Job 4
1 Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,
| ויען אליפז התימני ויאמר׃ |
2 Hast you been often spoken to in distress? but who shall endure the force of your words?
| הנסה דבר אליך תלאה ועצר במלין מי יוכל׃ |
3 For whereas you have instructed many, and have strengthened the hands of the weak one,
| הנה יסרת רבים וידים רפות תחזק׃ |
4 and have supported the failing with words, and have imparted courage to feeble knees.
| כושל יקימון מליך וברכים כרעות תאמץ׃ |
5 Yet now [that] pain has come upon you, and touched you, you are troubled.
| כי עתה תבוא אליך ותלא תגע עדיך ותבהל׃ |
6 Is not your fear [founded] in folly, your hope also, and the mischief of your way?
| הלא יראתך כסלתך תקותך ותם דרכיך׃ |
7 Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed?
| זכר נא מי הוא נקי אבד ואיפה ישרים נכחדו׃ |
8 Accordingly as I have seen men ploughing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.
| כאשר ראיתי חרשי און וזרעי עמל יקצרהו׃ |
9 They shall perish by the command of the Lord, and shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath.
| מנשמת אלוה יאבדו ומרוח אפו יכלו׃ |
10 The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.
| שאגת אריה וקול שחל ושני כפירים נתעו׃ |
11 The old lion has perished for lack of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.
| ליש אבד מבלי טרף ובני לביא יתפרדו׃ |
12 But if there had been any truth in your words, none of these evils would have befallen you. Shall not mine ear receive excellent [revelations] from him?
| ואלי דבר יגנב ותקח אזני שמץ מנהו׃ |
13 But [as when] terror falls upon men, with dread and a sound in the night,
| בשעפים מחזינות לילה בנפל תרדמה על אנשים׃ |
14 horror and trembling seized me, and caused all my bones greatly to shake.
| פחד קראני ורעדה ורב עצמותי הפחיד׃ |
15 And a spirit came before my face; and my hair and flesh quivered.
| ורוח על פני יחלף תסמר שערת בשרי׃ |
16 I arose and perceived it not: I looked, and there, was no form before my eyes: but I only heard a breath and a voice, [saying],
| יעמד ולא אכיר מראהו תמונה לנגד עיני דממה וקול אשמע׃ |
17 What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? or a man be blameless in regard to his works?
| האנוש מאלוה יצדק אם מעשהו יטהר גבר׃ |
18 Whereas he trust not in his servants, and perceives perverseness in his angels.
| הן בעבדיו לא יאמין ובמלאכיו ישים תהלה׃ |
19 But [as for] them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, he smites them like a moth.
| אף שכני בתי חמר אשר בעפר יסודם ידכאום לפני עש׃ |
20 And from the morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they can’t help themselves.
| מבקר לערב יכתו מבלי משים לנצח יאבדו׃ |
21 For he blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of wisdom.
| הלא נסע יתרם בם ימותו ולא בחכמה׃ |
