Job 36
1 And Elihu added and said: —
| ויסף אליהוא ויאמר׃ |
2 Restrain thyself for me a little, and I will shew thee, that, yet—for GOD, there is justification,
| כתר לי זעיר ואחוך כי עוד לאלוה מלים׃ |
3 I will bring my knowledge from afar, and, to my Maker, will I attribute righteousness.
| אשא דעי למרחוק ולפעלי אתן צדק׃ |
4 For, of a truth—not false, are my words, One of competent knowledge, is with thee.
| כי אמנם לא שקר מלי תמים דעות עמך׃ |
5 Lo! GOD, is mighty, yet will he not despise, Mighty in vigour of mind;
| הן אל כביר ולא ימאס כביר כח לב׃ |
6 He will not keep alive one who is lawless, but, the right of oppressed ones, will he grant;
| לא יחיה רשע ומשפט עניים יתן׃ |
7 He will not withdraw—from a righteous one—his eyes, —but, with kings on the throne, He hath seated men triumphantly, and they have been exalted.
| לא יגרע מצדיק עיניו ואת מלכים לכסא וישיבם לנצח ויגבהו׃ |
8 But, if, bound in fetters, they have been captured with cords of affliction,
| ואם אסורים בזקים ילכדון בחבלי עני׃ |
9 Then hath he declared to them their deed, and their transgressions—that they were wont to behave themselves proudly;
| ויגד להם פעלם ופשעיהם כי יתגברו׃ |
10 Thus hath he uncovered their ear to a warning, and said—that they should turn from iniquity.
| ויגל אזנם למוסר ויאמר כי ישבון מאון׃ |
11 If they would hearken, and serve, they should complete their days, in prosperity, and their years, in pleasantness;
| אם ישמעו ויעבדו יכלו ימיהם בטוב ושניהם בנעימים׃ |
12 But, if they would not hearken, by a weapon, should they pass away, and breathe their last, no one knowing.
| ואם לא ישמעו בשלח יעברו ויגועו בבלי דעת׃ |
13 Yea, the impious in heart, should store up anger, They should not cry for help, when he bound them.
| וחנפי לב ישימו אף לא ישועו כי אסרם׃ |
14 Their soul should die in youth, and their life, among the unclean.
| תמת בנער נפשם וחיתם בקדשים׃ |
15 He would deliver the humbled in his humiliation, and would uncover—in oppression—their ear.
| יחלץ עני בעניו ויגל בלחץ אזנם׃ |
16 Yea he might even have allured thee—out of the mouth of straitness, [into] a wide space—no narrowness there, —and, the food set down on thy table, should have been full of fatness.
| ואף הסיתך מפי צר רחב לא מוצק תחתיה ונחת שלחנך מלא דשן׃ |
17 But, with the plea of a lawless one, thou art full, Plea and sentence, will take fast hold.
| ודין רשע מלאת דין ומשפט יתמכו׃ |
18 Because there is wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with a stroke, Then let not, a great ransom, mislead thee.
| כי חמה פן יסיתך בספק ורב כפר אל יטך׃ |
19 Will he value thy riches? Nay not precious ore, nor all the forces of strength.
| היערך שועך לא בצר וכל מאמצי כח׃ |
20 Do not pant for the night, when peoples disappear from their place.
| אל תשאף הלילה לעלות עמים תחתם׃ |
21 Beware, do not turn unto iniquity, For, this, thou hast chosen rather than affliction.
| השמר אל תפן אל און כי על זה בחרת מעני׃ |
22 Lo, GOD, exalteth himself by his strength, Who like him doth teach?
| הן אל ישגיב בכחו מי כמהו מורה׃ |
23 Who enjoined on him his way? and who ever said, Thou hast wrought perversity?
| מי פקד עליו דרכו ומי אמר פעלת עולה׃ |
24 Remember, that thou extol his work, of which men have sung;
| זכר כי תשגיא פעלו אשר שררו אנשים׃ |
25 Every son of earth, hath viewed it, Mortal man, looketh at it from afar.
| כל אדם חזו בו אנוש יביט מרחוק׃ |
26 Lo, GOD, is greater than we can know, The number of his years, even past finding out!
| הן אל שגיא ולא נדע מספר שניו ולא חקר׃ |
27 For he draweth up drops of water, They trickle as rain through his mist;
| כי יגרע נטפי מים יזקו מטר לאדו׃ |
28 With which the clouds flow down, They drop on man in abundance.
| אשר יזלו שחקים ירעפו עלי אדם רב׃ |
29 But surely none can understand the burstings of the cloud, the crashing of his pavilion!
| אף אם יבין מפרשי עב תשאות סכתו׃ |
30 Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered.
| הן פרש עליו אורו ושרשי הים כסה׃ |
31 For, by those things, he executeth judgment on peoples, He giveth food in abundance:
| כי בם ידין עמים יתן אכל למכביר׃ |
32 Upon both hands, he putteth a covering of lightning, and layeth command upon it against an assailant:
| על כפים כסה אור ויצו עליה במפגיע׃ |
33 His rolling thunder telleth concerning him, —The cattle, even, concerning him that is coming up.
| יגיד עליו רעו מקנה אף על עולה׃ |
