Job 16
1 But Job answered and said,
| ויען איוב ויאמר |
2 I have heard many such things: poor comforters are you all.
| שמעתי כאלה רבות מנחמי עמל כלכם |
3 What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder you from answering?
| הקץ לדברי-רוח או מה-ימריצך כי תענה |
4 I also will speak as you [do]: if indeed your soul were in my [soul's] stead, then would I insult you with words, and I would shake my head at you.
| גם אנכי-- ככם אדברה לו יש נפשכם תחת נפשי-- אחבירה עליכם במלים ואניעה עליכם במו ראשי |
5 And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.
| אאמצכם במו-פי וניד שפתי יחשך |
6 For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less?
| אם-אדברה לא-יחשך כאבי ואחדלה מה-מני יהלך |
7 But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and you have laid hold of me.
| אך-עתה הלאני השמות כל-עדתי |
8 My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.
| ותקמטני לעד היה ויקם בי כחשי בפני יענה |
9 In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.
| אפו טרף וישטמני--חרק עלי בשניו צרי ילטש עיניו לי |
10 He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp [spear] he has struck me [down] upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord.
| פערו עלי בפיהם--בחרפה הכו לחיי יחד עלי יתמלאון |
11 For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.
| יסגירני אל אל עויל ועל-ידי רשעים ירטני |
12 When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.
| שלו הייתי ויפרפרני-- ואחז בערפי ויפצפצני ויקימני לו למטרה |
13 They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing [me] they poured out my gall upon the ground.
| יסבו עלי רביו-- יפלח כליותי ולא יחמל ישפך לארץ מררתי |
14 They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in [their] might.
| יפרצני פרץ על-פני-פרץ ירץ עלי כגבור |
15 They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.
| שק תפרתי עלי גלדי ועללתי בעפר קרני |
16 My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.
| פני חמרמרה (חמרמרו) מני-בכי ועל עפעפי צלמות |
17 Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
| על לא-חמס בכפי ותפלתי זכה |
18 Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place.
| ארץ אל-תכסי דמי ואל-יהי מקום לזעקתי |
19 And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
| גם-עתה הנה-בשמים עדי ושהדי במרמים |
20 Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.
| מליצי רעי אל-אלוה דלפה עיני |
21 Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even [as] the son of man with his neighbour!
| ויוכח לגבר עם-אלוה ובן-אדם לרעהו |
22 But my years are numbered and [their end] come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.
| כי-שנות מספר יאתיו וארח לא-אשוב אהלך |
