איוב 17
| רוחי חבלה ימי נזעכו קברים לי׃ | 1 |
My spirit, is broken, My days, are extinguished, Graves, are left me.
| אם לא התלים עמדי ובהמרותם תלן עיני׃ | 2 |
Verily there are mockers, with me! And, on their insults, mine eye doth rest.
| שימה נא ערבני עמך מי הוא לידי יתקע׃ | 3 |
Appoint it, I pray thee—be thou surety for me with thyself, Who is there that, on my side, can pledge himself?
| כי לבם צפנת משכל על כן לא תרמם׃ | 4 |
For, their heart, hast thou kept back from understanding, On this account, thou wilt not exalt them.
| לחלק יגיד רעים ועיני בניו תכלנה׃ | 5 |
He that, for a share, denounceth friends, even, the eyes of his children, shall be dim.
| והצגני למשל עמים ותפת לפנים אהיה׃ | 6 |
But he hath set me, as the byword of peoples, And, one to be spit on in the face, do I become.
| ותכה מכעש עיני ויצרי כצל כלם׃ | 7 |
Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.
| ישמו ישרים על זאת ונקי על חנף יתערר׃ | 8 |
Upright men shall be astounded over this, and, the innocent, against the impious, shall rouse themselves.
| ויאחז צדיק דרכו וטהר ידים יסיף אמץ׃ | 9 |
That the righteous may hold on his way, and, the clean of hands, increase in strength.
| ואולם כלם תשבו ובאו נא ולא אמצא בכם חכם׃ | 10 |
But indeed, as for them all, will ye bethink yourselves and enter into it, I pray you? Or shall I not find, among you, one who is wise?
| ימי עברו זמתי נתקו מורשי לבבי׃ | 11 |
My days, are past, my purposes, are broken off, the possessions of my heart!
| לילה ליום ישימו אור קרוב מפני חשך׃ | 12 |
Night for day, they appoint, Light, is near, by reason of darkness!
| אם אקוה שאול ביתי בחשך רפדתי יצועי׃ (Sheol h7585) | 13 |
If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch; (Sheol h7585)
| לשחת קראתי אבי אתה אמי ואחתי לרמה׃ | 14 |
To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm.
| ואיה אפו תקותי ותקותי מי ישורנה׃ | 15 |
Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it!
