Job 15
1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and saide,
And Eliphaz the Temanite answers and says:
2 Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde, and fill his bellie with the East winde?
“Does a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill his belly [with] an east wind?
3 Shall he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable?
To reason with a word not useful? And speeches—no profit in them?
4 Surely thou hast cast off feare, and restrainest prayer before God.
Indeed, you make reverence void, and diminish meditation before God.
5 For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.
For your mouth teaches your iniquity, And you choose the tongue of the cunning.
6 Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee.
Your mouth declares you wicked, and not I, And your lips testify against you.
7 Art thou the first man, that was borne? and wast thou made before the hils?
Are you the first man born? And were you formed before the heights?
8 Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome to thee?
Do you hear of the secret counsel of God? And withdraw wisdom to you?
9 What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs?
What have you known, and we do not know? [What] do you understand, and it is not with us?
10 With vs are both auncient and very aged men, farre older then thy father.
Both the gray-headed And the very aged [are] among us—Greater than your father [in] days.
11 Seeme the consolations of God small vnto thee? is this thing strange vnto thee?
Are the comforts of God too few for you? And a gentle word [is] with you,
12 Why doeth thine heart take thee away, and what doe thine eyes meane,
Why does your heart take you away? And why are your eyes high?
13 That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth?
Do you turn your spirit against God? And have brought out words from your mouth:
14 What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust?
What [is] man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
15 Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.
Behold, He puts no credence in His holy ones, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
16 How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
Also—surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking perverseness as water.
17 I will tell thee: heare me, and I will declare that which I haue seene:
I show you—listen to me—And this I have seen and declare,
18 Which wise men haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret:
Which the wise declare—And have not hid—from their fathers.
19 To whome alone the land was giuen and no stranger passed through them.
To them alone was the land given, And a stranger did not pass over into their midst:
20 The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant.
All [the] days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
21 A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.
A fearful voice [is] in his ears, In peace a destroyer comes to him.
22 He beleeueth not to returne out of darknesse: for he seeth the sworde before him.
He does not believe to return from darkness, And he watches for the sword.
23 He wandreth to and from for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.
He is wandering for bread: Where [is] it? He has known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
24 Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell.
Adversity and distress terrify him, They prevail over him as a king ready for a boaster.
25 For he hath stretched out his hand against GOD, and made him selfe strong against the Almightie.
For he stretched out his hand against God, And against the Mighty he makes himself mighty.
26 Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde.
He runs to Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.
27 Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke.
For he has covered his face with his fat, And makes vigor over [his] confidence.
28 Though he dwell in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes,
And he inhabits cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth.
He is not rich, nor does his wealth rise, Nor does he stretch out their continuance on earth.
30 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.
He does not turn aside from darkness, A flame dries up his tender branch, And he turns aside at the breath of His mouth!
31 He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change.
Do not let him put credence in vanity, He has been deceived, For vanity is his exchange.
32 His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day.
It is not completed in his day, And his bending branch is not green.
33 God shall destroy him as the vine her sower grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre.
He shakes off his unripe fruit as a vine, And casts off his blossom as an olive.
34 For the congregation of the hypocrite shalbe desolate, and fire shall deuoure the houses of bribes.
For the company of the profane [is] barren, And fire has consumed tents of bribery.
35 For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite.
To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart prepares deceit.”
