Job 15

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Eliphaz of Teman spoke next. He said:	1 And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said:
2 Does anyone wise respond with windy arguments, or feed on an east wind?	2 Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?
3 Or make a defence with ineffectual words and speeches good for nothing?	3 Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee.
4 You do worse: you suppress reverence, you discredit discussion before God.	4 As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.
5 Your very fault incites you to speak like this, hence you adopt this language of cunning.	5 For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips bear witness against you.	6 Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips shall answer thee.
7 Are you the first-born of the human race, brought into the world before the hills?	7 Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills ?
8 Have you been a listener at God's council, or established a monopoly of wisdom?	8 Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee?
9 What knowledge do you have that we have not, what understanding that is not ours too?	9 What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou understand that we know not?
10 One of us is an old, grey-headed man loaded with more years than your father!	10 There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy fathers.
11 Can you ignore these divine consolations and the moderate tone of our words?	11 Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.
12 How passion carries you away! And how you rol your eyes,	12 Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with thy eyes, as if they were thinking great things ?
13 when you vent your anger on God and speeches come tripping off your tongue!	13 Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth ?
14 How can anyone be pure, anyone born of woman be upright?	14 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?
15 God cannot rely even on his holy ones, to him, even the heavens seem impure.	15 Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.
16 How much more, this hateful, corrupt thing, humanity, which soaks up wickedness like water!	16 How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?
17 Listen to me, I have a lesson for you: I am going to impart my own experience	17 I will shew thee, hear me : and I mill tell thee what I have seen.
18 and the tradition of the sages who have remained faithful to their ancestors,	18 Wise men confess and hide not their fathers.
19 to whom alone the land was given -- no foreigner included among them.	19 To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger hath passed among them.
20 The life of the wicked is unceasing torment, the years al otted to the tyrant are numbered.	20 The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.
21 A cry of panic echoes in his ear; when al is peace, his destroyer swoops down on him.	21 The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.
22 No more can he count on escaping from the dark, but knows that he is destined 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 marked down as meat for the vulture. He knows that his ruin is at hand.	23 When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 The hour of darkness terrifies him, distress and anguish assail him as when a king is poised for theassault.	24 Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him, as a king that is prepared for the battle.
25 He raised his hand against God, boldly he defied Shaddai!	25 For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath strengthened himself against the Almighty.
26 Head lowered, he charged him, with his massively bossed shield.	26 He hath run against him with his neck raised up, and is armed with a fat neck.
27 His face had grown ful and fat, and his thighs too heavy with flesh.	27 Fatness hath covered his face, and the fat hangeth down on his sides.
28 He had occupied the towns he had destroyed, with their uninhabited houses about to fal into ruins;	28 He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps.
29 but no great profit to him, his luck will not hold, he wil cast his shadow over the country no longer,	29 He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he push his root in the earth.
30 (he wil not escape the dark). A flame wil scorch his young shoots, the wind will carry off his blossom.	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 Let him not trust in his great height or delusion will be his.	31 He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may be redeemed with any price.
32 His palm trees wil wither before their time and his branches never again be green.	32 Before his days be full he shall perish: and his hands shall wither away.
33 Like the vine, he wil shake off his unripe fruit, like the olive tree, shed his blossom.	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 Yes, sterile is the spawn of the sinner, and fire consumes the tents of the venal.	34 For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.
35 Whoever conceives malice, breeds disaster, bears as offspring only a false hope.	35 He hath conceived sorrow, and hath brought forth iniquity, and his womb prepareth deceits.