Job 15
1 and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2 wise to answer knowledge spirit: breath and to fill east belly: abdomen his
“Should a wise man answer with useless knowledge and fill himself 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 with which he can do no good?
4 also you(m. s.) to break fear and to dimish meditation to/for face: before God
Indeed, you diminish respect for God; you obstruct devotion to him,
5 for to teach/learn iniquity: crime your lip your and to choose tongue prudent
for your iniquity teaches your mouth; you choose to have the tongue of a crafty man.
6 be wicked you lip your and not I and lips your to answer in/on/with you
Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; indeed, your own lips testify against you.
7 first man to beget and to/for face: before hill to twist: give birth
Are you the first man that was born? Were you brought into existence before the hills?
8 in/on/with counsel god to hear: hear and to dimish to(wards) you wisdom
Have you heard the secret knowledge of God? Do you 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 know? What do you understand that is not also 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 who are much older than your father.
11 little from you consolation God and word to/for softly with you
Are the consolations of God too small for you, the words that are gentle toward you?
12 what? to take: take you heart your and what? to flash [emph?] eye your
Why does your heart carry you away? 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
so that you turn your spirit against God and bring out 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 clean? What is he who 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
See, God puts no trust even in his holy ones; indeed, 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 clean is one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
17 to explain you to hear: hear to/for me and this to see and to recount
I will show you; listen to me; I will announce to you the things I have seen,
18 which wise to tell and not to hide from father their
the things that wise men have passed down from their fathers, the things that their ancestors did not hide.
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
These were their ancestors, to whom alone the land was given, and among whom no stranger ever passed.
20 all day wicked he/she/it to twist: writh in pain and number year to treasure to/for ruthless
The wicked man twists in pain all his days, the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor to suffer.
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; while he is in prosperity, the destroyer will come upon him.
22 not be faithful to return: return from darkness (and to watch *Q(k)*) he/she/it to(wards) sword
He does not think that he will return out of darkness; the sword waits for him.
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 goes to various places for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that 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 make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.
25 for to stretch to(wards) God hand his and to(wards) Almighty to prevail
Because he has reached out with his hand against God and has behaved proudly against the Almighty,
26 to run: run to(wards) him in/on/with neck in/on/with thickness back/rim/brow shield his
this wicked man runs at God with a stiff neck, with a thick shield.
27 for to cover face his in/on/with fat his and to make excess fat upon loin
This is true, even though he has covered his face with his fat and gathered 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 has lived in desolate cities; in houses which no man inhabits now and 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 will not be rich; his wealth will not last and his possessions will not spread over 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 depart out of darkness; a flame will dry up his stalks; at the breath of God's mouth he will 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 useless things, deceiving himself; for uselessness will be his reward.
32 in/on/with not day his to fill and branch his not be fresh
It will happen before his time should come to die; his branch will not be green.
33 to injure like/as vine unripe grape his and to throw like/as olive flower his
He will drop his unripe grapes like a grapevine; he will cast off his flowers like the olive tree.
34 for congregation profane solitary and fire to eat tent bribe
For the company of godless people will be barren; fire will consume their tents of bribery.
35 to conceive trouble and to beget evil: wickedness and belly: womb their to establish: prepare deceit
They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity; their womb conceives deceit.”
