Job 18
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
| ויען בלדד השחי ויאמר׃ |
2 “When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.
| עד אנה תשימון קנצי למלין תבינו ואחר נדבר׃ |
3 Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!
| מדוע נחשבנו כבהמה נטמינו בעיניכם׃ |
4 He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place?
| טרף נפשו באפו הלמענך תעזב ארץ ויעתק צור ממקמו׃ |
5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.
| גם אור רשעים ידעך ולא יגה שביב אשו׃ |
6 The light has been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
| אור חשך באהלו ונרו עליו ידעך׃ |
7 The steps of his strength are restricted, And his own counsel casts him down.
| יצרו צעדי אונו ותשליכהו עצתו׃ |
8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And he habitually walks on a snare.
| כי שלח ברשת ברגליו ועל שבכה יתהלך׃ |
9 A trap seizes on the heel, The designing prevails over him.
| יאחז בעקב פח יחזק עליו צמים׃ |
10 His cord is hidden in the earth, And his trap on the path.
| טמון בארץ חבלו ומלכדתו עלי נתיב׃ |
11 Terrors have terrified him all around, And they have scattered him—at his feet.
| סביב בעתהו בלהות והפיצהו לרגליו׃ |
12 His sorrow is hungry, And calamity is ready at his side.
| יהי רעב אנו ואיד נכון לצלעו׃ |
13 It consumes the parts of his skin, Death’s firstborn consumes his parts.
| יאכל בדי עורו יאכל בדיו בכור מות׃ |
14 His confidence is drawn from his tent, And it causes him to step to the king of terrors.
| ינתק מאהלו מבטחו ותצעדהו למלך בלהות׃ |
15 It dwells in his tent—out of his provender, Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
| תשכון באהלו מבלי לו יזרה על נוהו גפרית׃ |
16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above his crop is cut off.
| מתחת שרשיו יבשו וממעל ימל קצירו׃ |
17 His memorial has perished from the land, And he has no name on the street.
| זכרו אבד מני ארץ ולא שם לו על פני חוץ׃ |
18 They thrust him from light to darkness, And cast him out from the habitable earth.
| יהדפהו מאור אל חשך ומתבל ינדהו׃ |
19 He has no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
| לא נין לו ולא נכד בעמו ואין שריד במגוריו׃ |
20 At this day, those [in the] west have been astonished, And those [in the] east have taken fright.
| על יומו נשמו אחרנים וקדמנים אחזו שער׃ |
21 Only these [are] dwelling places of the perverse, And this [is] the place God has not known.”
| אך אלה משכנות עול וזה מקום לא ידע אל׃ |
