איוב 33
| ואולם שמע נא איוב מלי וכל דברי האזינה׃ | 1 |
Therefore, hear my speeches, Job, and listen to all my words.
| הנה נא פתחתי פי דברה לשוני בחכי׃ | 2 |
Behold, I have opened my mouth; let my tongue speak along with my throat.
| ישר לבי אמרי ודעת שפתי ברור מללו׃ | 3 |
My words are from my simple heart, and my lips will speak a pure judgment.
| רוח אל עשתני ונשמת שדי תחיני׃ | 4 |
The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.
| אם תוכל השיבני ערכה לפני התיצבה׃ | 5 |
If you can, answer me, and oppose me to my face.
| הן אני כפיך לאל מחמר קרצתי גם אני׃ | 6 |
Behold, God has made me, just as he also has made you, and I, likewise, have been formed of the same clay.
| הנה אמתי לא תבעתך ואכפי עליך לא יכבד׃ | 7 |
So, truly, do not let my wonders terrify you, and do not let my eloquence be burdensome to you.
| אך אמרת באזני וקול מלין אשמע׃ | 8 |
For you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying:
| זך אני בלי פשע חף אנכי ולא עון לי׃ | 9 |
“I am clean and without sin; I am immaculate, and there is no iniquity in me.
| הן תנואות עלי ימצא יחשבני לאויב לו׃ | 10 |
Yet he has discovered blame in me, and so he has treated me like his enemy.
| ישם בסד רגלי ישמר כל ארחתי׃ | 11 |
He has put my feet in fetters; he has kept watch over all my ways.”
| הן זאת לא צדקת אענך כי ירבה אלוה מאנוש׃ | 12 |
Therefore, it is for this reason that you have not been justified. For I tell you that God is greater than man.
| מדוע אליו ריבות כי כל דבריו לא יענה׃ | 13 |
Do you contend against him because he has not responded to all of your words?
| כי באחת ידבר אל ובשתים לא ישורנה׃ | 14 |
God speaks once, and he does not repeat the same thing a second time.
| בחלום חזיון לילה בנפל תרדמה על אנשים בתנומות עלי משכב׃ | 15 |
Through a dream in a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls over men, and they are sleeping in their beds,
| אז יגלה אזן אנשים ובמסרם יחתם׃ | 16 |
then, he opens the ears of men, and, educating them, he teaches discipline,
| להסיר אדם מעשה וגוה מגבר יכסה׃ | 17 |
so that he may divert a man from the things that he is doing, and may free him from pride,
| יחשך נפשו מני שחת וחיתו מעבר בשלח׃ | 18 |
rescuing his soul from corruption and his life from passing away by the sword.
| והוכח במכאוב על משכבו וריב עצמיו אתן׃ | 19 |
Likewise, he rebukes by sorrow in bed, and he causes all of his bones to become weak.
| וזהמתו חיתו לחם ונפשו מאכל תאוה׃ | 20 |
Bread becomes abominable to him in his life, and, to his soul, the meat which before he desired.
| יכל בשרו מראי ושפי עצמותיו לא ראו׃ | 21 |
His body will waste away, and his bones, which had been covered, will be revealed.
| ותקרב לשחת נפשו וחיתו לממתים׃ | 22 |
His soul has approached corruption, and his life has drawn near to what is deadly.
| אם יש עליו מלאך מליץ אחד מני אלף להגיד לאדם ישרו׃ | 23 |
If there were an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare the fairness of the man,
| ויחננו ויאמר פדעהו מרדת שחת מצאתי כפר׃ | 24 |
he will have mercy on him, and he will say, “Free him, so that he will not descend to destruction. I have found a reason to be favorable to him.
| רטפש בשרו מנער ישוב לימי עלומיו׃ | 25 |
His body is consumed by suffering. Let him return to the days of his youth.”
| יעתר אל אלוה וירצהו וירא פניו בתרועה וישב לאנוש צדקתו׃ | 26 |
He will beg pardon from God, and he will be soothing to him; and he will look upon his face in jubilation, and he will restore his justice to man.
| ישר על אנשים ויאמר חטאתי וישר העויתי ולא שוה לי׃ | 27 |
He will consider mankind, and he will say: “I have sinned and truly I have offended, yet I was not treated as I deserved.”
| פדה נפשי מעבר בשחת וחיתי באור תראה׃ | 28 |
He has freed his soul from continuing into destruction, so that, in living, it may see the light.
| הן כל אלה יפעל אל פעמים שלוש עם גבר׃ | 29 |
Behold, all these things God works three times within each one,
| להשיב נפשו מני שחת לאור באור החיים׃ | 30 |
so that he may revive their souls from corruption and enlighten them with the light of life.
| הקשב איוב שמע לי החרש ואנכי אדבר׃ | 31 |
Pay attention Job, and listen to me; and remain silent, while I speak.
| אם יש מלין השיבני דבר כי חפצתי צדקך׃ | 32 |
Yet, if you have anything to say, answer me and speak, for I want you to be treated justly.
| אם אין אתה שמע לי החרש ואאלפך חכמה׃ | 33 |
But if you do not have anything to say, then listen to me. Be quiet and I will teach you wisdom.
