איוב 30
| ועתה שחקו עלי צעירים ממני לימים אשר מאסתי אבותם לשית עם כלבי צאני׃ | 1 |
"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
| גם כח ידיהם למה לי עלימו אבד כלח׃ | 2 |
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
| בחסר ובכפן גלמוד הערקים ציה אמש שואה ומשאה׃ | 3 |
They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
| הקטפים מלוח עלי שיח ושרש רתמים לחמם׃ | 4 |
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
| מן גו יגרשו יריעו עלימו כגנב׃ | 5 |
They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;
| בערוץ נחלים לשכן חרי עפר וכפים׃ | 6 |
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
| בין שיחים ינהקו תחת חרול יספחו׃ | 7 |
Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together.
| בני נבל גם בני בלי שם נכאו מן הארץ׃ | 8 |
They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.
| ועתה נגינתם הייתי ואהי להם למלה׃ | 9 |
"Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
| תעבוני רחקו מני ומפני לא חשכו רק׃ | 10 |
They abhor me, they keep their distance from me, and do not hesitate to spit in my face.
| כי יתרו פתח ויענני ורסן מפני שלחו׃ | 11 |
For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.
| על ימין פרחח יקומו רגלי שלחו ויסלו עלי ארחות אידם׃ | 12 |
On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
| נתסו נתיבתי להותי יעילו לא עזר למו׃ | 13 |
They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.
| כפרץ רחב יאתיו תחת שאה התגלגלו׃ | 14 |
As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.
| ההפך עלי בלהות תרדף כרוח נדבתי וכעב עברה ישעתי׃ | 15 |
Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
| ועתה עלי תשתפך נפשי יאחזוני ימי עני׃ | 16 |
"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.
| לילה עצמי נקר מעלי וערקי לא ישכבון׃ | 17 |
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
| ברב כח יתחפש לבושי כפי כתנתי יאזרני׃ | 18 |
By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
| הרני לחמר ואתמשל כעפר ואפר׃ | 19 |
He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
| אשוע אליך ולא תענני עמדתי ותתבנן בי׃ | 20 |
I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
| תהפך לאכזר לי בעצם ידך תשטמני׃ | 21 |
You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.
| תשאני אל רוח תרכיבני ותמגגני תשוה׃ | 22 |
You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
| כי ידעתי מות תשיבני ובית מועד לכל חי׃ | 23 |
For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
| אך לא בעי ישלח יד אם בפידו להן שוע׃ | 24 |
"However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
| אם לא בכיתי לקשה יום עגמה נפשי לאביון׃ | 25 |
Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?
| כי טוב קויתי ויבא רע ואיחלה לאור ויבא אפל׃ | 26 |
When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
| מעי רתחו ולא דמו קדמני ימי עני׃ | 27 |
My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
| קדר הלכתי בלא חמה קמתי בקהל אשוע׃ | 28 |
I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
| אח הייתי לתנים ורע לבנות יענה׃ | 29 |
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
| עורי שחר מעלי ועצמי חרה מני חרב׃ | 30 |
My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
| ויהי לאבל כנרי ועגבי לקול בכים׃ | 31 |
Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
