Job 18
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
| ויען בלדד השחי ויאמר |
2 “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
| עד-אנה תשימון קנצי למלין תבינו ואחר נדבר |
3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
| מדוע נחשבנו כבהמה נטמינו בעיניכם |
4 You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
| טרף נפשו באפו הלמענך תעזב ארץ ויעתק-צור ממקמו |
5 “Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.
| גם אור רשעים ידעך ולא-יגה שביב אשו |
6 The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
| אור חשך באהלו ונרו עליו ידעך |
7 The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.
| יצרו צעדי אונו ותשליכהו עצתו |
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
| כי-שלח ברשת ברגליו ועל-שבכה יתהלך |
9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
| יאחז בעקב פח יחזק עליו צמים |
10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
| טמון בארץ חבלו ומלכדתו עלי נתיב |
11 Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.
| סביב בעתהו בלהות והפיצהו לרגליו |
12 His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
| יהי-רעב אנו ואיד נכון לצלעו |
13 The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.
| יאכל בדי עורו יאכל בדיו בכור מות |
14 He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.
| ינתק מאהלו מבטחו ותצעדהו למלך בלהות |
15 There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulphur will be scattered on his habitation.
| תשכון באהלו מבלי-לו יזרה על-נוהו גפרית |
16 His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.
| מתחת שרשיו יבשו וממעל ימל קצירו |
17 His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.
| זכרו-אבד מני-ארץ ולא-שם לו על-פני-חוץ |
18 He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
| יהדפהו מאור אל-חשך ומתבל ינדהו |
19 He will have neither son nor grandson amongst his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
| לא נין לו ולא-נכד בעמו ואין שריד במגוריו |
20 Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
| על-יומו נשמו אחרנים וקדמנים אחזו שער |
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”
| אך-אלה משכנות עול וזה מקום לא-ידע-אל |
