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.