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 to me.
| הברב כח יריב עמדי לא אך הוא ישם בי׃ | 6 |
Would 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 doth work, but I cannot behold [him]: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see [him]:
| כי ידע דרך עמדי בחנני כזהב אצא׃ | 10 |
But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
| באשרו אחזה רגלי דרכו שמרתי ולא אט׃ | 11 |
My foot hath 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 desireth, even [that] he doeth.
| כי ישלים חקי וכהנה רבות עמו׃ | 14 |
For he performeth [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 maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
| כי לא נצמתי מפני חשך ומפני כסה אפל׃ | 17 |
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.
