< Job 15 >
1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answers and says:
and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
2 “Does a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill his belly [with] an east wind?
wise to answer knowledge spirit: breath and to fill east belly: abdomen his
3 To reason with a word not useful? And speeches—no profit in them?
to rebuke in/on/with word: speaking not be useful and speech not to gain in/on/with them
4 Indeed, you make reverence void, and diminish meditation before God.
also you(m. s.) to break fear and to dimish meditation to/for face: before God
5 For your mouth teaches your iniquity, And you choose the tongue of the cunning.
for to teach/learn iniquity: crime your lip your and to choose tongue prudent
6 Your mouth declares you wicked, and not I, And your lips testify against you.
be wicked you lip your and not I and lips your to answer in/on/with you
7 Are you the first man born? And were you formed before the heights?
first man to beget and to/for face: before hill to twist: give birth
8 Do you hear of the secret counsel of God? And withdraw wisdom to you?
in/on/with counsel god to hear: hear and to dimish to(wards) you wisdom
9 What have you known, and we do not know? [What] do you understand, and it is not with us?
what? to know and not to know to understand and not with us he/she/it
10 Both the gray-headed And the very aged [are] among us—Greater than your father [in] days.
also be gray also aged in/on/with us mighty from father your day: old
11 Are the comforts of God too few for you? And a gentle word [is] with you,
little from you consolation God and word to/for softly with you
12 Why does your heart take you away? And why are your eyes high?
what? to take: take you heart your and what? to flash [emph?] eye your
13 Do you turn your spirit against God? And have brought out words from your mouth:
for to return: turn back to(wards) God spirit your and to come out: speak from lip your speech
14 What [is] man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
what? human for to clean and for to justify to beget woman
15 Behold, He puts no credence in His holy ones, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
look! (in/on/with holy his *Q(K)*) not be faithful and heaven not be clean in/on/with eye: seeing his
16 Also—surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking perverseness as water.
also for to abhor and to corrupt man to drink like/as water injustice
17 I show you—listen to me—And this I have seen and declare,
to explain you to hear: hear to/for me and this to see and to recount
18 Which the wise declare—And have not hid—from their fathers.
which wise to tell and not to hide from father their
19 To them alone was the land given, And a stranger did not pass over into their midst:
to/for them to/for alone them to give: give [the] land: country/planet and not to pass be a stranger in/on/with midst their
20 All [the] days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
all day wicked he/she/it to twist: writh in pain and number year to treasure to/for ruthless
21 A fearful voice [is] in his ears, In peace a destroyer comes to him.
voice: sound dread in/on/with ear his in/on/with peace: well-being to ruin to come (in): come him
22 He does not believe to return from darkness, And he watches for the sword.
not be faithful to return: return from darkness (and to watch *Q(k)*) he/she/it to(wards) sword
23 He is wandering for bread: Where [is] it? He has known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
to wander he/she/it to/for food: bread where? to know for to establish: prepare in/on/with hand his day darkness
24 Adversity and distress terrify him, They prevail over him as a king ready for a boaster.
to terrify him distress and distress to prevail him like/as king ready to/for battle
25 For he stretched out his hand against God, And against the Mighty he makes himself mighty.
for to stretch to(wards) God hand his and to(wards) Almighty to prevail
26 He runs to Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.
to run: run to(wards) him in/on/with neck in/on/with thickness back/rim/brow shield his
27 For he has covered his face with his fat, And makes vigor over [his] confidence.
for to cover face his in/on/with fat his and to make excess fat upon loin
28 And he inhabits cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.
and to dwell city to hide house: home not to dwell to/for them which be ready to/for heap
29 He is not rich, nor does his wealth rise, Nor does he stretch out their continuance on earth.
not to enrich and not to arise: establish strength: rich his and not to stretch to/for land: country/planet gain their
30 He does not turn aside from darkness, A flame dries up his tender branch, And he turns aside at the breath of His mouth!
not to turn aside: depart from darkness shoot his to wither flame and to turn aside: depart in/on/with spirit: breath lip his
31 Do not let him put credence in vanity, He has been deceived, For vanity is his exchange.
not be faithful (in/on/with vanity: vain *Q(K)*) to go astray for vanity: vain to be exchange his
32 It is not completed in his day, And his bending branch is not green.
in/on/with not day his to fill and branch his not be fresh
33 He shakes off his unripe fruit as a vine, And casts off his blossom as an olive.
to injure like/as vine unripe grape his and to throw like/as olive flower his
34 For the company of the profane [is] barren, And fire has consumed tents of bribery.
for congregation profane solitary and fire to eat tent bribe
35 To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart prepares deceit.”
to conceive trouble and to beget evil: wickedness and belly: womb their to establish: prepare deceit