Job 15
1 Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and saide,
2 Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,
Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde, and fill his bellie with the East winde?
3 reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit?
Shall he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable?
4 Hast not you moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?
Surely thou hast cast off feare, and restrainest prayer before God.
5 You are guilty by the words of your mouth, neither have you discerned the words of the mighty.
For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.
6 Let your own mouth, and not me, reprove you: and your lips shall testify against you.
Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee.
7 What! are you the first man that was born? or were you established before the hills?
Art thou the first man, that was borne? and wast thou made before the hils?
8 Or have you heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used you as [his] counsellor? and has wisdom come [only] to you?
Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome to thee?
9 For what know you, that, we know not? or what understand you, which we do not also?
What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs?
10 Truly amongst us [are] both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than your father.
With vs are both auncient and very aged men, farre older then thy father.
11 You have been scourged for [but] few of your sins: you have spoken haughtily [and] extravagantly.
Seeme the consolations of God small vnto thee? is this thing strange vnto thee?
12 What has your heart dared? or what have your eyes [aimed at],
Why doeth thine heart take thee away, and what doe thine eyes meane,
13 that you have vented [your] rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from [your] mouth?
That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth?
14 For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? or, [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just?
What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust?
15 Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.
Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.
16 Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.
How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
17 But I will tell you, listen to me; I will tell you now what I have seen;
I will tell thee: heare me, and I will declare that which I haue seene:
18 things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.
Which wise men haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret:
19 To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them.
To whome alone the land was giuen and no stranger passed through them.
20 All the life of the ungodly [is spent] in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.
The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant.
21 And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.
A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.
22 Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.
He beleeueth not to returne out of darknesse: for he seeth the sworde before him.
23 And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.
He wandreth to and from for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.
24 Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank.
Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell.
25 For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.
For he hath stretched out his hand against GOD, and made him selfe strong against the Almightie.
26 And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.
Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde.
27 For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.
Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke.
28 And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.
Though he dwell in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes,
29 Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth.
30 Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.
He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth.
31 Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.
He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change.
32 His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.
His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day.
33 And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.
God shall destroy him as the vine her sower grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre.
34 For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.
For the congregation of the hypocrite shalbe desolate, and fire shall deuoure the houses of bribes.
35 And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.
For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite.
