Job 14
1 “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
| אדם ילוד אשה קצר ימים ושבע רגז׃ |
2 He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
| כציץ יצא וימל ויברח כצל ולא יעמוד׃ |
3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgement with you?
| אף על זה פקחת עינך ואתי תביא במשפט עמך׃ |
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
| מי יתן טהור מטמא לא אחד׃ |
5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
| אם חרוצים ימיו מספר חדשיו אתך חקו עשית ולא יעבור׃ |
6 Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
| שעה מעליו ויחדל עד ירצה כשכיר יומו׃ |
7 “For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
| כי יש לעץ תקוה אם יכרת ועוד יחליף וינקתו לא תחדל׃ |
8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
| אם יזקין בארץ שרשו ובעפר ימות גזעו׃ |
9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.
| מריח מים יפרח ועשה קציר כמו נטע׃ |
10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
| וגבר ימות ויחלש ויגוע אדם ואיו׃ |
11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
| אזלו מים מני ים ונהר יחרב ויבש׃ |
12 so man lies down and doesn’t rise. 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 in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me! (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? I would wait all the days of my warfare, 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 But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
| כי עתה צעדי תספור לא תשמור על חטאתי׃ |
17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
| חתם בצרור פשעי ותטפל על עוני׃ |
18 “But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place.
| ואולם הר נופל יבול וצור יעתק ממקמו׃ |
19 The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
| אבנים שחקו מים תשטף ספיחיה עפר ארץ ותקות אנוש האבדת׃ |
20 You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.
| תתקפהו לנצח ויהלך משנה פניו ותשלחהו׃ |
21 His sons come to honour, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
| יכבדו בניו ולא ידע ויצערו ולא יבין למו׃ |
22 But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”
| אך בשרו עליו יכאב ונפשו עליו תאבל׃ |
