Job 17
1 My spirit is consumed, and my days are over; the grave is ready for me.
| רוחי חבלה ימי נזעכו קברים לי |
2 Surely there are mockers with me; my eye must always see their provocation.
| אם-לא התלים עמדי ובהמרותם תלן עיני |
3 Give now a pledge, be a guarantee for me with yourself; who else is there who will help me?
| שימה-נא ערבני עמך מי הוא לידי יתקע |
4 For you, God, have kept their hearts from understanding; therefore, you will not exalt them over me.
| כי-לבם צפנת משכל על-כן לא תרמם |
5 He who denounces his friends for a reward, the eyes of his children will fail.
| לחלק יגיד רעים ועיני בניו תכלנה |
6 But he has made me a byword of the people; they spit in my face.
| והציגני למשל עמים ותפת לפנים אהיה |
7 My eye is also dim because of sorrow; all my body parts are as thin as shadows.
| ותכה מכעש עיני ויצרי כצל כלם |
8 Upright men will be stunned by this; the innocent man will stir himself up against godless men.
| ישמו ישרים על-זאת ונקי על-חנף יתערר |
9 The righteous man will keep to his way; he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
| ויאחז צדיק דרכו וטהר-ידים יסיף אמץ |
10 But as for you all, come on now; I will not find a wise man among you.
| ואולם--כלם תשבו ובאו נא ולא-אמצא בכם חכם |
11 My days are past; my plans are shattered, and so are the desires of my heart.
| ימי עברו זמתי נתקו-- מורשי לבבי |
12 These people, these mockers, change the night into day; light is near to darkness.
| לילה ליום ישימו אור קרוב מפני-חשך |
13 If the only home I hope for is Sheol; and if I have spread my couch in the darkness; (Sheol h7585)
| אם-אקוה שאול ביתי בחשך רפדתי יצועי (Sheol h7585) |
14 and if I have said to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'You are my mother or my sister,'
| לשחת קראתי אבי אתה אמי ואחתי לרמה |
15 where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see any?
| ואיה אפו תקותי ותקותי מי ישורנה |
