< Job 15 >
1 and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:
2 wise to answer knowledge spirit: breath and to fill east belly: abdomen his
Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
3 to rebuke in/on/with word: speaking not be useful and speech not to gain in/on/with them
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4 also you(m. s.) to break fear and to dimish meditation to/for face: before God
Yea, thou doest away with fear, and impairest devotion before God.
5 for to teach/learn iniquity: crime your lip your and to choose tongue prudent
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6 be wicked you lip your and not I and lips your to answer in/on/with you
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
7 first man to beget and to/for face: before hill to twist: give birth
Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
8 in/on/with counsel god to hear: hear and to dimish to(wards) you wisdom
Dost thou hearken in the council of God? And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
9 what? to know and not to know to understand and not with us he/she/it
What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
10 also be gray also aged in/on/with us mighty from father your day: old
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.
11 little from you consolation God and word to/for softly with you
Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word that dealeth gently with thee?
12 what? to take: take you heart your and what? to flash [emph?] eye your
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes wink?
13 for to return: turn back to(wards) God spirit your and to come out: speak from lip your speech
That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth.
14 what? human for to clean and for to justify to beget woman
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a 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
Behold, He putteth no trust in His holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.
16 also for to abhor and to corrupt man to drink like/as water injustice
How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!
17 to explain you to hear: hear to/for me and this to see and to recount
I will tell thee, hear thou me; and that which I have seen I will declare —
18 which wise to tell and not to hide from father their
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it;
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
Unto whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20 all day wicked he/she/it to twist: writh in pain and number year to treasure to/for ruthless
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
21 voice: sound dread in/on/with ear his in/on/with peace: well-being to ruin to come (in): come him
A sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22 not be faithful to return: return from darkness (and to watch *Q(k)*) he/she/it to(wards) sword
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of 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 wandereth abroad for bread: 'Where is it?' He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 to terrify him distress and distress to prevail him like/as king ready to/for battle
Distress and anguish overwhelm him; they prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25 for to stretch to(wards) God hand his and to(wards) Almighty to prevail
Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, and behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;
26 to run: run to(wards) him in/on/with neck in/on/with thickness back/rim/brow shield his
He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers.
27 for to cover face his in/on/with fat his and to make excess fat upon loin
Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his loins;
28 and to dwell city to hide house: home not to dwell to/for them which be ready to/for heap
And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man would inhabit, which were ready to become heaps.
29 not to enrich and not to arise: establish strength: rich his and not to stretch to/for land: country/planet gain their
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their produce bend to the earth.
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 shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of His mouth shall he go 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 trust in vanity, deceiving himself; for vanity shall be his recompense.
32 in/on/with not day his to fill and branch his not be fresh
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be leafy.
33 to injure like/as vine unripe grape his and to throw like/as olive flower his
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
34 for congregation profane solitary and fire to eat tent bribe
For the company of the godless shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
35 to conceive trouble and to beget evil: wickedness and belly: womb their to establish: prepare deceit
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.