Job 17
1 “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
| רוחי חבלה ימי נזעכו קברים לי |
2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
| אם-לא התלים עמדי ובהמרותם תלן עיני |
3 “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
| שימה-נא ערבני עמך מי הוא לידי יתקע |
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
| כי-לבם צפנת משכל על-כן לא תרמם |
5 He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
| לחלק יגיד רעים ועיני בניו תכלנה |
6 “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
| והציגני למשל עמים ותפת לפנים אהיה |
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
| ותכה מכעש עיני ויצרי כצל כלם |
8 Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
| ישמו ישרים על-זאת ונקי על-חנף יתערר |
9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
| ויאחז צדיק דרכו וטהר-ידים יסיף אמץ |
10 But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
| ואולם--כלם תשבו ובאו נא ולא-אמצא בכם חכם |
11 My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
| ימי עברו זמתי נתקו-- מורשי לבבי |
12 They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
| לילה ליום ישימו אור קרוב מפני-חשך |
| אם-אקוה שאול ביתי בחשך רפדתי יצועי (Sheol h7585) |
14 if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
| לשחת קראתי אבי אתה אמי ואחתי לרמה |
15 where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
| ואיה אפו תקותי ותקותי מי ישורנה |
