Job 15

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite spoke and said:	1 And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said:
2 Should a wise man answer with airy opinions, or puff himself up with wind?	2 Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?
3 Should he argue in speech which does not avail, and in words which are to no profit?	3 Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee.
4 You in fact do away with piety, and you lessen devotion toward God,	4 As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.
5 Because your wickedness instructs your mouth, and you choose to speak like the crafty.	5 For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.
6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; you own lips refute you.	6 Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips shall answer thee.
7 Are you indeed the first-born of mankind, or were you brought forth before the hills?	7 Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills ?
8 Are you privy to the counsels of God, and do you restrict wisdom to yourself?	8 Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee?
9 What do you know that we do not know? What intelligence have you which we have not?	9 What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou understand that we know not?
10 There are gray-haired old men among us more advanced in years than your father.	10 There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy fathers.
11 Are the consolations of God not enough for you, and speech that deals gently with you?	11 Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.
12 Why do your notions carry you away, and why do your eyes blink,	12 Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with thy eyes, as if they were thinking great things ?
13 So that you turn your anger against God and let such words escape your mouth!	13 Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth ?
14 What is a man that he should be blameless, one born of woman that he should be righteous?	14 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?
15 If in his holy ones God places no confidence, and if the heavens are not clean in his sight,	15 Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.
16 How much less so is the abominable, the corrupt: man, who drinks in iniquity like water!	16 How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?
17 I will show you, if you listen to me; what I have seen I will tell--	17 I will shew thee, hear me : and I mill tell thee what I have seen.
18 What wise men relate and have not contradicted since the days of their fathers,	18 Wise men confess and hide not their fathers.
19 To whom alone the land was given, when no foreigner moved among them.	19 To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger hath passed among them.
20 The wicked man is in torment all his days, and limited years are in store for the tyrant;	20 The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.
21 The sound of terrors is in his ears; when all is prosperous, the spoiler comes upon him.	21 The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.
22 He despairs of escaping the darkness, and looks ever for the sword;	22 He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.
23 A wanderer, food for the vultures, he knows that his destruction is imminent.	23 When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 By day the darkness fills him with dread; distress and anguish overpower him.	24 Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him, as a king that is prepared for the battle.
25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God and bade defiance to the Almighty,	25 For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath strengthened himself against the Almighty.
26 One shall rush sternly upon him with the stout bosses of his shield, like a king prepared for the charge.	26 He hath run against him with his neck raised up, and is armed with a fat neck.
27 Because he has blinded himself with his crassness, padding his loins with fat,	27 Fatness hath covered his face, and the fat hangeth down on his sides.
28 He shall dwell in ruinous cities, in houses that are deserted, That are crumbling into clay	28 He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps.
29 with no shadow to lengthen over the ground. He shall not be rich, and his possessions shall not endure;	29 He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he push his root in the earth.
30 A flame shall wither him up in his early growth, and with the wind his blossoms shall disappear.	30 He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own month.
31 for vain shall be his bartering.	31 He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may be redeemed with any price.
32 His stalk shall wither before its time, and his branches shall be green no more.	32 Before his days be full he shall perish: and his hands shall wither away.
33 He shall be like a vine that sheds its grapes unripened, and like an olive tree casting off its bloom.	33 He shall be blasted as a vine when its grapes are in the first flower, and as an olive tree that casteth its flower.
34 For the breed of the impious shall be sterile, and fire shall consume the tents of extortioners.	34 For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.
35 They conceive malice and bring forth emptiness; they give birth to failure.	35 He hath conceived sorrow, and hath brought forth iniquity, and his womb prepareth deceits.