Job 36
1 Elihu continued on and said,
| ויסף אליהוא ויאמר |
2 “Permit me to speak a little longer, and I will show you some things because I have a little more to say in defense of God.
| כתר-לי זעיר ואחוך כי עוד לאלוה מלים |
3 I will obtain my knowledge from far off; I will acknowledge that righteousness belongs to my Maker.
| אשא דעי למרחוק ולפעלי אתן-צדק |
4 For indeed, my words will not be false; someone who is mature in knowledge is with you.
| כי-אמנם לא-שקר מלי תמים דעות עמך |
5 See, God is mighty, and despises no one; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
| הן-אל כביר ולא ימאס כביר כח לב |
6 He does not preserve the life of wicked people but instead does what is right for those who suffer.
| לא-יחיה רשע ומשפט עניים יתן |
7 He does not withdraw his eyes from righteous people but instead sets them on thrones like kings forever, and they are lifted up.
| לא-יגרע מצדיק עיניו ואת-מלכים לכסא וישיבם לנצח ויגבהו |
8 If they are bound in chains and trapped in cords of suffering,
| ואם-אסורים בזקים ילכדון בחבלי-עני |
9 then he reveals to them what they have done, and their transgressions and their pride.
| ויגד להם פעלם ופשעיהם כי יתגברו |
10 He also opens their ears to his instruction, and commands them to turn back from iniquity.
| ויגל אזנם למוסר ויאמר כי-ישובון מאון |
11 If they listen to him and worship him, they will spend their days in prosperity, their years in contentment.
| אם-ישמעו ויעבדו יכלו ימיהם בטוב ושניהם בנעימים |
12 However, if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die because they have no knowledge.
| ואם-לא ישמעו בשלח יעברו ויגועו בבלי-דעת |
13 Those who are godless in heart store up their anger; they do not cry out for help even when God ties them up.
| וחנפי-לב ישימו אף לא ישועו כי אסרם |
14 They die in their youth; their lives end among the cultic prostitutes.
| תמת בנער נפשם וחיתם בקדשים |
15 God rescues afflicted people by means of their afflictions; he opens their ears by means of their oppression.
| יחלץ עני בעניו ויגל בלחץ אזנם |
16 Indeed, he would like to draw you out of distress into a broad place where there is no hardship and where your table would be set with food full of fatness.
| ואף הסיתך מפי-צר-- רחב לא-מוצק תחתיה ונחת שלחנך מלא דשן |
17 But you are full of judgment on wicked people; judgment and justice have laid hold of you.
| ודין-רשע מלאת דין ומשפט יתמכו |
18 Do not let your anger entice you to mockery, or the greatness of a ransom to turn you aside.
| כי-חמה פן-יסיתך בספק ורב-כפר אל-יטך |
19 Can your wealth benefit you, so that you will not be in distress, or can all the force of your strength help you?
| היערך שועך לא בצר וכל מאמצי-כח |
20 Do not desire the night, to commit sin against others, when peoples are cut off in their place.
| אל-תשאף הלילה-- לעלות עמים תחתם |
21 Be careful that you do not turn to sin because you are being tested by suffering so that you will stay away from sinning.
| השמר אל-תפן אל-און כי-על-זה בחרת מעני |
22 See, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
| הן-אל ישגיב בכחו מי כמהו מורה |
23 Who has ever instructed him about his way? Who can ever say to him, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'
| מי-פקד עליו דרכו ומי-אמר פעלת עולה |
24 Remember to praise his deeds, of which people have sung.
| זכר כי-תשגיא פעלו-- אשר שררו אנשים |
25 All people have looked on those deeds, but they see those deeds only from far away.
| כל-אדם חזו-בו אנוש יביט מרחוק |
26 See, God is great, but we do not understand him well; the number of his years is incalculable.
| הן-אל שגיא ולא נדע מספר שניו ולא-חקר |
27 For he draws up the drops of water that he distills as rain from his vapor,
| כי יגרע נטפי-מים יזקו מטר לאדו |
28 which the clouds pour down and drop in abundance on mankind.
| אשר-יזלו שחקים ירעפו עלי אדם רב |
29 Indeed, can anyone understand the extensive spread of the clouds and the thunder from his hut?
| אף אם-יבין מפרשי-עב תשאות סכתו |
30 See, he spreads his lightning around him and covers the roots of the sea.
| הן-פרש עליו אורו ושרשי הים כסה |
31 In this way he judges the peoples and gives food in abundance.
| כי-בם ידין עמים יתן-אכל למכביר |
32 He fills his hands with the lightning until he commands it to strike its mark.
| על-כפים כסה-אור ויצו עליה במפגיע |
33 Its thunder warns of the storm, the cattle can also hear it is coming.
| יגיד עליו רעו מקנה אף על-עולה |
