איוב 17
| רוחי חבלה ימי נזעכו קברים לי׃ | 1 |
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
| אם לא התלים עמדי ובהמרותם תלן עיני׃ | 2 |
Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.
| שימה נא ערבני עמך מי הוא לידי יתקע׃ | 3 |
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself. Who is there that will strike hands with me?
| כי לבם צפנת משכל על כן לא תרמם׃ | 4 |
For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt them.
| לחלק יגיד רעים ועיני בניו תכלנה׃ | 5 |
He who denounces his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.
| והצגני למשל עמים ותפת לפנים אהיה׃ | 6 |
But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.
| ותכה מכעש עיני ויצרי כצל כלם׃ | 7 |
My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
| ישמו ישרים על זאת ונקי על חנף יתערר׃ | 8 |
Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the profane.
| ויאחז צדיק דרכו וטהר ידים יסיף אמץ׃ | 9 |
Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
| ואולם כלם תשבו ובאו נא ולא אמצא בכם חכם׃ | 10 |
But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
| ימי עברו זמתי נתקו מורשי לבבי׃ | 11 |
My days are past. My purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
| לילה ליום ישימו אור קרוב מפני חשך׃ | 12 |
They change the night into day. The light, they say, is near to the darkness.
| אם אקוה שאול ביתי בחשך רפדתי יצועי׃ (Sheol h7585) | 13 |
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, (Sheol h7585)
| לשחת קראתי אבי אתה אמי ואחתי לרמה׃ | 14 |
if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
| ואיה אפו תקותי ותקותי מי ישורנה׃ | 15 |
where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
