< איוב 8 >
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
עד-אן תמלל-אלה ורוח כביר אמרי-פיך | 2 |
How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
האל יעות משפט ואם-שדי יעות-צדק | 3 |
Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?
אם-בניך חטאו-לו וישלחם ביד-פשעם | 4 |
If your children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
אם-אתה תשחר אל-אל ואל-שדי תתחנן | 5 |
If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty;
אם-זך וישר אתה כי-עתה יעיר עליך ושלם נות צדקך | 6 |
If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
והיה ראשיתך מצער ואחריתך ישגה מאד | 7 |
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.
כי-שאל-נא לדר רישון וכונן לחקר אבותם | 8 |
For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:
כי-תמול אנחנו ולא נדע כי צל ימינו עלי-ארץ | 9 |
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow: )
הלא-הם יורוך יאמרו לך ומלבם יוצאו מלים | 10 |
Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
היגאה-גמא בלא בצה ישגה-אחו בלי-מים | 11 |
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
עדנו באבו לא יקטף ולפני כל-חציר ייבש | 12 |
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it wither before any other herb.
כן--ארחות כל-שכחי אל ותקות חנף תאבד | 13 |
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
אשר-יקוט כסלו ובית עכביש מבטחו | 14 |
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
ישען על-ביתו ולא יעמד יחזיק בו ולא יקום | 15 |
He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
רטב הוא לפני-שמש ועל גנתו ינקתו תצא | 16 |
He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.
על-גל שרשיו יסבכו בית אבנים יחזה | 17 |
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones.
אם-יבלענו ממקמו וכחש בו לא ראיתיך | 18 |
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you.
הן-הוא משוש דרכו ומעפר אחר יצמחו | 19 |
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
הן-אל לא ימאס-תם ולא-יחזיק ביד-מרעים | 20 |
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
עד-ימלה שחוק פיך ושפתיך תרועה | 21 |
Till he fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.
שנאיך ילבשו-בשת ואהל רשעים איננו | 22 |
They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.