Job 22
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
| ויען אליפז התמני ויאמר |
2 "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
| הלאל יסכן-גבר-- כי-יסכן עלימו משכיל |
3 Is it any pleasure to Shaddai, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?
| החפץ לשדי כי תצדק ואם-בצע כי-תתם דרכיך |
4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
| המיראתך יכיחך יבוא עמך במשפט |
5 Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
| הלא רעתך רבה ואין-קץ לעונתיך |
6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
| כי-תחבל אחיך חנם ובגדי ערומים תפשיט |
7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
| לא-מים עיף תשקה ומרעב תמנע-לחם |
8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
| ואיש זרוע לו הארץ ונשוא פנים ישב בה |
9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
| אלמנות שלחת ריקם וזרעות יתמים ידכא |
10 Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
| על-כן סביבותיך פחים ויבהלך פחד פתאם |
11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
| או-חשך לא-תראה ושפעת-מים תכסך |
12 "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are.
| הלא-אלוה גבה שמים וראה ראש כוכבים כי-רמו |
13 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
| ואמרת מה-ידע אל הבעד ערפל ישפוט |
14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'
| עבים סתר-לו ולא יראה וחוג שמים יתהלך |
15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
| הארח עולם תשמור-- אשר דרכו מתי-און |
16 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
| אשר-קמטו ולא-עת נהר יוצק יסודם |
17 who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can Shaddai do for us?'
| האמרים לאל סור ממנו ומה-יפעל שדי למו |
18 Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
| והוא מלא בתיהם טוב ועצת רשעים רחקה מני |
19 The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,
| יראו צדיקים וישמחו ונקי ילעג-למו |
20 saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'
| אם-לא נכחד קימנו ויתרם אכלה אש |
21 "Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.
| הסכן-נא עמו ושלם בהם תבואתך טובה |
22 Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
| קח-נא מפיו תורה ושים אמריו בלבבך |
23 If you return to Shaddai, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
| אם-תשוב עד-שדי תבנה תרחיק עולה מאהלך |
24 Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
| ושית-על-עפר בצר ובצור נחלים אופיר |
25 Shaddai will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.
| והיה שדי בצריך וכסף תועפות לך |
26 For then you will delight yourself in Shaddai, and shall lift up your face to God.
| כי-אז על-שדי תתענג ותשא אל-אלוה פניך |
27 You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.
| תעתיר אליו וישמעך ונדריך תשלם |
28 And you will also decree a thing, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.
| ותגזר-אמר ויקם לך ועל-דרכיך נגה אור |
29 When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' And he will save the humble.
| כי-השפילו ותאמר גוה ושח עינים יושע |
30 He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."
| ימלט אי-נקי ונמלט בבר כפיך |
