Job 15
1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: —
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and saide,
2 Doth a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill [with] an east wind his belly?
Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde, and fill his bellie with the East winde?
3 To reason with a word not useful? And speeches — no profit in them?
Shall he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable?
4 Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
Surely thou hast cast off feare, and restrainest prayer before God.
5 For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.
For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.
6 Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.
Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee.
7 The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?
Art thou the first man, that was borne? and wast thou made before the hils?
8 Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?
Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome to thee?
9 What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou — and it is not with us?
What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs?
10 Both the gray-headed And the very aged [are] among us — Greater than thy father [in] days.
With vs are both auncient and very aged men, farre older then thy father.
11 Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word [is] with thee,
Seeme the consolations of God small vnto thee? is this thing strange vnto thee?
12 What — doth thine heart take thee away? And what — are thine eyes high?
Why doeth thine heart take thee away, and what doe thine eyes meane,
13 For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:
That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth?
14 What [is] man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust?
15 Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.
16 Also — surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
17 I shew thee — hearken to me — And this I have seen and declare:
I will tell thee: heare me, and I will declare that which I haue seene:
18 Which the wise declare — And have not hid — from their fathers.
Which wise men haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret:
19 To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:
To whome alone the land was giuen and no stranger passed through them.
20 'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant.
21 A fearful voice [is] in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.
A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.
22 He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched [is] he for the sword.
He beleeueth not to returne out of darknesse: for he seeth the sworde before him.
23 He is wandering for bread — 'Where [is] it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
He wandreth to and from for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.
24 Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.
Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell.
25 For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.
For he hath stretched out his hand against GOD, and made him selfe strong against the Almightie.
26 He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.
Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde.
27 For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over [his] confidence.
Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke.
28 And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.
Though he dwell in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes,
29 He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth.
30 He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!
He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth.
31 Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.
He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change.
32 Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.
His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day.
33 He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
God shall destroy him as the vine her sower grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre.
34 For the company of the profane [is] gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.
For the congregation of the hypocrite shalbe desolate, and fire shall deuoure the houses of bribes.
35 To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.
For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite.
