איוב 18

1 ויען בלדד השחי ויאמר

Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

2 עד-אנה תשימון קנצי למלין תבינו ואחר נדבר

How long wilt thou continue? forbear, that we also may speak.

3 מדוע נחשבנו כבהמה נטמינו בעיניכם

For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?

4 טרף נפשו באפו הלמענך תעזב ארץ ויעתק-צור ממקמו

Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would [the earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

5 גם אור רשעים ידעך ולא-יגה שביב אשו

But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.

6 אור חשך באהלו ונרו עליו ידעך

His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

7 יצרו צעדי אונו ותשליכהו עצתו

Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].

8 כי-שלח ברשת ברגליו ועל-שבכה יתהלך

His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.

9 יאחז בעקב פח יחזק עליו צמים

And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.

10 טמון בארץ חבלו ומלכדתו עלי נתיב

His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.

11 סביב בעתהו בלהות והפיצהו לרגליו

Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,

12 יהי-רעב אנו ואיד נכון לצלעו

[vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.

13 יאכל בדי עורו יאכל בדיו בכור מות

Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.

14 ינתק מאהלו מבטחו ותצעדהו למלך בלהות

And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.

15 תשכון באהלו מבלי-לו יזרה על-נוהו גפרית

It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

16 מתחת שרשיו יבשו וממעל ימל קצירו

His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.

17 זכרו-אבד מני-ארץ ולא-שם לו על-פני-חוץ

Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.

18 יהדפהו מאור אל-חשך ומתבל ינדהו

Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

19 לא נין לו ולא-נכד בעמו ואין שריד במגוריו

He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

20 על-יומו נשמו אחרנים וקדמנים אחזו שער

But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.

21 אך-אלה משכנות עול וזה מקום לא-ידע-אל

These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.