Job 15
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1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
1ויען אליפז התימני ויאמר׃
2“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
2החכם יענה דעת רוח וימלא קדים בטנו׃
3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
3הוכח בדבר לא יסכון ומלים לא יועיל בם׃
4Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
4אף אתה תפר יראה ותגרע שיחה לפני אל׃
5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
5כי יאלף עונך פיך ותבחר לשון ערומים׃
6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
6ירשיעך פיך ולא אני ושפתיך יענו בך׃
7“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
7הראישון אדם תולד ולפני גבעות חוללת׃
8Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
8הבסוד אלוה תשמע ותגרע אליך חכמה׃
9What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
9מה ידעת ולא נדע תבין ולא עמנו הוא׃
10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
10גם שב גם ישיש בנו כביר מאביך ימים׃
11Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
11המעט ממך תנחמות אל ודבר לאט עמך׃
12Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
12מה יקחך לבך ומה ירזמון עיניך׃
13that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
13כי תשיב אל אל רוחך והצאת מפיך מלין׃
14What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
14מה אנוש כי יזכה וכי יצדק ילוד אשה׃
15Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
15הן בקדשו לא יאמין ושמים לא זכו בעיניו׃
16how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
16אף כי נתעב ונאלח איש שתה כמים עולה׃
17“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare
17אחוך שמע לי וזה חזיתי ואספרה׃
18(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
18אשר חכמים יגידו ולא כחדו מאבותם׃
19to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):
19להם לבדם נתנה הארץ ולא עבר זר בתוכם׃
20the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
20כל ימי רשע הוא מתחולל ומספר שנים נצפנו לעריץ׃
21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
21קול פחדים באזניו בשלום שודד יבואנו׃
22He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
22לא יאמין שוב מני חשך וצפו הוא אלי חרב׃
23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
23נדד הוא ללחם איה ידע כי נכון בידו יום חשך׃
24Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
24יבעתהו צר ומצוקה תתקפהו כמלך עתיד לכידור׃
25Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
25כי נטה אל אל ידו ואל שדי יתגבר׃
26he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
26ירוץ אליו בצואר בעבי גבי מגניו׃
27because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
27כי כסה פניו בחלבו ויעש פימה עלי כסל׃
28He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
28וישכון ערים נכחדות בתים לא ישבו למו אשר התעתדו לגלים׃
29He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
29לא יעשר ולא יקום חילו ולא יטה לארץ מנלם׃
30He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
30לא יסור מני חשך ינקתו תיבש שלהבת ויסור ברוח פיו׃
31Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
31אל יאמן בשו נתעה כי שוא תהיה תמורתו׃
32It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
32בלא יומו תמלא וכפתו לא רעננה׃
33He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
33יחמס כגפן בסרו וישלך כזית נצתו׃
34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
34כי עדת חנף גלמוד ואש אכלה אהלי שחד׃
35They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
35הרה עמל וילד און ובטנם תכין מרמה׃
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