Job 15
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1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: 1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2"Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind? 2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
3Does he argue with useless talk, with words that have no value in them? 3Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God. 4Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
5Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty. 5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you. 6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
7"Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills? 7Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
8Do you listen in on God's secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? 8Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
9What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that we don't understand? 9What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
10The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father. 10With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
11Are God's consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you? 11Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
12Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash, 12Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth? 13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
14What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? 14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes, 15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water! 16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
17"I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare, 17I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
18what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors, 18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
19to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them. 19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant. 20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him. 21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword; 22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
23he wanders about--food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand. 23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack, 24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty, 25For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
26defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield! 26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
27Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat, 27Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps. 28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land. 29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth. 30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
31Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward. 31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
32Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish. 32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
33Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms. 33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
34For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes. 34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
35They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception." 35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
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