Job 18
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
| ויען בלדד השחי ויאמר׃ |
2 How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
| עד אנה תשימון קנצי למלין תבינו ואחר נדבר׃ |
3 Why are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?
| מדוע נחשבנו כבהמה נטמינו בעיניכם׃ |
4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?
| טרף נפשו באפו הלמענך תעזב ארץ ויעתק צור ממקמו׃ |
5 Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
| גם אור רשעים ידעך ולא יגה שביב אשו׃ |
6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
| אור חשך באהלו ונרו עליו ידעך׃ |
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
| יצרו צעדי אונו ותשליכהו עצתו׃ |
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
| כי שלח ברשת ברגליו ועל שבכה יתהלך׃ |
9 The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.
| יאחז בעקב פח יחזק עליו צמים׃ |
10 The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
| טמון בארץ חבלו ומלכדתו עלי נתיב׃ |
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
| סביב בעתהו בלהות והפיצהו לרגליו׃ |
12 His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.
| יהי רעב אנו ואיד נכון לצלעו׃ |
13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the first-born of death shall devour his strength.
| יאכל בדי עורו יאכל בדיו בכור מות׃ |
14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
| ינתק מאהלו מבטחו ותצעדהו למלך בלהות׃ |
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
| תשכון באהלו מבלי לו יזרה על נוהו גפרית׃ |
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
| מתחת שרשיו יבשו וממעל ימל קצירו׃ |
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
| זכרו אבד מני ארץ ולא שם לו על פני חוץ׃ |
18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
| יהדפהו מאור אל חשך ומתבל ינדהו׃ |
19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
| לא נין לו ולא נכד בעמו ואין שריד במגוריו׃ |
20 They that come after [him] shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
| על יומו נשמו אחרנים וקדמנים אחזו שער׃ |
21 Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God.
| אך אלה משכנות עול וזה מקום לא ידע אל׃ |
