Shir ha-Shirim (שיר השירים ) - Cantico dei Cantici 19

MODERN HEBREW BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 ויען איוב ויאמר	1 But Job answered by saying:
2 עד אנה תוגיון נפשי ותדכאונני במלים	2 How long will you afflict my soul and wear me down with words?
3 זה עשר פעמים תכלימוני לא תבשו תהכרו לי	3 So, ten times you confound me and are not ashamed to oppress me.
4 ואף אמנם שגיתי אתי תלין משוגתי	4 Now, of course, if I have been ignorant, my ignorance will be with me.
5 אם אמנם עלי תגדילו ותוכיחו עלי חרפתי	5 But you have risen up against me, and you accuse me to my disgrace.
6 דעו אפו כי אלוה עותני ומצודו עלי הקיף	6 At least now you should understand that God has not afflicted me with a balanced judgment, though he has encompassed me with his scourges.
7 הן אצעק חמס ולא אענה אשוע ואין משפט	7 Behold, I will cry out, enduring violence, and no one will hear. I will announce loudly, but there is no one who may judge.
8 ארחי גדר ולא אעבור ועל נתיבותי חשך ישים	8 He has hemmed in my path, and I cannot pass; he has added darkness to my difficult path.
9 כבודי מעלי הפשיט ויסר עטרת ראשי	9 He has plundered me of my glory, and he has stolen the crown from my head.
10 יתצני סביב ואלך ויסע כעץ תקותי	10 He has destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and, like an uprooted tree, he has taken away my hope.
11 ויחר עלי אפו ויחשבני לו כצריו	11 His fury has raged against me, and in this way he has treated me like his enemy.
12 יחד יבאו גדודיו ויסלו עלי דרכם ויחנו סביב לאהלי	12 His troops have gathered together, and they have made their way to me, and they have besieged my tabernacle all around.
13 אחי מעלי הרחיק וידעי אך זרו ממני	13 He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have withdrawn from me like strangers.
14 חדלו קרובי ומידעי שכחוני	14 My kinsmen have forsaken me, and those who knew me, have forgotten me.
15 גרי ביתי ואמהתי לזר תחשבני נכרי הייתי בעיניהם	15 The inhabitants of my house and my maidservants treat me just as if I were a stranger, and I have been like an sojourner in their eyes.
16 לעבדי קראתי ולא יענה במו פי אתחנן לו	16 I called my servant, and he did not respond; I pleaded with him with my own mouth.
17 רוחי זרה לאשתי וחנתי לבני בטני	17 My wife has shuddered at my breath, and I have begged the sons of my loins.
18 גם עוילים מאסו בי אקומה וידברו בי	18 Even the foolish have looked down on me, and, when I withdrew from them, they spoke ill of me.
19 תעבוני כל מתי סודי וזה אהבתי נהפכו בי	19 Those who were sometime my counselors, treat me like an abomination; and he whom I valued the most has turned against me.
20 בעורי ובבשרי דבקה עצמי ואתמלטה בעור שני	20 Since my flesh has been consumed, my bone adheres to my skin, and only my lips have been left around my teeth.
21 חנני חנני אתם רעי כי יד אלוה נגעה בי	21 Have mercy on me, have compassion on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord has touched me.
22 למה תרדפני כמו אל ומבשרי לא תשבעו	22 Why do you pursue me just as God does, and satiate yourselves with my flesh?
23 מי יתן אפו ויכתבון מלי מי יתן בספר ויחקו	23 Who will grant to me that my words may be written down? Who will grant to me that they may be inscribed in a book,
24 בעט ברזל ועפרת לעד בצור יחצבון	24 with an iron pen and a plate of lead, or else be carved in stone?
25 ואני ידעתי גאלי חי ואחרון על עפר יקום	25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and on the last day I will rise out of the earth.
26 ואחר עורי נקפו זאת ומבשרי אחזה אלוה	26 And I will be enveloped again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.
27 אשר אני אחזה לי ועיני ראו ולא זר כלו כליתי בחקי	27 It is he whom I myself will see, and he whom my eyes will behold, and no other. This, my hope, has taken rest in my bosom.
28 כי תאמרו מה נרדף לו ושרש דבר נמצא בי	28 Why then do you now say: “Let us pursue him, and let us find a basis to speak against him?”
29 גורו לכם מפני חרב כי חמה עונות חרב למען תדעון שדין	29 So then, flee from the face of the sword, for the sword is the avenger of iniquities; but know this: there is to be a judgment.