Job 33
1 “But now, Job, listen carefully to all that I am going to say [DOU].
| ואולם שמע נא איוב מלי וכל דברי האזינה׃ |
2 I am ready to tell you [MTY, DOU] [what I think].
| הנה נא פתחתי פי דברה לשוני בחכי׃ |
3 I know that I am speaking honestly and that I am speaking [MTY] sincerely.
| ישר לבי אמרי ודעת שפתי ברור מללו׃ |
4 Almighty God has created me [as well as you], and his breath has caused me to live.
| רוח אל עשתני ונשמת שדי תחיני׃ |
5 So, answer [what] I [say] if you can; think carefully [about how you will reply to me].
| אם תוכל השיבני ערכה לפני התיצבה׃ |
6 “God considers that you, and I are both [equal]; he formed both of us from clay.
| הן אני כפיך לאל מחמר קרצתי גם אני׃ |
7 So you do not need to be afraid of me; I will not crush/oppress you [by what I say] [MTY].
| הנה אמתי לא תבעתך ואכפי עליך לא יכבד׃ |
8 I have heard you [DOU] speaking, and this is what you have said:
| אך אמרת באזני וקול מלין אשמע׃ |
9 ‘I am innocent; I have not committed any sins; I am pure; I have not done things that are wrong.
| זך אני בלי פשע חף אנכי ולא עון לי׃ |
10 But God finds reasons to accuse me, and he considers that I am his enemy.
| הן תנואות עלי ימצא יחשבני לאויב לו׃ |
11 [It is as though] he has put my feet (in stocks/between wooden blocks to prevent me from walking away), and he watches everything that I do.’ [MTY]
| ישם בסד רגלי ישמר כל ארחתי׃ |
12 But what you have said is wrong, and I will tell you [what you have said that is wrong]. God is much greater than any human.
| הן זאת לא צדקת אענך כי ירבה אלוה מאנוש׃ |
13 So, (why are you arguing against God, saying ‘He never answers my questions’?/you should not be arguing against God, saying ‘He never answers my questions.’) [RHQ]
| מדוע אליו ריבות כי כל דבריו לא יענה׃ |
14 God does speak [to us] in various ways, but we do not pay any attention to what he says.
| כי באחת ידבר אל ובשתים לא ישורנה׃ |
15 [Sometimes he speaks to us] at night in dreams and visions, when we are on our beds, asleep [DOU].
| בחלום חזיון לילה בנפל תרדמה על אנשים בתנומות עלי משכב׃ |
16 He reveals things [MTY] to us and terrifies us by the things he warns us about.
| אז יגלה אזן אנשים ובמסרם יחתם׃ |
17 He tell us those things in order that we stop doing [evil] things and to prevent us from becoming proud.
| להסיר אדם מעשה וגוה מגבר יכסה׃ |
18 He does not want us to be destroyed [MTY]; he wants to prevent us from dying [MTY] [while we are still young].
| יחשך נפשו מני שחת וחיתו מעבר בשלח׃ |
19 God also [sometimes] corrects us by forcing us to lie on our beds suffering much pain and with fever/aching in our bones.
| והוכח במכאוב על משכבו וריב עצמיו אתן׃ |
20 The result is that we do not desire any food, not even very special food.
| וזהמתו חיתו לחם ונפשו מאכל תאוה׃ |
21 Our bodies become very thin, with the result that we look like skeletons [HYP], and our bones stick out.
| יכל בשרו מראי ושפי עצמותיו לא ראו׃ |
22 [We know that] we will soon die and go to the place where dead people are.
| ותקרב לשחת נפשו וחיתו לממתים׃ |
23 “But sometimes an angel [may come to one of us], one of the thousands of angels who come to intervene between us and God, to tell us what are the right things for us [to do].
| אם יש עליו מלאך מליץ אחד מני אלף להגיד לאדם ישרו׃ |
24 The angel is kind to us and says to God, ‘Release that person, so that he does not descend to the place where dead people are! Do that because I have found the money to pay so that he can be released!
| ויחננו ויאמר פדעהו מרדת שחת מצאתי כפר׃ |
25 Allow his body to be strong again; allow him to be strong like he was when he was a youth!’
| רטפש בשרו מנער ישוב לימי עלומיו׃ |
26 When that happens, that person will pray to God, and God will accept/answer him; he will (enter God’s presence/worship God) joyfully, and then he will tell others how God saved him [from dying].
| יעתר אל אלוה וירצהו וירא פניו בתרועה וישב לאנוש צדקתו׃ |
27 He will sing as he tells everyone, ‘I sinned, and I did things that were not right, but God did not punish me in the way that I deserved.
| ישר על אנשים ויאמר חטאתי וישר העויתי ולא שוה לי׃ |
28 He has saved me from dying and going to the place where dead people are, and I will continue to enjoy being alive.’
| פדה נפשי מעבר בשחת וחיתי באור תראה׃ |
29 God does all these things for us many times;
| הן כל אלה יפעל אל פעמים שלוש עם גבר׃ |
30 he keeps us [SYN] from [dying and] going to the place where the dead are, in order that we can continue to enjoy being alive [IDM].
| להשיב נפשו מני שחת לאור באור החיים׃ |
31 So Job, listen to me; do not say anything more; just allow me to speak.
| הקשב איוב שמע לי החרש ואנכי אדבר׃ |
32 [After I speak], if you have something more that you want to say to me, say it, because I would like to find a way to declare that you (are innocent/have not done what is wrong).
| אם יש מלין השיבני דבר כי חפצתי צדקך׃ |
33 But if you have nothing more that you want to say, then just listen to me, and I will teach you how to become wise.”
| אם אין אתה שמע לי החרש ואאלפך חכמה׃ |
