Job 15

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¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite spoke and said:	¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
² Should a wise man answer with airy opinions, or puff himself up with wind?	² Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
³ Should he argue in speech which does not avail, and in words which are to no profit?	³ Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
⁴ You in fact do away with piety, and you lessen devotion toward God,	⁴ Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
⁵ Because your wickedness instructs your mouth, and you choose to speak like the crafty.	⁵ For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
⁶ Your own mouth condemns you, not I; you own lips refute you.	⁶ Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against 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 the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
⁹ What do you know that we do not know? What intelligence have you which we have not?	⁹ What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
¹⁰ There are gray-haired old men among us more advanced in years than your father.	¹⁰ With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
¹¹ Are the consolations of God not enough for you, and speech that deals gently with you?	¹¹ Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
¹² Why do your notions carry you away, and why do your eyes blink,	¹² Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
¹³ So that you turn your anger against God and let such words escape your mouth!	¹³ That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go 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 clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
¹⁵ If in his holy ones God places no confidence, and if the heavens are not clean in his sight,	¹⁵ Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
¹⁶ How much less so is the abominable, the corrupt: man, who drinks in iniquity like water!	¹⁶ How much more abominable and filthy is man, which 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 that which I have seen I will declare;
¹⁸ What wise men relate and have not contradicted since the days of their fathers,	¹⁸ Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
¹⁹ To whom alone the land was given, when no foreigner moved among them.	¹⁹ Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger 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 travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
²¹ The sound of terrors is in his ears; when all is prosperous, the spoiler comes upon him.	²¹ A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
²² He despairs of escaping the darkness, and looks ever for the sword;	²² He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
²³ A wanderer, food for the vultures, he knows that his destruction is imminent.	²³ He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? 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 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
²⁵ Because he has stretched out his hand against God and bade defiance to the Almighty,	²⁵ For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth 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 runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
²⁷ Because he has blinded himself with his crassness, padding his loins with fat,	²⁷ Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
²⁸ He shall dwell in ruinous cities, in houses that are deserted, That are crumbling into clay	²⁸ And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become 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 rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon 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 by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
³¹ for vain shall be his bartering.	³¹ Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
³² His stalk shall wither before its time, and his branches shall be green no more.	³² It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
³³ He shall be like a vine that sheds its grapes unripened, and like an olive tree casting off its bloom.	³³ He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
³⁴ For the breed of the impious shall be sterile, and fire shall consume the tents of extortioners.	³⁴ For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
³⁵ They conceive malice and bring forth emptiness; they give birth to failure.	³⁵ They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

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