איוב 15
| ויען אליפז התימני ויאמר | 1 |
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
| החכם יענה דעת-רוח וימלא קדים בטנו | 2 |
Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
| הוכח בדבר לא-יסכון ומלים לא-יועיל בם | 3 |
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
| אף-אתה תפר יראה ותגרע שיחה לפני-אל | 4 |
Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.
| כי יאלף עונך פיך ותבחר לשון ערומים | 5 |
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
| ירשיעך פיך ולא-אני ושפתיך יענו-בך | 6 |
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
| הראישון אדם תולד ולפני גבעות חוללת | 7 |
Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
| הבסוד אלוה תשמע ותגרע אליך חכמה | 8 |
Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?
| מה-ידעת ולא נדע תבין ולא-עמנו הוא | 9 |
What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
| גם-שב גם-ישיש בנו-- כביר מאביך ימים | 10 |
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.
| המעט ממך תנחומות אל ודבר לאט עמך | 11 |
Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?
| מה-יקחך לבך ומה-ירזמון עיניך | 12 |
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,
| כי-תשיב אל-אל רוחך והצאת מפיך מלין | 13 |
That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?
| מה-אנוש כי-יזכה וכי-יצדק ילוד אשה | 14 |
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
| הן בקדשו לא יאמין ושמים לא-זכו בעיניו | 15 |
Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
| אף כי-נתעב ונאלח איש-שתה כמים עולה | 16 |
How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
| אחוך שמע-לי וזה-חזיתי ואספרה | 17 |
I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare
| אשר-חכמים יגידו ולא כחדו מאבותם | 18 |
(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;
| להם לבדם נתנה הארץ ולא-עבר זר בתוכם | 19 |
Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):
| כל-ימי רשע הוא מתחולל ומספר שנים נצפנו לעריץ | 20 |
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
| קול-פחדים באזניו בשלום שודד יבואנו | 21 |
A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
| לא-יאמין שוב מני-חשך וצפו (וצפוי) הוא אלי-חרב | 22 |
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.
| נדד הוא ללחם איה ידע כי-נכון בידו יום-חשך | 23 |
He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
| יבעתהו צר ומצוקה תתקפהו כמלך עתיד לכידור | 24 |
Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
| כי-נטה אל-אל ידו ואל-שדי יתגבר | 25 |
Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;
| ירוץ אליו בצואר בעבי גבי מגניו | 26 |
He runneth upon him with a [stiff] neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;
| כי-כסה פניו בחלבו ויעש פימה עלי-כסל | 27 |
Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;
| וישכון ערים נכחדות--בתים לא-ישבו למו אשר התעתדו לגלים | 28 |
And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;
| לא-יעשר ולא-יקום חילו ולא-יטה לארץ מנלם | 29 |
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
| לא-יסור מני-חשך--ינקתו תיבש שלהבת ויסור ברוח פיו | 30 |
He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God’s] mouth shall he go away.
| אל-יאמן בשו נתעה כי-שוא תהיה תמורתו | 31 |
Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.
| בלא-יומו תמלא וכפתו לא רעננה | 32 |
It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.
| יחמס כגפן בסרו וישלך כזית נצתו | 33 |
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
| כי-עדת חנף גלמוד ואש אכלה אהלי-שחד | 34 |
For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
| הרה עמל וילד און ובטנם תכין מרמה | 35 |
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit.
