Job 15

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,	1 Eliphaz of Teman spoke next. He said:
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?	2 Does anyone wise respond with windy arguments, or feed on an east wind?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?	3 Or make a defence with ineffectual words and speeches good for nothing?
4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.	4 You do worse: you suppress reverence, you discredit discussion before God.
5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.	5 Your very fault incites you to speak like this, hence you adopt this language of cunning.
6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.	6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips bear witness against you.
7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?	7 Are you the first-born of the human race, brought into the world before the hills?
8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?	8 Have you been a listener at God's council, or established a monopoly of wisdom?
9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?	9 What knowledge do you have that we have not, what understanding that is not ours too?
10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.	10 One of us is an old, grey-headed man loaded with more years than your father!
11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?	11 Can you ignore these divine consolations and the moderate tone of our words?
12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,	12 How passion carries you away! And how you rol your eyes,
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?	13 when you vent your anger on God and speeches come tripping off your tongue!
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?	14 How can anyone be pure, anyone born of woman be upright?
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.	15 God cannot rely even on his holy ones, to him, even the heavens seem impure.
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?	16 How much more, this hateful, corrupt thing, humanity, which soaks up wickedness like water!
17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;	17 Listen to me, I have a lesson for you: I am going to impart my own experience
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:	18 and the tradition of the sages who have remained faithful to their ancestors,
19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.	19 to whom alone the land was given -- no foreigner included among them.
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.	20 The life of the wicked is unceasing torment, the years al otted to the tyrant are numbered.
21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.	21 A cry of panic echoes in his ear; when al is peace, his destroyer swoops down on him.
22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.	22 No more can he count on escaping from the dark, but knows that he is destined for the sword,
23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.	23 marked down as meat for the vulture. He knows that his ruin is at hand.
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.	24 The hour of darkness terrifies him, distress and anguish assail him as when a king is poised for theassault.
25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.	25 He raised his hand against God, boldly he defied Shaddai!
26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:	26 Head lowered, he charged him, with his massively bossed shield.
27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.	27 His face had grown ful and fat, and his thighs too heavy with flesh.
28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.	28 He had occupied the towns he had destroyed, with their uninhabited houses about to fal into ruins;
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.	29 but no great profit to him, his luck will not hold, he wil cast his shadow over the country no longer,
30 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.	30 (he wil not escape the dark). A flame wil scorch his young shoots, the wind will carry off his blossom.
31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.	31 Let him not trust in his great height or delusion will be his.
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.	32 His palm trees wil wither before their time and his branches never again be green.
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.	33 Like the vine, he wil shake off his unripe fruit, like the olive tree, shed his blossom.
34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.	34 Yes, sterile is the spawn of the sinner, and fire consumes the tents of the venal.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.	35 Whoever conceives malice, breeds disaster, bears as offspring only a false hope.