Job 36
1 Elihu also continued, and said,
| ויסף אליהוא ויאמר |
2 “Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.
| כתר-לי זעיר ואחוך כי עוד לאלוה מלים |
3 I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
| אשא דעי למרחוק ולפעלי אתן-צדק |
4 For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
| כי-אמנם לא-שקר מלי תמים דעות עמך |
5 “Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.
| הן-אל כביר ולא ימאס כביר כח לב |
6 He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.
| לא-יחיה רשע ומשפט עניים יתן |
7 He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
| לא-יגרע מצדיק עיניו ואת-מלכים לכסא וישיבם לנצח ויגבהו |
8 If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
| ואם-אסורים בזקים ילכדון בחבלי-עני |
9 then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
| ויגד להם פעלם ופשעיהם כי יתגברו |
10 He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
| ויגל אזנם למוסר ויאמר כי-ישובון מאון |
11 If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
| אם-ישמעו ויעבדו יכלו ימיהם בטוב ושניהם בנעימים |
12 But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.
| ואם-לא ישמעו בשלח יעברו ויגועו בבלי-דעת |
13 “But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
| וחנפי-לב ישימו אף לא ישועו כי אסרם |
14 They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
| תמת בנער נפשם וחיתם בקדשים |
15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
| יחלץ עני בעניו ויגל בלחץ אזנם |
16 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
| ואף הסיתך מפי-צר-- רחב לא-מוצק תחתיה ונחת שלחנך מלא דשן |
17 “But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
| ודין-רשע מלאת דין ומשפט יתמכו |
18 Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
| כי-חמה פן-יסיתך בספק ורב-כפר אל-יטך |
19 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
| היערך שועך לא בצר וכל מאמצי-כח |
20 Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
| אל-תשאף הלילה-- לעלות עמים תחתם |
21 Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
| השמר אל-תפן אל-און כי-על-זה בחרת מעני |
22 Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
| הן-אל ישגיב בכחו מי כמהו מורה |
23 Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness’?
| מי-פקד עליו דרכו ומי-אמר פעלת עולה |
24 “Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.
| זכר כי-תשגיא פעלו-- אשר שררו אנשים |
25 All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off.
| כל-אדם חזו-בו אנוש יביט מרחוק |
26 Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
| הן-אל שגיא ולא נדע מספר שניו ולא-חקר |
27 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
| כי יגרע נטפי-מים יזקו מטר לאדו |
28 which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
| אשר-יזלו שחקים ירעפו עלי אדם רב |
29 Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunderings of his pavilion?
| אף אם-יבין מפרשי-עב תשאות סכתו |
30 Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.
| הן-פרש עליו אורו ושרשי הים כסה |
31 For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
| כי-בם ידין עמים יתן-אכל למכביר |
32 He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
| על-כפים כסה-אור ויצו עליה במפגיע |
33 Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also, concerning the storm that comes up.
| יגיד עליו רעו מקנה אף על-עולה |
