< Job 15 >

1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: —
and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
2 Doth a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill [with] an east wind his belly?
wise to answer knowledge spirit: breath and to fill east belly: abdomen his
3 To reason with a word not useful? And speeches — no profit in them?
to rebuke in/on/with word: speaking not be useful and speech not to gain in/on/with them
4 Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
also you(m. s.) to break fear and to dimish meditation to/for face: before God
5 For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.
for to teach/learn iniquity: crime your lip your and to choose tongue prudent
6 Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.
be wicked you lip your and not I and lips your to answer in/on/with you
7 The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?
first man to beget and to/for face: before hill to twist: give birth
8 Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?
in/on/with counsel god to hear: hear and to dimish to(wards) you wisdom
9 What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou — and it is not with us?
what? to know and not to know to understand and not with us he/she/it
10 Both the gray-headed And the very aged [are] among us — Greater than thy father [in] days.
also be gray also aged in/on/with us mighty from father your day: old
11 Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word [is] with thee,
little from you consolation God and word to/for softly with you
12 What — doth thine heart take thee away? And what — are thine eyes high?
what? to take: take you heart your and what? to flash [emph?] eye your
13 For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:
for to return: turn back to(wards) God spirit your and to come out: speak from lip your speech
14 What [is] man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
what? human for to clean and for to justify to beget woman
15 Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
look! (in/on/with holy his *Q(K)*) not be faithful and heaven not be clean in/on/with eye: seeing his
16 Also — surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
also for to abhor and to corrupt man to drink like/as water injustice
17 I shew thee — hearken to me — And this I have seen and declare:
to explain you to hear: hear to/for me and this to see and to recount
18 Which the wise declare — And have not hid — from their fathers.
which wise to tell and not to hide from father their
19 To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:
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
20 'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
all day wicked he/she/it to twist: writh in pain and number year to treasure to/for ruthless
21 A fearful voice [is] in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.
voice: sound dread in/on/with ear his in/on/with peace: well-being to ruin to come (in): come him
22 He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched [is] he for the sword.
not be faithful to return: return from darkness (and to watch *Q(k)*) he/she/it to(wards) sword
23 He is wandering for bread — 'Where [is] it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
to wander he/she/it to/for food: bread where? to know for to establish: prepare in/on/with hand his day darkness
24 Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.
to terrify him distress and distress to prevail him like/as king ready to/for battle
25 For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.
for to stretch to(wards) God hand his and to(wards) Almighty to prevail
26 He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.
to run: run to(wards) him in/on/with neck in/on/with thickness back/rim/brow shield his
27 For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over [his] confidence.
for to cover face his in/on/with fat his and to make excess fat upon loin
28 And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.
and to dwell city to hide house: home not to dwell to/for them which be ready to/for heap
29 He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.
not to enrich and not to arise: establish strength: rich his and not to stretch to/for land: country/planet gain their
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!
not to turn aside: depart from darkness shoot his to wither flame and to turn aside: depart in/on/with spirit: breath lip his
31 Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.
not be faithful (in/on/with vanity: vain *Q(K)*) to go astray for vanity: vain to be exchange his
32 Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.
in/on/with not day his to fill and branch his not be fresh
33 He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
to injure like/as vine unripe grape his and to throw like/as olive flower his
34 For the company of the profane [is] gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.
for congregation profane solitary and fire to eat tent bribe
35 To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.
to conceive trouble and to beget evil: wickedness and belly: womb their to establish: prepare deceit

< Job 15 >