Job 15
1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
| ויען אליפז התימני ויאמר׃ |
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
| החכם יענה דעת רוח וימלא קדים בטנו׃ |
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?
| הוכח בדבר לא יסכון ומלים לא יועיל בם׃ |
4 Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.
| אף אתה תפר יראה ותגרע שיחה לפני אל׃ |
5 For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
| כי יאלף עונך פיך ותבחר לשון ערומים׃ |
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yes, your own lips testify against you.
| ירשיעך פיך ולא אני ושפתיך יענו בך׃ |
7 Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?
| הראישון אדם תולד ולפני גבעות חוללת׃ |
8 Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?
| הבסוד אלוה תשמע ותגרע אליך חכמה׃ |
9 What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?
| מה ידעת ולא נדע תבין ולא עמנו הוא׃ |
10 With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much elder than your father.
| גם שב גם ישיש בנו כביר מאביך ימים׃ |
11 Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing with you?
| המעט ממך תנחמות אל ודבר לאט עמך׃ |
12 Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,
| מה יקחך לבך ומה ירזמון עיניך׃ |
13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
| כי תשיב אל אל רוחך והצאת מפיך מלין׃ |
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
| מה אנוש כי יזכה וכי יצדק ילוד אשה׃ |
15 Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
| הן בקדשו לא יאמין ושמים לא זכו בעיניו׃ |
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?
| אף כי נתעב ונאלח איש שתה כמים עולה׃ |
17 I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
| אחוך שמע לי וזה חזיתי ואספרה׃ |
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
| אשר חכמים יגידו ולא כחדו מאבותם׃ |
19 To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
| להם לבדם נתנה הארץ ולא עבר זר בתוכם׃ |
20 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
| כל ימי רשע הוא מתחולל ומספר שנים נצפנו לעריץ׃ |
21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
| קול פחדים באזניו בשלום שודד יבואנו׃ |
22 He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
| לא יאמין שוב מני חשך וצפו הוא אלי חרב׃ |
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
| נדד הוא ללחם איה ידע כי נכון בידו יום חשך׃ |
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
| יבעתהו צר ומצוקה תתקפהו כמלך עתיד לכידור׃ |
25 For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty.
| כי נטה אל אל ידו ואל שדי יתגבר׃ |
26 He runs on him, even on his neck, on the thick bosses of his bucklers:
| ירוץ אליו בצואר בעבי גבי מגניו׃ |
27 Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes bulges of fat on his flanks.
| כי כסה פניו בחלבו ויעש פימה עלי כסל׃ |
28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
| וישכון ערים נכחדות בתים לא ישבו למו אשר התעתדו לגלים׃ |
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof on the earth.
| לא יעשר ולא יקום חילו ולא יטה לארץ מנלם׃ |
30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
| לא יסור מני חשך ינקתו תיבש שלהבת ויסור ברוח פיו׃ |
31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.
| אל יאמן בשו נתעה כי שוא תהיה תמורתו׃ |
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
| בלא יומו תמלא וכפתו לא רעננה׃ |
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
| יחמס כגפן בסרו וישלך כזית נצתו׃ |
34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
| כי עדת חנף גלמוד ואש אכלה אהלי שחד׃ |
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.
| הרה עמל וילד און ובטנם תכין מרמה׃ |
