Job 17
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Modern Hebrew Bible
1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
1רוחי חבלה ימי נזעכו קברים לי׃
2Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.
2אם לא התלים עמדי ובהמרותם תלן עיני׃
3Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike hands with me?
3שימה נא ערבני עמך מי הוא לידי יתקע׃
4For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.
4כי לבם צפנת משכל על כן לא תרמם׃
5He that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
5לחלק יגיד רעים ועיני בניו תכלנה׃
6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit.
6והצגני למשל עמים ותפת לפנים אהיה׃
7Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.
7ותכה מכעש עיני ויצרי כצל כלם׃
8Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.
8ישמו ישרים על זאת ונקי על חנף יתערר׃
9Yet the righteous holdeth on his way, and he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger.
9ויאחז צדיק דרכו וטהר ידים יסיף אמץ׃
10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; and I shall not find a wise man among you.
10ואולם כלם תשבו ובאו נא ולא אמצא בכם חכם׃
11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
11ימי עברו זמתי נתקו מורשי לבבי׃
12They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.
12לילה ליום ישימו אור קרוב מפני חשך׃
13If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
13אם אקוה שאול ביתי בחשך רפדתי יצועי׃
14If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister';
14לשחת קראתי אבי אתה אמי ואחתי לרמה׃
15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
15ואיה אפו תקותי ותקותי מי ישורנה׃
16They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in the dust.
16בדי שאל תרדנה אם יחד על עפר נחת׃
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