Job 15
1 Then Eliphaz replied to Job:
| ויען אליפז התימני ויאמר׃ |
2 “If you were truly wise [RHQ], you would not have replied to us by claiming that you know a lot; what you are saying is just a lot of hot air [MET].
| החכם יענה דעת רוח וימלא קדים בטנו׃ |
3 You should not [RHQ] be saying things that do not benefit anyone, using words that do no one any good.
| הוכח בדבר לא יסכון ומלים לא יועיל בם׃ |
4 [By what you say, ] you show that you do not revere God, and you are hindering people from meditating/thinking about God.
| אף אתה תפר יראה ותגרע שיחה לפני אל׃ |
5 [It is as though] your sins are telling you what to say; you talk like people who will not admit that they are wicked.
| כי יאלף עונך פיך ותבחר לשון ערומים׃ |
6 Everything that you say [MTY] shows that you should be punished; so, it is not necessary for me to show that.
| ירשיעך פיך ולא אני ושפתיך יענו בך׃ |
7 [“Tell me do you know more than everyone else because you think that] you are the first person who was ever born? [SAR, RHQ] Were you born before the hills [were created]?
| הראישון אדם תולד ולפני גבעות חוללת׃ |
8 Were you listening when God made all his plans? [SAR, RHQ] Or do you think that you are the only person who is wise?
| הבסוד אלוה תשמע ותגרע אליך חכמה׃ |
9 (What do you know that we do not know?/You do not know anything that we do not know.) [RHQ] You do not understand [RHQ] anything that is not also clear to us.
| מה ידעת ולא נדע תבין ולא עמנו הוא׃ |
10 My friends and I are also wise; we acquired [wisdom] from old gray-haired people, from people who were born before your father was born.
| גם שב גם ישיש בנו כביר מאביך ימים׃ |
11 God wants to comfort you, and to speak gently/kindly to you; (is that not enough for you/do you need more than that)?
| המעט ממך תנחמות אל ודבר לאט עמך׃ |
12 Why do you allow yourself to be (carried away/excited) by your emotions? Why are [you very angry, with the result that] your eyes flash?
| מה יקחך לבך ומה ירזמון עיניך׃ |
13 You are angry [IDM] with God, and so you [MTY] are criticizing/denouncing him.
| כי תשיב אל אל רוחך והצאת מפיך מלין׃ |
14 “(How can any person, [including you, ] be sinless?/No person, [including you], can be sinless.) [RHQ] (How can anyone on the earth be [completely] righteous?/No one on the earth can be [completely] righteous.) [RHQ]
| מה אנוש כי יזכה וכי יצדק ילוד אשה׃ |
15 Hey, God does not even trust his angels; he does not consider even them to be [completely] pure.
| הן בקדשו לא יאמין ושמים לא זכו בעיניו׃ |
16 So, he certainly does not [trust] abominable/disgusting and depraved/corrupt people who do evil things [as easily] as they drink water [MET].
| אף כי נתעב ונאלח איש שתה כמים עולה׃ |
17 Job, listen to what I will tell you. I will declare to you what I know,
| אחוך שמע לי וזה חזיתי ואספרה׃ |
18 things that wise men have told me, truths that their ancestors did not keep hidden.
| אשר חכמים יגידו ולא כחדו מאבותם׃ |
19 God gave this land to those ancestors, who were truly wise; no one from another country caused them to think wrongly [IDM].
| להם לבדם נתנה הארץ ולא עבר זר בתוכם׃ |
20 It is wicked people who suffer with great pain all the time that they are alive; that is what happens to those who (oppress/act violently toward) others.
| כל ימי רשע הוא מתחולל ומספר שנים נצפנו לעריץ׃ |
21 They constantly hear sounds that terrify them; while they are prospering, bandits attack them.
| קול פחדים באזניו בשלום שודד יבואנו׃ |
22 Wicked people surely know that they will not escape from darkness/death, because [they are sure that someone] is waiting to kill them with a sword.
| לא יאמין שוב מני חשך וצפו הוא אלי חרב׃ |
23 They wander around, searching for food, saying ‘Where can I find some?’ And they know that they will soon experience disasters.
| נדד הוא ללחם איה ידע כי נכון בידו יום חשך׃ |
24 Because they are afraid of those things happening to them, they are afraid and worry that these things will come to them like [the army of] a king comes to attack [their enemies and cause them to suffer] [SIM].
| יבעתהו צר ומצוקה תתקפהו כמלך עתיד לכידור׃ |
25 [Those things happen to them] because they (shook their fists/dared to fight) against Almighty God, and thought that they were strong enough to defeat him.
| כי נטה אל אל ידו ואל שדי יתגבר׃ |
26 They stubbornly [IDM] rush to attack God [as though they were carrying] a strong shield [to protect themselves].
| ירוץ אליו בצואר בעבי גבי מגניו׃ |
27 They are so fat [that they are unable to fight].
| כי כסה פניו בחלבו ויעש פימה עלי כסל׃ |
28 They will live in cities that have been abandoned, cities which have become a heap of ruins.
| וישכון ערים נכחדות בתים לא ישבו למו אשר התעתדו לגלים׃ |
29 But they will not remain rich very long; Everything that they own will be taken from them; their possessions will all disappear.
| לא יעשר ולא יקום חילו ולא יטה לארץ מנלם׃ |
30 They will not escape from the darkness [of death]; they will be like trees whose branches are burned by fire and whose blossoms are blown away by the wind.
| לא יסור מני חשך ינקתו תיבש שלהבת ויסור ברוח פיו׃ |
31 Since they are very foolish, with the result that they trust in things that are really worthless, then things that are worthless will be all that they get.
| אל יאמן בשו נתעה כי שוא תהיה תמורתו׃ |
32 Before they are old, they will wither; they will be like [MET] branches that wither and never become green again.
| בלא יומו תמלא וכפתו לא רעננה׃ |
33 They will be like [SIM] vines whose grapes fall off before they are ripe, like olive trees whose blossoms fall off before they produce any fruit.
| יחמס כגפן בסרו וישלך כזית נצתו׃ |
34 Wicked/godless people will not have any descendants, and fires will completely burn up the homes of [those who built those homes using] money they received from bribes.
| כי עדת חנף גלמוד ואש אכלה אהלי שחד׃ |
35 They plan to cause trouble and to do evil things, and they are always preparing to deceive people.”
| הרה עמל וילד און ובטנם תכין מרמה׃ |
