Job 18
1 Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —
| ויען בלדד השחי ויאמר |
2 How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.
| עד-אנה תשימון קנצי למלין תבינו ואחר נדבר |
3 Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?
| מדוע נחשבנו כבהמה נטמינו בעיניכם |
4 One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger, —For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its place?
| טרף נפשו באפו הלמענך תעזב ארץ ויעתק-צור ממקמו |
5 Even the light of the lawless, shall go out, —Neither shall shine the flame of his fire;
| גם אור רשעים ידעך ולא-יגה שביב אשו |
6 The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;
| אור חשך באהלו ונרו עליו ידעך |
7 The steppings of his strength are hemmed in, and his own counsel casteth him down;
| יצרו צעדי אונו ותשליכהו עצתו |
8 For he is thrust into a net by his own feet, and, upon a trap, he marcheth;
| כי-שלח ברשת ברגליו ועל-שבכה יתהלך |
9 There catcheth him—by the heel—a gin, there holdeth him fast—a noose:
| יאחז בעקב פח יחזק עליו צמים |
10 Concealed in the ground is a cord for him, —and a snare for him, on the path.
| טמון בארץ חבלו ומלכדתו עלי נתיב |
11 Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet.
| סביב בעתהו בלהות והפיצהו לרגליו |
12 Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side;
| יהי-רעב אנו ואיד נכון לצלעו |
13 Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members;
| יאכל בדי עורו יאכל בדיו בכור מות |
14 Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors;
| ינתק מאהלו מבטחו ותצעדהו למלך בלהות |
15 There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;
| תשכון באהלו מבלי-לו יזרה על-נוהו גפרית |
16 Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch;
| מתחת שרשיו יבשו וממעל ימל קצירו |
17 His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field;
| זכרו-אבד מני-ארץ ולא-שם לו על-פני-חוץ |
18 Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;
| יהדפהו מאור אל-חשך ומתבל ינדהו |
19 Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:
| לא נין לו ולא-נכד בעמו ואין שריד במגוריו |
20 Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.
| על-יומו נשמו אחרנים וקדמנים אחזו שער |
21 Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD.
| אך-אלה משכנות עול וזה מקום לא-ידע-אל |
