איוב 4
| ויען אליפז התימני ויאמר׃ | 1 |
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
| הנסה דבר אליך תלאה ועצר במלין מי יוכל׃ | 2 |
If we analyse to commune with you, will you be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
| הנה יסרת רבים וידים רפות תחזק׃ | 3 |
Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
| כושל יקימון מליך וברכים כרעות תאמץ׃ | 4 |
Your words have raised up him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.
| כי עתה תבוא אליך ותלא תגע עדיך ותבהל׃ | 5 |
But now it has come upon you, and you faint; it touches you, and you are troubled.
| הלא יראתך כסלתך תקותך ותם דרכיך׃ | 6 |
Is not this your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness of your ways?
| זכר נא מי הוא נקי אבד ואיפה ישרים נכחדו׃ | 7 |
Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
| כאשר ראיתי חרשי און וזרעי עמל יקצרהו׃ | 8 |
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
| מנשמת אלוה יאבדו ומרוח אפו יכלו׃ | 9 |
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
| שאגת אריה וקול שחל ושני כפירים נתעו׃ | 10 |
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
| ליש אבד מבלי טרף ובני לביא יתפרדו׃ | 11 |
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
| ואלי דבר יגנב ותקח אזני שמץ מנהו׃ | 12 |
Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
| בשעפים מחזינות לילה בנפל תרדמה על אנשים׃ | 13 |
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
| פחד קראני ורעדה ורב עצמותי הפחיד׃ | 14 |
Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
| ורוח על פני יחלף תסמר שערת בשרי׃ | 15 |
Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
| יעמד ולא אכיר מראהו תמונה לנגד עיני דממה וקול אשמע׃ | 16 |
It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
| האנוש מאלוה יצדק אם מעשהו יטהר גבר׃ | 17 |
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
| הן בעבדיו לא יאמין ובמלאכיו ישים תהלה׃ | 18 |
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
| אף שכני בתי חמר אשר בעפר יסודם ידכאום לפני עש׃ | 19 |
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
| מבקר לערב יכתו מבלי משים לנצח יאבדו׃ | 20 |
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
| הלא נסע יתרם בם ימותו ולא בחכמה׃ | 21 |
Does not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
