Job 19
1 Then Job replied:
| ויען איוב ויאמר |
2 “How long will you [three] torment me and crush my spirit by saying to me [that I am wicked]?
| עד-אנה תוגיון נפשי ותדכאונני במלים |
3 You have already insulted me many [HYP] times; (are you not ashamed for saying these things to me?/you should be ashamed for saying these things to me.) [RHQ]
| זה עשר פעמים תכלימוני לא-תבשו תהכרו-לי |
4 Even if it were true that I have done things that are wrong, I have not injured you!
| ואף-אמנם שגיתי אתי תלין משוגתי |
5 If you truly think that you are better than I am, and you think that my being miserable now proves that I (am guilty/have committed many sins),
| אם-אמנם עלי תגדילו ותוכיחו עלי חרפתי |
6 you need to realize that it is God who has caused me to suffer. [It is as though] he has trapped me with his net.
| דעו-אפו כי-אלוה עותני ומצודו עלי הקיף |
7 “I cry out, ‘Help me!’, but no one answers me. I call out loudly, but there is no one, [not even God, ] who acts fairly toward me.
| הן אצעק חמס ולא אענה אשוע ואין משפט |
8 [It is as though] [MET] God has blocked my way, with the result that I cannot go where I want to; [it is as though] he has forced me to try to find my way in the darkness.
| ארחי גדר ולא אעבור ועל נתיבותי חשך ישים |
9 He has (taken away my good reputation/caused people not to honor me any more); [it is as though] he removed [MET] a crown from my head.
| כבודי מעלי הפשיט ויסר עטרת ראשי |
10 He batters me from every side, and I will soon die. He has caused me to no longer confidently expect [him to do good things for me].
| יתצני סביב ואלך ויסע כעץ תקותי |
11 He attacks me because he is extremely angry with me [MET], and he considers that I am his enemy.
| ויחר עלי אפו ויחשבני לו כצריו |
12 [It is as though] he sends his army to attack me; they surround my tent, preparing to attack me.
| יחד יבאו גדודיו--ויסלו עלי דרכם ויחנו סביב לאהלי |
13 “God has caused my brothers to abandon me, and all those who know me act like strangers to me.
| אחי מעלי הרחיק וידעי אך-זרו ממני |
14 All my relatives and good friends have left me.
| חדלו קרובי ומידעי שכחוני |
15 The people who were guests in my house have forgotten me, and my female servants consider that I am a stranger or that I am a foreigner.
| גרי ביתי ואמהתי לזר תחשבני נכרי הייתי בעיניהם |
16 When I summon my servants, they do not answer; I plead with them to come [to help me, but they do not come].
| לעבדי קראתי ולא יענה במו-פי אתחנן-לו |
17 My wife does not want to come close to me because my breath [smells very bad], and even my brothers detest me.
| רוחי זרה לאשתי וחנתי לבני בטני |
18 Even young children despise me; when I stand up [to talk to them], they laugh at me.
| גם-עוילים מאסו בי אקומה וידברו-בי |
19 My dearest friends detest me, and those whom I love [very much] have turned against me.
| תעבוני כל-מתי סודי וזה-אהבתי נהפכו-בי |
20 My body is [only] skin and bones; I am barely alive [IDM].
| בעורי ובבשרי דבקה עצמי ואתמלטה בעור שני |
21 [“I plead with] you, my [three] friends, pity me, because God has (struck [EUP] me with his hand/caused me to suffer greatly).
| חנני חנני אתם רעי כי יד-אלוה נגעה בי |
22 Why do you cause me to suffer like God does? Why do you continue to slander [MET] me?
| למה תרדפני כמו-אל ומבשרי לא תשבעו |
23 “I wish/desire that someone would take these words of mine and write them permanently in a book [in order that people can read them].
| מי-יתן אפו ויכתבון מלי מי-יתן בספר ויחקו |
24 Or else, I wish that he would carve them on a rock with (a chisel/an iron tool) in order that they would last forever.
| בעט-ברזל ועפרת-- לעד בצור יחצבון |
25 But I know that the one who vindicates/defends me in court is alive, and that some day he will stand [here] on the earth [and make the final decision about whether I deserve to be punished].
| ואני ידעתי גאלי חי ואחרון על-עפר יקום |
26 And even after diseases have eaten away my skin, while I still have my body, I will see God.
| ואחר עורי נקפו-זאת ומבשרי אחזה אלוה |
27 I will see him myself; I will see him with my own eyes! I am overwhelmed [as I think about that]!
| אשר אני אחזה-לי--ועיני ראו ולא-זר כלו כליתי בחקי |
28 “If you three men say, ‘What more can we do to cause Job to suffer?’ and if you say, ‘He has caused his own [troubles],’
| כי תאמרו מה-נרדף-לו ושרש דבר נמצא-בי |
29 you should be afraid that God will punish [MTY] you; he punishes those [like you] with whom he is angry; and when that happens, you will know that there is [someone who] judges [people].”
| גורו לכם מפני-חרב--כי-חמה עונות חרב למען תדעון שדין (שדון) |
