< Job 15 >

1 And he answered Eliphaz the Temanite and he said.
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2 ¿ A wise [person] does he answer knowledge of wind so may he fill? east wind belly his.
“Should a wise man answer with useless knowledge and fill himself with the east wind?
3 Does he argue? with a word [which] not it is of use and words [which] not anyone profits by them.
Should he reason with unprofitable talk or with speeches with which he can do no good?
4 Also you you annul fear so you may diminish meditation before God.
Indeed, you diminish respect for God; you obstruct devotion to him,
5 For it teaches iniquity your mouth your so you may choose [the] tongue of crafty [people].
for your iniquity teaches your mouth; you choose to have the tongue of a crafty man.
6 It condemns as guilty you own mouth your and not I and own lips your they testify against you.
Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; indeed, your own lips testify against you.
7 ¿ First human being were you born and before [the] hills were you brought forth?
Are you the first man that was born? Were you brought into existence before the hills?
8 ¿ In [the] council of God do you listen and you may restrain? to yourself wisdom.
Have you heard the secret knowledge of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 What? do you know and not we know do you understand? and not [is] with us it.
What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not also in us?
10 Both [the] gray haired as well as [the] aged [are] among us [those] old more than father your days.
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men who are much older than your father.
11 ¿ [too] little For you [are] [the] consolations of God and a word to gentleness with you.
Are the consolations of God too small for you, the words that are gentle toward you?
12 Why? does it carry away you heart your and why? do they flash! eyes your.
Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
13 That you will turn against God spirit your and you will bring out from mouth your words.
so that you turn your spirit against God and bring out such words from your mouth?
14 What? [is] a person that he will be pure and that he will be righteous [one] born of a woman.
What is man that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman that he should be righteous?
15 There! (in holy [ones] his *Q(K)*) not he trusts and [the] heavens not they are pure in view his.
See, God puts no trust even in his holy ones; indeed, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
16 Indeed? for [one who] is abhorrent and [one who] is corrupt a person [who] drinks like water unrighteousness.
how much less clean is one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
17 I will tell you listen to me and what I have seen and I will recount.
I will show you; listen to me; I will announce to you the things I have seen,
18 [that] which Wise [people] they have told and not they have hidden from ancestors their.
the things that wise men have passed down from their fathers, the things that their ancestors did not hide.
19 To them to alone them it was given the land and not he passed a stranger in midst their.
These were their ancestors, to whom alone the land was given, and among whom no stranger ever passed.
20 All [the] days of a wicked [person] he [is] writhing in pain and [the] number of years [which] they have been stored up for ruthless [person].
The wicked man twists in pain all his days, the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor to suffer.
21 [the] sound of Dread [is] in ears his in peace a destroyer he will come to him.
A sound of terrors is in his ears; while he is in prosperity, the destroyer will come upon him.
22 Not he believes to return from darkness (and [is] watched *Q(k)*) he to [the] sword.
He does not think that he will return out of darkness; the sword waits for him.
23 [is] wandering He for food where? he knows - that [has been] prepared in hand his a day of darkness.
He goes to various places for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
24 They terrify him anxiety and distress it overpowers him like a king - ready for battle.
Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.
25 For he has stretched out against God hand his and to [the] Almighty he behaves proudly.
Because he has reached out with his hand against God and has behaved proudly against the Almighty,
26 He runs against him with a neck with [the] thickness of [the] bosses of shields his.
this wicked man runs at God with a stiff neck, with a thick shield.
27 For he has covered face his with fat his and he has made fat on loins.
This is true, even though he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat on his loins,
28 And he dwelt - cities destroyed houses [which] not people will dwell themselves which they are destined for heaps of stones.
and has lived in desolate cities; in houses which no man inhabits now and which were ready to become heaps.
29 Not he will be rich and not it will endure wealth his and not it will stretch out to the land property their.
He will not be rich; his wealth will not last and his possessions will not spread over the land.
30 Not he will depart - from darkness young shoot[s] his it will dry up a flame so he may depart by [the] breath of mouth his.
He will not depart out of darkness; a flame will dry up his stalks; at the breath of God's mouth he will go away.
31 May not he trust (in worthlessness *Q(K)*) he has been led astray for worthlessness it will be recompense his.
Let him not trust in useless things, deceiving himself; for uselessness will be his reward.
32 On not day his it will be completed and palm branch his not it will grow luxuriant.
It will happen before his time should come to die; his branch will not be green.
33 He will wrong like vine unripe grape[s] his and he will shed like olive tree blossom his.
He will drop his unripe grapes like a grapevine; he will cast off his flowers like the olive tree.
34 For a company of [the] godless [is] barren and fire it consumes [the] tents of a bribe.
For the company of godless people will be barren; fire will consume their tents of bribery.
35 They conceive trouble and they give birth to wickedness and belly their it prepares deceit.
They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity; their womb conceives deceit.”

< Job 15 >