Job 21
1 But Job answered and said,
| ויען איוב ויאמר |
2 Hear you, hear you my words, that I may not have this consolation from you.
| שמעו שמוע מלתי ותהי-זאת תנחומתיכם |
3 Raise me, and I will speak; then you shall not laugh me to scorn.
| שאוני ואנכי אדבר ואחר דברי תלעיג |
4 What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry?
| האנכי לאדם שיחי ואם-מדוע לא-תקצר רוחי |
5 Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.
| פנו-אלי והשמו ושימו יד על-פה |
6 For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.
| ואם-זכרתי ונבהלתי ואחז בשרי פלצות |
7 Therefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?
| מדוע רשעים יחיו עתקו גם-גברו חיל |
8 Their seed is according to [their] desire, and their children are in [their] sight.
| זרעם נכון לפניהם עמם וצאצאיהם לעיניהם |
9 Their houses are prosperous, neither [have they] any where [cause for] fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.
| בתיהם שלום מפחד ולא שבט אלוה עליהם |
10 Their cow does not cast her calf, and their [beast] with young is safe, and does not miscarry.
| שורו עבר ולא יגעל תפלט פרתו ולא תשכל |
11 And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before [them], taking up the lute and harp;
| ישלחו כצאן עויליהם וילדיהם ירקדון |
12 and they rejoice at the voice of a song.
| ישאו כתף וכנור וישמחו לקול עוגב |
| יבלו (יכלו) בטוב ימיהם וברגע שאול יחתו (Sheol h7585) |
14 Yet [such a man] says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know your ways.
| ויאמרו לאל סור ממנו ודעת דרכיך לא חפצנו |
15 What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?
| מה-שדי כי-נעבדנו ומה-נועיל כי נפגע-בו |
16 For their good things were in [their] hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly.
| הן לא בידם טובם עצת רשעים רחקה מני |
17 Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.
| כמה נר-רשעים ידעך-- ויבא עלימו אידם חבלים יחלק באפו |
18 And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.
| יהיו כתבן לפני-רוח וכמץ גנבתו סופה |
19 Let his substance fail [to supply] his children: [God] shall recompense him, and he shall know it.
| אלוה יצפן-לבניו אונו ישלם אליו וידע |
20 Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.
| יראו עינו כידו ומחמת שדי ישתה |
21 For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.
| כי מה-חפצו בביתו אחריו ומספר חדשיו חצצו |
22 Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders?
| הלאל ילמד-דעת והוא רמים ישפוט |
23 One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;
| זה--ימות בעצם תמו כלו שלאנן ושליו |
24 and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused [throughout him].
| עטיניו מלאו חלב ומח עצמותיו ישקה |
25 And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing.
| וזה--ימות בנפש מרה ולא-אכל בטובה |
26 But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them.
| יחד על-עפר ישכבו ורמה תכסה עליהם |
27 So I know you, that you presumptuously attack me:
| הן ידעתי מחשבותיכם ומזמות עלי תחמסו |
28 so that you will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?
| כי תאמרו איה בית-נדיב ואיה אהל משכנות רשעים |
29 Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens.
| הלא שאלתם עוברי דרך ואתתם לא תנכרו |
30 For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.
| כי ליום איד יחשך רע ליום עברות יובלו |
31 Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done [it]? who shall recompense him?
| מי-יגיד על-פניו דרכו והוא-עשה מי ישלם-לו |
32 And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps.
| והוא לקברות יובל ועל-גדיש ישקוד |
33 The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and [there are] innumerable [ones] before him.
| מתקו-לו רגבי-נחל ואחריו כל-אדם ימשוך ולפניו אין מספר |
34 How then do you comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.
| ואיך תנחמוני הבל ותשובתיכם נשאר-מעל |
