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Job 15

Job 15

Job 15:1 ^
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Job 15:1 ^
And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,
Job 15:2 ^
Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
Job 15:2 ^
Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?
Job 15:3 ^
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Job 15:3 ^
Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?
Job 15:4 ^
Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.
Job 15:4 ^
Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.
Job 15:5 ^
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15:5 ^
For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
Job 15:6 ^
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
Job 15:6 ^
It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.
Job 15:7 ^
Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
Job 15:7 ^
Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?
Job 15:8 ^
Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?
Job 15:8 ^
Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?
Job 15:9 ^
What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
Job 15:9 ^
What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?
Job 15:10 ^
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.
Job 15:10 ^
With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.
Job 15:11 ^
Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?
Job 15:11 ^
Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?
Job 15:12 ^
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,
Job 15:12 ^
Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;
Job 15:13 ^
That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?
Job 15:13 ^
So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?
Job 15:14 ^
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 15:14 ^
What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
Job 15:15 ^
Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
Job 15:15 ^
Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;
Job 15:16 ^
How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
Job 15:16 ^
How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
Job 15:17 ^
I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare:
Job 15:17 ^
Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen:
Job 15:18 ^
(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;
Job 15:18 ^
(The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;
Job 15:19 ^
Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):
Job 15:19 ^
For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:)
Job 15:20 ^
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
Job 15:20 ^
The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.
Job 15:21 ^
A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Job 15:21 ^
A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:
Job 15:22 ^
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.
Job 15:22 ^
He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;
Job 15:23 ^
He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Job 15:23 ^
He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:
Job 15:24 ^
Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Job 15:24 ^
He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:
Job 15:25 ^
Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;
Job 15:25 ^
Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,
Job 15:26 ^
He runneth upon him with a [stiff] neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;
Job 15:26 ^
Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,
Job 15:27 ^
Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;
Job 15:27 ^
Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;
Job 15:28 ^
And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;
Job 15:28 ^
And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.
Job 15:29 ^
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
Job 15:29 ^
He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.
Job 15:30 ^
He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.
Job 15:30 ^
He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.
Job 15:31 ^
Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.
Job 15:31 ^
Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.
Job 15:32 ^
It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.
Job 15:32 ^
His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.
Job 15:33 ^
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
Job 15:33 ^
He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.
Job 15:34 ^
For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
Job 15:34 ^
For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.
Job 15:35 ^
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit.
Job 15:35 ^
Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.
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