איוב 17
| רוחי חבלה ימי נזעכו קברים לי׃ | 1 |
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
| אם לא התלים עמדי ובהמרותם תלן עיני׃ | 2 |
Are there not mockers with me? and does not mine eye continue in their provocation?
| שימה נא ערבני עמך מי הוא לידי יתקע׃ | 3 |
Lay down now, put me in a guarantor with you; who is he that will shake hands with me?
| כי לבם צפנת משכל על כן לא תרמם׃ | 4 |
For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.
| לחלק יגיד רעים ועיני בניו תכלנה׃ | 5 |
He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
| והצגני למשל עמים ותפת לפנים אהיה׃ | 6 |
He has made me also a byword of the people; and in old times I was as a timbrel.
| ותכה מכעש עיני ויצרי כצל כלם׃ | 7 |
Mine eye also is dim by reason 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 up himself against the hypocrite.
| ויאחז צדיק דרכו וטהר ידים יסיף אמץ׃ | 9 |
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
| ואולם כלם תשבו ובאו נא ולא אמצא בכם חכם׃ | 10 |
But as for you all, do all of you return, and come now: for I cannot find one 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 is short because of darkness.
| אם אקוה שאול ביתי בחשך רפדתי יצועי׃ (Sheol h7585) | 13 |
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. (Sheol h7585)
| לשחת קראתי אבי אתה אמי ואחתי לרמה׃ | 14 |
I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.
| ואיה אפו תקותי ותקותי מי ישורנה׃ | 15 |
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
