איוב 18
| ויען בלדד השחי ויאמר׃ | 1 |
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
| עד אנה תשימון קנצי למלין תבינו ואחר נדבר׃ | 2 |
When will yee make an ende of your words? cause vs to vnderstande, and then wee will speake.
| מדוע נחשבנו כבהמה נטמינו בעיניכם׃ | 3 |
Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight?
| טרף נפשו באפו הלמענך תעזב ארץ ויעתק צור ממקמו׃ | 4 |
Thou art as one that teareth his soule in his anger. Shall the earth bee forsaken for thy sake? or the rocke remoued out of his place?
| גם אור רשעים ידעך ולא יגה שביב אשו׃ | 5 |
Yea, the light of the wicked shalbe quenched, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine.
| אור חשך באהלו ונרו עליו ידעך׃ | 6 |
The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.
| יצרו צעדי אונו ותשליכהו עצתו׃ | 7 |
The steps of his strength shalbe restrained, and his owne counsell shall cast him downe.
| כי שלח ברשת ברגליו ועל שבכה יתהלך׃ | 8 |
For hee is taken in the net by his feete, and he walketh vpon the snares.
| יאחז בעקב פח יחזק עליו צמים׃ | 9 |
The grenne shall take him by the heele, and the theefe shall come vpon him.
| טמון בארץ חבלו ומלכדתו עלי נתיב׃ | 10 |
A snare is layed for him in the ground, and a trappe for him in the way.
| סביב בעתהו בלהות והפיצהו לרגליו׃ | 11 |
Fearefulnesse shall make him afrayde on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.
| יהי רעב אנו ואיד נכון לצלעו׃ | 12 |
His strength shalbe famine: and destruction shalbe readie at his side.
| יאכל בדי עורו יאכל בדיו בכור מות׃ | 13 |
It shall deuoure the inner partes of his skinne, and the first borne of death shall deuoure his strength.
| ינתק מאהלו מבטחו ותצעדהו למלך בלהות׃ | 14 |
His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, and shall cause him to go to the King of feare.
| תשכון באהלו מבלי לו יזרה על נוהו גפרית׃ | 15 |
Feare shall dwell in his house (because it is not his) and brimstone shalbe scattered vpon his habitation.
| מתחת שרשיו יבשו וממעל ימל קצירו׃ | 16 |
His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his branche be cut downe.
| זכרו אבד מני ארץ ולא שם לו על פני חוץ׃ | 17 |
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.
| יהדפהו מאור אל חשך ומתבל ינדהו׃ | 18 |
They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.
| לא נין לו ולא נכד בעמו ואין שריד במגוריו׃ | 19 |
Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephewe among his people, nor any posteritie in his dwellings.
| על יומו נשמו אחרנים וקדמנים אחזו שער׃ | 20 |
The posteritie shalbe astonied at his day, and feare shall come vpon the ancient.
| אך אלה משכנות עול וזה מקום לא ידע אל׃ | 21 |
Surely such are the habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
