Job 15
1 and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 wise to answer knowledge spirit: breath and to fill east belly: abdomen his
“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
3 to rebuke in/on/with word: speaking not be useful and speech not to gain in/on/with them
Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?
4 also you(m. s.) to break fear and to dimish meditation to/for face: before God
But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
5 for to teach/learn iniquity: crime your lip your and to choose tongue prudent
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
6 be wicked you lip your and not I and lips your to answer in/on/with you
Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
7 first man to beget and to/for face: before hill to twist: give birth
Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
8 in/on/with counsel god to hear: hear and to dimish to(wards) you wisdom
Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
9 what? to know and not to know to understand and not with us he/she/it
What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
10 also be gray also aged in/on/with us mighty from father your day: old
Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father.
11 little from you consolation God and word to/for softly with you
Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?
12 what? to take: take you heart your and what? to flash [emph?] eye your
Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
13 for to return: turn back to(wards) God spirit your and to come out: speak from lip your speech
as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?
14 what? human for to clean and for to justify to beget woman
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
15 look! (in/on/with holy his *Q(K)*) not be faithful and heaven not be clean in/on/with eye: seeing his
If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
16 also for to abhor and to corrupt man to drink like/as water injustice
how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
17 to explain you to hear: hear to/for me and this to see and to recount
Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,
18 which wise to tell and not to hide from father their
what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,
19 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
to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.
20 all day wicked he/she/it to twist: writh in pain and number year to treasure to/for ruthless
A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
21 voice: sound dread in/on/with ear his in/on/with peace: well-being to ruin to come (in): come him
Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.
22 not be faithful to return: return from darkness (and to watch *Q(k)*) he/she/it to(wards) sword
He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.
23 to wander he/she/it to/for food: bread where? to know for to establish: prepare in/on/with hand his day darkness
He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
24 to terrify him distress and distress to prevail him like/as king ready to/for battle
Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.
25 for to stretch to(wards) God hand his and to(wards) Almighty to prevail
For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,
26 to run: run to(wards) him in/on/with neck in/on/with thickness back/rim/brow shield his
rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.
27 for to cover face his in/on/with fat his and to make excess fat upon loin
Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
28 and to dwell city to hide house: home not to dwell to/for them which be ready to/for heap
he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.
29 not to enrich and not to arise: establish strength: rich his and not to stretch to/for land: country/planet gain their
He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.
30 not to turn aside: depart from darkness shoot his to wither flame and to turn aside: depart in/on/with spirit: breath lip his
He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
31 not be faithful (in/on/with vanity: vain *Q(K)*) to go astray for vanity: vain to be exchange his
Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
32 in/on/with not day his to fill and branch his not be fresh
It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.
33 to injure like/as vine unripe grape his and to throw like/as olive flower his
He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
34 for congregation profane solitary and fire to eat tent bribe
For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
35 to conceive trouble and to beget evil: wickedness and belly: womb their to establish: prepare deceit
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
