איוב 15
| ויען אליפז התימני ויאמר׃ | 1 |
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, 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 with which he can do no good?
| אף אתה תפר יראה ותגרע שיחה לפני אל׃ | 4 |
Yea, thou do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
| כי יאלף עונך פיך ותבחר לשון ערומים׃ | 5 |
For thine iniquity teaches thy mouth. And thou choose the tongue of the crafty.
| ירשיעך פיך ולא אני ושפתיך יענו בך׃ | 6 |
Thine own mouth condemns thee, and not I. Yes, thine own lips testify against thee.
| הראישון אדם תולד ולפני גבעות חוללת׃ | 7 |
Are thou the first man who was born? Or were thou brought forth before the hills?
| הבסוד אלוה תשמע ותגרע אליך חכמה׃ | 8 |
Have thou heard the secret counsel of God? And do thou limit wisdom to thyself?
| מה ידעת ולא נדע תבין ולא עמנו הוא׃ | 9 |
What do thou know, that we do not know? What do thou understand, 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 older than thy father.
| המעט ממך תנחמות 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 does thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,
| כי תשיב אל אל רוחך והצאת מפיך מלין׃ | 13 |
that against God thou turn thy spirit, and let 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 who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
| הן בקדשו לא יאמין ושמים לא זכו בעיניו׃ | 15 |
Behold, he puts 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 who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks 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 |
to 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 travails 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 הוא אלי חרב׃ | 22 |
He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword.
| נדד הוא ללחם איה ידע כי נכון בידו יום חשך׃ | 23 |
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows 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 has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty.
| ירוץ אליו בצואר בעבי גבי מגניו׃ | 26 |
He runs upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick studs of his bucklers,
| כי כסה פניו בחלבו ויעש פימה עלי כסל׃ | 27 |
because he has 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 has 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 he shall 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 hypocrites 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 prepares deceit.
