Job 14
1 Man, who is born of woman, lives only a few days and is full of trouble.
| אדם ילוד אשה-- קצר ימים ושבע-רגז |
2 He sprouts from the ground like a flower and is cut down; he flees like a shadow and does not last.
| כציץ יצא וימל ויברח כצל ולא יעמוד |
3 Do you look at any of these? Do you bring me into judgment with you?
| אף-על-זה פקחת עינך ואתי תביא במשפט עמך |
4 Who can bring something clean out of something unclean? No one.
| מי-יתן טהור מטמא-- לא אחד |
5 Man's days are determined. The number of his months is with you; you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass.
| אם חרוצים ימיו--מספר-חדשיו אתך חקו עשית ולא יעבר |
6 Look away from him that he may rest, so that he may enjoy his day like a hired man if he can do so.
| שעה מעליו ויחדל-- עד-ירצה כשכיר יומו |
7 There can be hope for a tree; if it is cut down, it might sprout again, so that its tender stalk does not disappear.
| כי יש לעץ תקוה אם-יכרת ועוד יחליף וינקתו לא תחדל |
8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground,
| אם-יזקין בארץ שרשו ובעפר ימות גזעו |
9 yet even if it only smells water, it will bud and send out branches like a plant.
| מריח מים יפרח ועשה קציר כמו-נטע |
10 But man dies; he becomes weak; indeed, man stops breathing, and then where is he?
| וגבר ימות ויחלש ויגוע אדם ואיו |
11 As water disappears from a lake, and as a river loses water and dries up,
| אזלו-מים מני-ים ונהר יחרב ויבש |
12 so people lie down and do not rise again. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor be roused out of their sleep.
| ואיש שכב ולא-יקום עד-בלתי שמים לא יקיצו ולא-יערו משנתם |
13 Oh, that you would hide me away in Sheol away from troubles, and that you would keep me in private until your wrath is over, that you would set me a fixed time to stay there and then call me to mind! (Sheol h7585)
| מי יתן בשאול תצפנני-- תסתירני עד-שוב אפך תשית לי חק ותזכרני (Sheol h7585) |
14 If a man dies, will he live again? If so, I would wish to wait all my weary time there until my release should come.
| אם-ימות גבר היחיה כל-ימי צבאי איחל-- עד-בוא חליפתי |
15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
| תקרא ואנכי אענך למעשה ידיך תכסף |
16 You would number and care for my footsteps; you would not keep track of my sin.
| כי-עתה צעדי תספור לא-תשמר על-חטאתי |
17 My transgression would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover up my iniquity.
| חתם בצרור פשעי ותטפל על-עוני |
18 But even mountains fall and come to nothing; even rocks are moved out of their place;
| ואולם הר-נופל יבול וצור יעתק ממקמו |
19 the waters wear down the stones; their flooding washes away the dust of the earth. Like this, you destroy the hope of man.
| אבנים שחקו מים-- תשטף-ספיחיה עפר-ארץ ותקות אנוש האבדת |
20 You always defeat him, and he passes away; you change his face and send him away to die.
| תתקפהו לנצח ויהלך משנה פניו ותשלחהו |
21 If his sons are honored, he does not know it; and if they are brought low, he does not see it.
| יכבדו בניו ולא ידע ויצערו ולא-יבין למו |
22 He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns for himself.
| אך-בשרו עליו יכאב ונפשו עליו תאבל |
