא הקרח וכפר שמים מי ילדו |
30 The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.
| כאבן מים יתחבאו ופני תהום יתלכדו |
31 Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?
| התקשר מעדנות כימה או-משכות כסיל תפתח |
32 Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?
| התציא מזרות בעתו ועיש על-בניה תנחם |
33 Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?
| הידעת חקות שמים אם-תשים משטרו בארץ |
34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?
| התרים לעב קולך ושפעת-מים תכסך |
35 Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?
| התשלח ברקים וילכו ויאמרו לך הננו |
36 Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?
| מי-שת בטחות חכמה או מי-נתן לשכוי בינה |
37 By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,
| מי-יספר שחקים בחכמה ונבלי שמים מי ישכיב |
38 When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?
| בצקת עפר למוצק ורגבים ידבקו |
39 Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,
| התצוד ללביא טרף וחית כפירים תמלא |
40 When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?
| כי-ישחו במעונות ישבו בסכה למו-ארב |
41 Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?
| מי יכין לערב צידו כי-ילדו אל-אל ישועו יתעו לבלי-אכל |
