Job 5
1 Call out now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
| קרא-נא היש עונך ואל-מי מקדשים תפנה |
2 For anger kills the foolish man; jealousy kills the silly one.
| כי-לאויל יהרג-כעש ופתה תמית קנאה |
3 I have seen a foolish person taking root, but suddenly I cursed his home.
| אני-ראיתי אויל משריש ואקוב נוהו פתאם |
4 His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the city gate. There is no one to rescue them.
| ירחקו בניו מישע וידכאו בשער ואין מציל |
5 The hungry eat up their harvest; they even take it from among the thorns. The thirsty pant for their wealth.
| אשר קצירו רעב יאכל--ואל-מצנים יקחהו ושאף צמים חילם |
6 For difficulties do not come out from the soil; neither does trouble sprout from the ground.
| כי לא-יצא מעפר און ומאדמה לא-יצמח עמל |
7 Instead, mankind is born for trouble, just as sparks fly upward.
| כי-אדם לעמל יולד ובני-רשף יגביהו עוף |
8 But as for me, I would turn to God himself; to him I would commit my cause—
| אולם--אני אדרש אל-אל ואל-אלהים אשים דברתי |
9 he who does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number.
| עשה גדלות ואין חקר נפלאות עד-אין מספר |
10 He gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields.
| הנתן מטר על-פני-ארץ ושלח מים על-פני חוצות |
11 He does this in order to set up on high those who are low; to raise to safety those who mourn.
| לשום שפלים למרום וקדרים שגבו ישע |
12 He breaks the plans of the crafty people, so that their hands cannot achieve success.
| מפר מחשבות ערומים ולא-תעשנה ידיהם תשיה |
13 He traps wise people in their own crafty actions; the plans of twisted people are hurried to their end.
| לכד חכמים בערמם ועצת נפתלים נמהרה |
14 They encounter darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as if it were night.
| יומם יפגשו-חשך וכלילה ימששו בצהרים |
15 But he saves the poor person from the sword in their mouths and the needy person from the hand of mighty people.
| וישע מחרב מפיהם ומיד חזק אביון |
16 So the poor person has hope, and injustice shuts her own mouth.
| ותהי לדל תקוה ועלתה קפצה פיה |
17 See, blessed is the man whom God corrects; therefore, do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
| הנה אשרי אנוש יוכחנו אלוה ומוסר שדי אל-תמאס |
18 For he wounds and then binds up; he wounds and then his hands heal.
| כי הוא יכאיב ויחבש ימחץ וידו תרפינה |
19 He will rescue you out of six troubles; indeed, in seven troubles, no evil will touch you.
| בשש צרות יצילך ובשבע לא-יגע בך רע |
20 In famine he will ransom you from death, and in war from the hands of the sword.
| ברעב פדך ממות ובמלחמה מידי חרב |
21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue; and you will not be afraid of destruction when it comes.
| בשוט לשון תחבא ולא-תירא משד כי יבוא |
22 You will laugh at destruction and famine, and you will not be afraid of beasts of the earth.
| לשד ולכפן תשחק ומחית הארץ אל-תירא |
23 For you will have a covenant with the stones in your field, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.
| כי עם-אבני השדה בריתך וחית השדה השלמה-לך |
24 You will know that your tent is in safety; you will visit your sheepfold and you will not miss anything.
| וידעת כי-שלום אהלך ופקדת נוך ולא תחטא |
25 You will also know that your seed will be great, that your offspring will be like the grass on the ground.
| וידעת כי-רב זרעך וצאצאיך כעשב הארץ |
26 You will come to your grave at a full age, like a stack of grain bundles that goes up at its time.
| תבוא בכלח אלי-קבר כעלות גדיש בעתו |
27 See, we have examined this matter; it is like this; listen to it, and know it for yourself.”
| הנה-זאת חקרנוה כן-היא שמענה ואתה דע-לך |
