Job 21
1 And he answered Job and he said.
| ויען איוב ויאמר׃ |
2 Listen completely [to] speech my and let it be this consolations your.
| שמעו שמוע מלתי ותהי זאת תנחומתיכם׃ |
3 Bear with me and I I will speak and after have spoken I you will mock.
| שאוני ואנכי אדבר ואחר דברי תלעיג׃ |
4 ¿ I to humankind [is] complaint my and if why? not will it be short spirit my.
| האנכי לאדם שיחי ואם מדוע לא תקצר רוחי׃ |
5 Turn to me and be appalled and put a hand over a mouth.
| פנו אלי והשמו ושימו יד על פה׃ |
6 And if I remember [this] and I am disturbed and it takes hold of flesh my shuddering.
| ואם זכרתי ונבהלתי ואחז בשרי פלצות׃ |
7 Why? wicked [people] do they live they grow old also do they become strong? strength.
| מדוע רשעים יחיו עתקו גם גברו חיל׃ |
8 Offspring their [is] established before them with them and descendants their to eyes their.
| זרעם נכון לפניהם עמם וצאצאיהם לעיניהם׃ |
9 Houses their [are] safety from fear and not [the] rod of God [is] on them.
| בתיהם שלום מפחד ולא שבט אלוה עליהם׃ |
10 Bull his it impregnates and not it fails it calves cow his and not it miscarries.
| שורו עבר ולא יגעל תפלט פרתו ולא תשכל׃ |
11 They send forth like flock young boys their and children their they leap about!
| ישלחו כצאן עויליהם וילדיהם ירקדון׃ |
12 They lift according to tambourine and harp so they may rejoice to [the] sound of a flute.
| ישאו כתף וכנור וישמחו לקול עוגב׃ |
| יבלו בטוב ימיהם וברגע שאול יחתו׃ (Sheol h7585) |
14 And they have said to God depart from us and knowledge of ways your not we desire.
| ויאמרו לאל סור ממנו ודעת דרכיך לא חפצנו׃ |
15 What? [is the] Almighty that we will serve him and what? will we gain that we will entreat him.
| מה שדי כי נעבדנו ומה נועיל כי נפגע בו׃ |
16 There! not [is] in own hand their prosperity their [the] counsel of wicked [people] it is far from me.
| הן לא בידם טובם עצת רשעים רחקה מני׃ |
17 How often? - [the] lamp of wicked [people] is it extinguished and it may come? on them calamity their pain does he apportion? in anger his.
| כמה נר רשעים ידעך ויבא עלימו אידם חבלים יחלק באפו׃ |
18 Are they? like straw before a wind and like chaff [which] it has stolen it a storm-wind.
| יהיו כתבן לפני רוח וכמץ גנבתו סופה׃ |
19 God he stores up for children his wickedness his let him repay to him so he may know.
| אלוה יצפן לבניו אונו ישלם אליו וידע׃ |
20 Let them see (own eyes his *Q(K)*) destruction his and from [the] rage of [the] Almighty let him drink.
| יראו עינו כידו ומחמת שדי ישתה׃ |
21 For what? [is] pleasure his in household his after him and [the] number of months his they have been cut off.
| כי מה חפצו בביתו אחריו ומספר חדשיו חצצו׃ |
22 ¿ To God will anyone teach knowledge and he exalted [ones] he judges.
| הלאל ילמד דעת והוא רמים ישפוט׃ |
23 This [one] he will die with limb[s] of completeness his all of him [is] at ease and at ease.
| זה ימות בעצם תמו כלו שלאנן ושליו׃ |
24 Pails his they are full milk and [the] marrow of bones his it is watered.
| עטיניו מלאו חלב ומח עצמותיו ישקה׃ |
25 And this [one] he will die with a soul bitter and not he has eaten in the good.
| וזה ימות בנפש מרה ולא אכל בטובה׃ |
26 Together on dust they will lie and a maggot it will cover over them.
| יחד על עפר ישכבו ורמה תכסה עליהם׃ |
27 Here! I know thoughts your and [the] schemes on me you do violence.
| הן ידעתי מחשבותיכם ומזמות עלי תחמסו׃ |
28 For you say where? [is the] house of a noble [person] and where? [is the] tent of - [the] dwelling places of wicked [people].
| כי תאמרו איה בית נדיב ואיה אהל משכנות רשעים׃ |
29 ¿ Not have you asked [those who] pass by of [the] road and signs their not do you recognize?
| הלא שאלתם עוברי דרך ואתתם לא תנכרו׃ |
30 That to a day of calamity he is spared an evil [person] to a day of furi they are brought forth.
| כי ליום איד יחשך רע ליום עברות יובלו׃ |
31 Who? will he tell on face his way his and [that which] he he has done who? will he repay to him.
| מי יגיד על פניו דרכו והוא עשה מי ישלם לו׃ |
32 And he to [the] grave he will be borne and over a tomb someone will keep watch.
| והוא לקברות יובל ועל גדיש ישקוד׃ |
33 They will be sweet to him [the] clods of [the] wadi and after him every person he will follow and before him there not [is] number.
| מתקו לו רגבי נחל ואחריו כל אדם ימשוך ולפניו אין מספר׃ |
34 And how? will you comfort me vanity and answers your it remains unfaithfulness.
| ואיך תנחמוני הבל ותשובתיכם נשאר מעל׃ |
