איוב 35
| וַיַּעַן אֱלִיהוּ וַיֹּאמַֽר׃ | 1 |
Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
| הֲזֹאת חָשַׁבְתָּ לְמִשְׁפָּט אָמַרְתָּ צִדְקִי מֵאֵֽל׃ | 2 |
Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?
| כִּֽי־תֹאמַר מַה־יִּסְכׇּן־לָךְ מָה־אֹעִיל מֵחַטָּאתִֽי׃ | 3 |
For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
| אֲנִי אֲשִֽׁיבְךָ מִלִּין וְֽאֶת־רֵעֶיךָ עִמָּֽךְ׃ | 4 |
I will answer you, and your companions with you.
| הַבֵּט שָׁמַיִם וּרְאֵה וְשׁוּר שְׁחָקִים גָּבְהוּ מִמֶּֽךָּ׃ | 5 |
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
| אִם־חָטָאתָ מַה־תִּפְעׇל־בּוֹ וְרַבּוּ פְשָׁעֶיךָ מַה־תַּֽעֲשֶׂה־לּֽוֹ׃ | 6 |
If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you unto him?
| אִם־צָדַקְתָּ מַה־תִּתֶּן־לוֹ אוֹ מַה־מִּיָּדְךָ יִקָּֽח׃ | 7 |
If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
| לְאִישׁ־כָּמוֹךָ רִשְׁעֶךָ וּלְבֶן־אָדָם צִדְקָתֶֽךָ׃ | 8 |
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
| מֵרֹב עֲשׁוּקִים יַזְעִיקוּ יְשַׁוְּעוּ מִזְּרוֹעַ רַבִּֽים׃ | 9 |
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
| וְֽלֹא־אָמַר אַיֵּה אֱלוֹהַּ עֹשָׂי נֹתֵן זְמִרוֹת בַּלָּֽיְלָה׃ | 10 |
But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
| מַלְּפֵנוּ מִבַּהֲמוֹת אָרֶץ וּמֵעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם יְחַכְּמֵֽנוּ׃ | 11 |
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
| שָׁם יִצְעֲקוּ וְלֹא יַעֲנֶה מִפְּנֵי גְּאוֹן רָעִֽים׃ | 12 |
There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
| אַךְ־שָׁוְא לֹא־יִשְׁמַע ׀ אֵל וְשַׁדַּי לֹא יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃ | 13 |
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
| אַף כִּֽי־תֹאמַר לֹא תְשׁוּרֶנּוּ דִּין לְפָנָיו וּתְחוֹלֵֽל לֽוֹ׃ | 14 |
Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.
| וְעַתָּה כִּי־אַיִן פָּקַד אַפּוֹ וְלֹֽא־יָדַע בַּפַּשׁ מְאֹֽד׃ | 15 |
But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
| וְאִיּוֹב הֶבֶל יִפְצֶה־פִּיהוּ בִּבְלִי־דַעַת מִלִּין יַכְבִּֽר׃ | 16 |
Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
