Job 15
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and saide,
2 “Would a wise man answer with such empty ‘knowledge’ that is just a lot of hot air?
Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde, and fill his bellie with the East winde?
3 He wouldn't argue with unprofitable speeches using words that do no good.
Shall he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable?
4 But you are doing away with the fear of God, and destroying communion with him.
Surely thou hast cast off feare, and restrainest prayer before God.
5 It's your sins that are doing the talking, and you are choosing deceptive words.
For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.
6 Your own mouth is condemning you, not me; your own lips are testifying against you.
Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee.
7 Were you the very first person to be born? Were you born before the hills were created?
Art thou the first man, that was borne? and wast thou made before the hils?
8 Were you there listening in God's council? Does wisdom only belong to you?
Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome to thee?
9 What do you know that we don't? What do you understand that we don't?
What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs?
10 We have among us old, gray-haired people much older than your father!
With vs are both auncient and very aged men, farre older then thy father.
11 Are the comforts God provides too little for you? Are God's gentle words not enough for you?
Seeme the consolations of God small vnto thee? is this thing strange vnto thee?
12 Why do you let yourself be carried away by your emotions?
Why doeth thine heart take thee away, and what doe thine eyes meane,
13 Why do your eyes flash in anger that you turn against God and let yourself speak this way?
That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth?
14 Who can say they are clean? Which human being can say that they do what is right?
What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust?
15 Look, God doesn't even trust his angels—even the heavenly beings are not pure in his sight!
Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.
16 How much less pure are those who are unclean and corrupt, drinking in sin like water!
How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
17 If you are ready to listen to me, I will show you. I will explain my insights.
I will tell thee: heare me, and I will declare that which I haue seene:
18 This is what wise men have said, confirmed by their ancestors,
Which wise men haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret:
19 those who to whom alone the land was given before foreigners ever were there.
To whome alone the land was giuen and no stranger passed through them.
20 The wicked writhe in pain all their lives, through all the years these oppressors survive.
The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant.
21 Terrifying sounds fill their ears; even when they think they're safe, the destroyer will attack them.
A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.
22 They don't believe they will escape the darkness—they know a sword is waiting for them.
He beleeueth not to returne out of darknesse: for he seeth the sworde before him.
23 They wander around looking for food, asking ‘Where is it?’ They know that their day of darkness is close at hand.
He wandreth to and from for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.
24 Misery and torment overwhelm them like a king preparing for battle.
Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell.
25 They shake their fists in God's face, defiantly challenging the Almighty,
For he hath stretched out his hand against GOD, and made him selfe strong against the Almightie.
26 insolently attacking him with their shields.
Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde.
27 They have become fat in their rebellion, their bellies bloated with fat.
Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke.
28 But their cities will become desolate; they will live in abandoned houses that are crumbling into ruins.
Though he dwell in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes,
29 They will lose their riches, their wealth will not endure, their possessions will not spread over the earth.
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth.
30 They will not escape from the darkness. Like a tree whose shoots are burned up in a forest fire, the breath of God will blow him away.
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 They should not trust in things that are worthless, for their reward will be worthless.
He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change.
32 This will be paid in full before their time has come. They are like tree branches that wither,
His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day.
33 like vines that lose their unripe grapes, or olive trees that lose their flowers.
God shall destroy him as the vine her sower grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre.
34 For those who reject God are barren, and fire will burn up the homes of those who love bribes.
For the congregation of the hypocrite shalbe desolate, and fire shall deuoure the houses of bribes.
35 They plan trouble and produce evil, giving birth to deception.”
For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite.
