איוב 15
| ויען אליפז התימני ויאמר׃ | 1 |
Then answered Eliphaz the Themanite, and said,
| החכם יענה דעת רוח וימלא קדים בטנו׃ | 2 |
Should a wise man utter windy knowledge, and fill his inward parts with the east wind?
| הוכח בדבר לא יסכון ומלים לא יועיל בם׃ | 3 |
Should he reason with a speech which availeth nothing? and with words in which there is no profit?
| אף אתה תפר יראה ותגרע שיחה לפני אל׃ | 4 |
Yea, thou truly makest void the fear [of God], and diminishest devotion before God.
| כי יאלף עונך פיך ותבחר לשון ערומים׃ | 5 |
For thy iniquity teacheth thy mouth, so that thou choosest the language of the crafty.
| ירשיעך פיך ולא אני ושפתיך יענו בך׃ | 6 |
Thy own mouth must condemn thee, but not I: yea, thy own lips will testify against thee.
| הראישון אדם תולד ולפני גבעות חוללת׃ | 7 |
Wast thou born as the first man? or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
| הבסוד אלוה תשמע ותגרע אליך חכמה׃ | 8 |
Hast thou listened to the secret counsel of God? and is wisdom therefore of little esteem with thee?
| מה ידעת ולא נדע תבין ולא עמנו הוא׃ | 9 |
What knowest thou, that we do not know? what understandest thou, which is not with us?
| גם שב גם ישיש בנו כביר מאביך ימים׃ | 10 |
Both the grayheaded and the very aged are among us, — richer than thy father in days.
| המעט ממך תנחמות אל ודבר לאט עמך׃ | 11 |
Are the divine consolations too little for thee? and the word that was so mild with thee?
| מה יקחך לבך ומה ירזמון עיניך׃ | 12 |
Whither doth thy heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes gaze at?
| כי תשיב אל אל רוחך והצאת מפיך מלין׃ | 13 |
That thou shouldst turn against God thy spirit, and utter [such] words out of thy mouth?
| מה אנוש כי יזכה וכי יצדק ילוד אשה׃ | 14 |
What is man, that he should be pure? and that he who is born of woman should be declared righteous?
| הן בקדשו לא יאמין ושמים לא זכו בעיניו׃ | 15 |
Behold, in his holy ones he putteth no trust; and the heavens are not pure in his eyes:
| אף כי נתעב ונאלח איש שתה כמים עולה׃ | 16 |
How much more then the abominable and corrupt, the man who drinketh like water wrong-doing?
| אחוך שמע לי וזה חזיתי ואספרה׃ | 17 |
I will instruct thee, hear me; and what I have seen will I relate;
| אשר חכמים יגידו ולא כחדו מאבותם׃ | 18 |
Which wise men have ever told, and have not concealed, as they obtained it from their fathers;
| להם לבדם נתנה הארץ ולא עבר זר בתוכם׃ | 19 |
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and into whose midst no stranger ever entered.
| כל ימי רשע הוא מתחולל ומספר שנים נצפנו לעריץ׃ | 20 |
All his days is the wicked plagued with pain, and the number of years which are laid by for the tyrant.
| קול פחדים באזניו בשלום שודד יבואנו׃ | 21 |
A sound of terrors is in his ears: during peace will the waster come over him.
| לא יאמין שוב מני חשך וצפו הוא אלי חרב׃ | 22 |
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is looked for by 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 there is ready at his hand the day of darkness.
| יבעתהו צר ומצוקה תתקפהו כמלך עתיד לכידור׃ | 24 |
Distress and anguish terrify him: they assail him with might, as a king prepared for the battle.
| כי נטה אל אל ידו ואל שדי יתגבר׃ | 25 |
Because he had stretched out against God his hand, and strengthened himself against the Almighty;
| ירוץ אליו בצואר בעבי גבי מגניו׃ | 26 |
[And] he had run against him, with an [extended] neck, with the thick roundings of his bucklers;
| כי כסה פניו בחלבו ויעש פימה עלי כסל׃ | 27 |
Because he had covered his face with his fat, and had made thick folds of fat on his flanks;
| וישכון ערים נכחדות בתים לא ישבו למו אשר התעתדו לגלים׃ | 28 |
And he dwelt in abandoned cities, in houses which none inhabited, which were destined to be ruinous heaps.
| לא יעשר ולא יקום חילו ולא יטה לארץ מנלם׃ | 29 |
[Yet] will he not remain rich, neither will his wealth endure, nor will he attain their perfection on earth.
| לא יסור מני חשך ינקתו תיבש שלהבת ויסור ברוח פיו׃ | 30 |
He will never depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his shoots, and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth.
| אל יאמן בשו נתעה כי שוא תהיה תמורתו׃ | 31 |
Let him that goeth astray not trust in vanity; for vanity will be what he obtaineth thereby.
| בלא יומו תמלא וכפתו לא רעננה׃ | 32 |
Even before his time will it be overfull, and his branches will not be green.
| יחמס כגפן בסרו וישלך כזית נצתו׃ | 33 |
He will shake off like the vine his unripe grapes, and cast off like the olive his blossoms.
| כי עדת חנף גלמוד ואש אכלה אהלי שחד׃ | 34 |
For the assembly of hypocrites will remain desolate, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
| הרה עמל וילד און ובטנם תכין מרמה׃ | 35 |
They conceive trouble, and bring forth wrong-doing, and their body prepareth deceit.
