Job 27
1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
| ויסף איוב שאת משלו ויאמר׃ |
2 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, Shaddai, who has made my soul bitter.
| חי אל הסיר משפטי ושדי המר נפשי׃ |
3 (For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
| כי כל עוד נשמתי בי ורוח אלוה באפי׃ |
4 surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
| אם תדברנה שפתי עולה ולשוני אם יהגה רמיה׃ |
5 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
| חלילה לי אם אצדיק אתכם עד אגוע לא אסיר תמתי ממני׃ |
6 I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My conscience will not accuse me as long as I live.
| בצדקתי החזקתי ולא ארפה לא יחרף לבבי מימי׃ |
7 "Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
| יהי כרשע איבי ומתקוממי כעול׃ |
8 For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
| כי מה תקות חנף כי יבצע כי ישל אלוה נפשו׃ |
9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
| הצעקתו ישמע אל כי תבוא עליו צרה׃ |
10 Will he delight himself in Shaddai, and call on God at all times?
| אם על שדי יתענג יקרא אלוה בכל עת׃ |
11 I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with Shaddai will I not conceal.
| אורה אתכם ביד אל אשר עם שדי לא אכחד׃ |
12 Look, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
| הן אתם כלכם חזיתם ולמה זה הבל תהבלו׃ |
13 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from Shaddai.
| זה חלק אדם רשע עם אל ונחלת עריצים משדי יקחו׃ |
14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
| אם ירבו בניו למו חרב וצאצאיו לא ישבעו לחם׃ |
15 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.
| שרידו במות יקברו ואלמנתיו לא תבכינה׃ |
16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
| אם יצבר כעפר כסף וכחמר יכין מלבוש׃ |
17 he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
| יכין וצדיק ילבש וכסף נקי יחלק׃ |
18 He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
| בנה כעש ביתו וכסכה עשה נצר׃ |
19 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and it is gone.
| עשיר ישכב ולא יאסף עיניו פקח ואיננו׃ |
20 Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
| תשיגהו כמים בלהות לילה גנבתו סופה׃ |
21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
| ישאהו קדים וילך וישערהו ממקמו׃ |
22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
| וישלך עליו ולא יחמל מידו ברוח יברח׃ |
23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
| ישפק עלימו כפימו וישרק עליו ממקמו׃ |
