איוב 23
| ויען איוב ויאמר׃ | 1 |
Then Job answered and said,
| גם היום מרי שחי ידי כבדה על אנחתי׃ | 2 |
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
| מי יתן ידעתי ואמצאהו אבוא עד תכונתו׃ | 3 |
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
| אערכה לפניו משפט ופי אמלא תוכחות׃ | 4 |
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
| אדעה מלים יענני ואבינה מה יאמר לי׃ | 5 |
I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
| הברב כח יריב עמדי לא אך הוא ישם בי׃ | 6 |
Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
| שם ישר נוכח עמו ואפלטה לנצח משפטי׃ | 7 |
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
| הן קדם אהלך ואיננו ואחור ולא אבין לו׃ | 8 |
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
| שמאול בעשתו ולא אחז יעטף ימין ולא אראה׃ | 9 |
On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him: he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
| כי ידע דרך עמדי בחנני כזהב אצא׃ | 10 |
But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
| באשרו אחזה רגלי דרכו שמרתי ולא אט׃ | 11 |
My foot has held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
| מצות שפתיו ולא אמיש מחקי צפנתי אמרי פיו׃ | 12 |
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
| והוא באחד ומי ישיבנו ונפשו אותה ויעש׃ | 13 |
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.
| כי ישלים חקי וכהנה רבות עמו׃ | 14 |
For he performs the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
| על כן מפניו אבהל אתבונן ואפחד ממנו׃ | 15 |
Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
| ואל הרך לבי ושדי הבהילני׃ | 16 |
For God makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me:
| כי לא נצמתי מפני חשך ומפני כסה אפל׃ | 17 |
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face.
