Job 36
1 And Elihu adds and says:
| ויסף אליהוא ויאמר |
2 “Honor me a little, and I show you, That yet for God [are] words.
| כתר-לי זעיר ואחוך כי עוד לאלוה מלים |
3 I lift up my knowledge from afar, And I ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
| אשא דעי למרחוק ולפעלי אתן-צדק |
4 For my words [are] truly not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with you.
| כי-אמנם לא-שקר מלי תמים דעות עמך |
5 Behold, God [is] mighty, and does not despise, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.
| הן-אל כביר ולא ימאס כביר כח לב |
6 He does not revive the wicked, And appoints the judgment of the poor;
| לא-יחיה רשע ומשפט עניים יתן |
7 He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous, And [from] kings on the throne, And causes them to sit forever, and they are high,
| לא-יגרע מצדיק עיניו ואת-מלכים לכסא וישיבם לנצח ויגבהו |
8 And if prisoners in chains They are captured with cords of affliction,
| ואם-אסורים בזקים ילכדון בחבלי-עני |
9 Then He declares to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
| ויגד להם פעלם ופשעיהם כי יתגברו |
10 And He uncovers their ear for instruction, And commands that they turn back from iniquity.
| ויגל אזנם למוסר ויאמר כי-ישובון מאון |
11 If they hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.
| אם-ישמעו ויעבדו יכלו ימיהם בטוב ושניהם בנעימים |
12 And if they do not listen, They pass away by the dart, And expire without knowledge.
| ואם-לא ישמעו בשלח יעברו ויגועו בבלי-דעת |
13 And the profane in heart set the face, They do not cry when He has bound them.
| וחנפי-לב ישימו אף לא ישועו כי אסרם |
14 Their soul dies in youth, And their life among the defiled.
| תמת בנער נפשם וחיתם בקדשים |
15 He draws out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovers their ear in oppression.
| יחלץ עני בעניו ויגל בלחץ אזנם |
16 And He also moved you from a narrow place [To] a broad place—no constriction under it, And the sitting beyond of your table has been full of fatness.
| ואף הסיתך מפי-צר-- רחב לא-מוצק תחתיה ונחת שלחנך מלא דשן |
17 And you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, Judgment and justice are upheld because of fury,
| ודין-רשע מלאת דין ומשפט יתמכו |
18 Lest He move you with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement not turn you aside.
| כי-חמה פן-יסיתך בספק ורב-כפר אל-יטך |
19 Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power.
| היערך שועך לא בצר וכל מאמצי-כח |
20 Do not desire the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
| אל-תשאף הלילה-- לעלות עמים תחתם |
21 Take heed—do not turn to iniquity, For you have fixed on this Rather than [on] affliction.
| השמר אל-תפן אל-און כי-על-זה בחרת מעני |
22 Behold, God sits on high by His power, Who [is] like Him—a teacher?
| הן-אל ישגיב בכחו מי כמהו מורה |
23 Who has appointed to Him His way? And who said, You have done iniquity?
| מי-פקד עליו דרכו ומי-אמר פעלת עולה |
24 Remember that you magnify His work That men have beheld.
| זכר כי-תשגיא פעלו-- אשר שררו אנשים |
25 All men have looked on it, Man looks attentively from afar.
| כל-אדם חזו-בו אנוש יביט מרחוק |
26 Behold, God [is] high, And we do not know the number of His years, Indeed, there [is] no searching.
| הן-אל שגיא ולא נדע מספר שניו ולא-חקר |
27 When He diminishes droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapor,
| כי יגרע נטפי-מים יזקו מטר לאדו |
28 Which clouds drop, They distill on man abundantly.
| אשר-יזלו שחקים ירעפו עלי אדם רב |
29 Indeed, do [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His dwelling place?
| אף אם-יבין מפרשי-עב תשאות סכתו |
30 Behold, He has spread His light over it, And He has covered the roots of the sea,
| הן-פרש עליו אורו ושרשי הים כסה |
31 For He judges peoples by them, He gives food in abundance.
| כי-בם ידין עמים יתן-אכל למכביר |
32 By two palms He has covered the light, And lays a charge over it in meeting,
| על-כפים כסה-אור ויצו עליה במפגיע |
33 His shout shows it, The livestock also, the rising [storm].”
| יגיד עליו רעו מקנה אף על-עולה |
