Job 15

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,	1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite spoke and said:
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?	2 Should a wise man answer with airy opinions, or puff himself up with wind?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?	3 Should he argue in speech which does not avail, and in words which are to no profit?
4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.	4 You in fact do away with piety, and you lessen devotion toward God,
5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.	5 Because your wickedness instructs your mouth, and you choose to speak like the crafty.
6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.	6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; you own lips refute you.
7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?	7 Are you indeed the first-born of mankind, or were you brought forth before the hills?
8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?	8 Are you privy to the counsels of God, and do you restrict wisdom to yourself?
9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?	9 What do you know that we do not know? What intelligence have you which we have not?
10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.	10 There are gray-haired old men among us more advanced in years than your father.
11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?	11 Are the consolations of God not enough for you, and speech that deals gently with you?
12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,	12 Why do your notions carry you away, and why do your eyes blink,
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?	13 So that you turn your anger against God and let such words escape your mouth!
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?	14 What is a man that he should be blameless, one born of woman that he should be righteous?
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.	15 If in his holy ones God places no confidence, and if the heavens are not clean in his sight,
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?	16 How much less so is the abominable, the corrupt: man, who drinks in iniquity like water!
17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;	17 I will show you, if you listen to me; what I have seen I will tell--
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:	18 What wise men relate and have not contradicted since the days of their fathers,
19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.	19 To whom alone the land was given, when no foreigner moved among them.
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.	20 The wicked man is in torment all his days, and limited years are in store for the tyrant;
21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.	21 The sound of terrors is in his ears; when all is prosperous, the spoiler comes upon him.
22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.	22 He despairs of escaping the darkness, and looks ever 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 A wanderer, food for the vultures, he knows that his destruction is imminent.
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.	24 By day the darkness fills him with dread; distress and anguish overpower him.
25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.	25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God and bade defiance to the Almighty,
26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:	26 One shall rush sternly upon him with the stout bosses of his shield, like a king prepared for the charge.
27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.	27 Because he has blinded himself with his crassness, padding his loins with fat,
28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.	28 He shall dwell in ruinous cities, in houses that are deserted, That are crumbling into clay
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.	29 with no shadow to lengthen over the ground. He shall not be rich, and his possessions shall not endure;
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 A flame shall wither him up in his early growth, and with the wind his blossoms shall disappear.
31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.	31 for vain shall be his bartering.
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.	32 His stalk shall wither before its time, and his branches shall be green no more.
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.	33 He shall be like a vine that sheds its grapes unripened, and like an olive tree casting off its bloom.
34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.	34 For the breed of the impious shall be sterile, and fire shall consume the tents of extortioners.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.	35 They conceive malice and bring forth emptiness; they give birth to failure.