Job 4
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Modern Hebrew Bible
1Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:
1ויען אליפז התימני ויאמר׃
2If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill, but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?
2הנסה דבר אליך תלאה ועצר במלין מי יוכל׃
3Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands:
3הנה יסרת רבים וידים רפות תחזק׃
4Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees:
4כושל יקימון מליך וברכים כרעות תאמץ׃
5But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: it hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.
5כי עתה תבוא אליך ותלא תגע עדיך ותבהל׃
6Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?
6הלא יראתך כסלתך תקותך ותם דרכיך׃
7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?
7זכר נא מי הוא נקי אבד ואיפה ישרים נכחדו׃
8On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,
8כאשר ראיתי חרשי און וזרעי עמל יקצרהו׃
9Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.
9מנשמת אלוה יאבדו ומרוח אפו יכלו׃
10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions are broken:
10שאגת אריה וקול שחל ושני כפירים נתעו׃
11The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.
11ליש אבד מבלי טרף ובני לביא יתפרדו׃
12Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth as it were received the veins of its whisper.
12ואלי דבר יגנב ותקח אזני שמץ מנהו׃
13In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,
13בשעפים מחזינות לילה בנפל תרדמה על אנשים׃
14Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted:
14פחד קראני ורעדה ורב עצמותי הפחיד׃
15And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.
15ורוח על פני יחלף תסמר שערת בשרי׃
16There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice as it were of a gentle wind:
16יעמד ולא אכיר מראהו תמונה לנגד עיני דממה וקול אשמע׃
17Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?
17האנוש מאלוה יצדק אם מעשהו יטהר גבר׃
18Behold they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:
18הן בעבדיו לא יאמין ובמלאכיו ישים תהלה׃
19How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?
19אף שכני בתי חמר אשר בעפר יסודם ידכאום לפני עש׃
20From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.
20מבקר לערב יכתו מבלי משים לנצח יאבדו׃
21And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.
21הלא נסע יתרם בם ימותו ולא בחכמה׃
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