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