Job 15

¹Then Eliphaz the Thæmanite answered and said,

¹Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,

²Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,

³reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit?

⁴Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?

⁴Have not you moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?

⁵Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.

⁵You are guilty by the words of your mouth, neither have you discerned the words of the mighty.

⁶Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: and thy lips shall testify against thee.

⁶Let your own mouth, and not me, reprove you: and your lips shall testify against you.

⁷What! art thou the first man that was born? or wert thou established before the hills?

⁷What! are you the first man that was born? or were you established before the hills?

⁸Or hast thou heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used thee as [his] counsellor? and has wisdom come [only] to thee?

⁸Or have you heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used you as [his] counsellor? and has wisdom come [only] to you?

⁹For what knowest thou, thatwe know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also?

⁹For what know you, that, we know not? or what understand you, which we do not also?

¹⁰Truly among us [are] both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than thy father.

¹⁰Truly among us [are] both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than your father.

¹¹Thou hast been scourged for [but] few of thy sins: thou hast spoken haughtily [and] extravagantly.

¹¹You have been scourged for [but] few of your sins: you have spoken haughtily [and] extravagantly.

¹²What has thine heart dared? or what have thine eyes [aimed at],

¹²What has your heart dared? or what have your eyes [aimed at],

¹³that thou hast vented [thy] rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from [thy] mouth?

¹³that you have vented [your] rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from [your] mouth?

¹⁴For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? or, [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just?

¹⁵Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.

¹⁶Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

¹⁷But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have seen;

¹⁷But I will tell you, listen to me; I will tell you now what I have seen;

¹⁸things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.

¹⁹To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them.

²⁰All the life of the ungodly [is spent] in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.

²¹And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.

²²Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.

²³And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcase: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.

²³And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.

²⁴Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank.

²⁵For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.

²⁶And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.

²⁷For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.

²⁸And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.

²⁹Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.

³⁰Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.

³¹Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.

³²His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.

³³And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.

³⁴For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.

³⁵And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.

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