Job 15

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¹ Eliphaz of Teman spoke next. He said:	¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite spoke and said:
² Does anyone wise respond with windy arguments, or feed on an east wind?	² Should a wise man answer with airy opinions, or puff himself up with wind?
³ Or make a defence with ineffectual words and speeches good for nothing?	³ Should he argue in speech which does not avail, and in words which are to no profit?
⁴ You do worse: you suppress reverence, you discredit discussion before God.	⁴ You in fact do away with piety, and you lessen devotion toward God,
⁵ Your very fault incites you to speak like this, hence you adopt this language of cunning.	⁵ Because your wickedness instructs your mouth, and you choose to speak like the crafty.
⁶ Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips bear witness against you.	⁶ Your own mouth condemns you, not I; you own lips refute you.
⁷ Are you the first-born of the human race, brought into the world before the hills?	⁷ Are you indeed the first-born of mankind, or were you brought forth before the hills?
⁸ Have you been a listener at God's council, or established a monopoly of wisdom?	⁸ Are you privy to the counsels of God, and do you restrict wisdom to yourself?
⁹ What knowledge do you have that we have not, what understanding that is not ours too?	⁹ What do you know that we do not know? What intelligence have you which we have not?
¹⁰ One of us is an old, grey-headed man loaded with more years than your father!	¹⁰ There are gray-haired old men among us more advanced in years than your father.
¹¹ Can you ignore these divine consolations and the moderate tone of our words?	¹¹ Are the consolations of God not enough for you, and speech that deals gently with you?
¹² How passion carries you away! And how you rol your eyes,	¹² Why do your notions carry you away, and why do your eyes blink,
¹³ when you vent your anger on God and speeches come tripping off your tongue!	¹³ So that you turn your anger against God and let such words escape your mouth!
¹⁴ How can anyone be pure, anyone born of woman be upright?	¹⁴ What is a man that he should be blameless, one born of woman that he should be righteous?
¹⁵ God cannot rely even on his holy ones, to him, even the heavens seem impure.	¹⁵ If in his holy ones God places no confidence, and if the heavens are not clean in his sight,
¹⁶ How much more, this hateful, corrupt thing, humanity, which soaks up wickedness like water!	¹⁶ How much less so is the abominable, the corrupt: man, who drinks in iniquity like water!
¹⁷ Listen to me, I have a lesson for you: I am going to impart my own experience	¹⁷ I will show you, if you listen to me; what I have seen I will tell--
¹⁸ and the tradition of the sages who have remained faithful to their ancestors,	¹⁸ What wise men relate and have not contradicted since the days of their fathers,
¹⁹ to whom alone the land was given -- no foreigner included among them.	¹⁹ To whom alone the land was given, when no foreigner moved 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 in torment all his days, and limited years are in store for the tyrant;
²¹ A cry of panic echoes in his ear; when al is peace, his destroyer swoops down on him.	²¹ The sound of terrors is in his ears; when all is prosperous, the spoiler comes upon him.
²² No more can he count on escaping from the dark, but knows that he is destined for the sword,	²² He despairs of escaping the darkness, and looks ever for the sword;
²³ marked down as meat for the vulture. He knows that his ruin is at hand.	²³ A wanderer, food for the vultures, he knows that his destruction is imminent.
²⁴ The hour of darkness terrifies him, distress and anguish assail him as when a king is poised for theassault.	²⁴ By day the darkness fills him with dread; distress and anguish overpower him.
²⁵ He raised his hand against God, boldly he defied Shaddai!	²⁵ Because he has stretched out his hand against God and bade defiance to the Almighty,
²⁶ Head lowered, he charged him, with his massively bossed shield.	²⁶ One shall rush sternly upon him with the stout bosses of his shield, like a king prepared for the charge.
²⁷ His face had grown ful and fat, and his thighs too heavy with flesh.	²⁷ Because he has blinded himself with his crassness, padding his loins with fat,
²⁸ He had occupied the towns he had destroyed, with their uninhabited houses about to fal into ruins;	²⁸ He shall dwell in ruinous cities, in houses that are deserted, That are crumbling into clay
²⁹ but no great profit to him, his luck will not hold, he wil cast his shadow over the country no longer,	²⁹ with no shadow to lengthen over the ground. He shall not be rich, and his possessions shall not endure;
³⁰ (he wil not escape the dark). A flame wil scorch his young shoots, the wind will carry off his blossom.	³⁰ A flame shall wither him up in his early growth, and with the wind his blossoms shall disappear.
³¹ Let him not trust in his great height or delusion will be his.	³¹ for vain shall be his bartering.
³² His palm trees wil wither before their time and his branches never again be green.	³² His stalk shall wither before its time, and his branches shall be green no more.
³³ Like the vine, he wil shake off his unripe fruit, like the olive tree, shed his blossom.	³³ He shall be like a vine that sheds its grapes unripened, and like an olive tree casting off its bloom.
³⁴ Yes, sterile is the spawn of the sinner, and fire consumes the tents of the venal.	³⁴ For the breed of the impious shall be sterile, and fire shall consume the tents of extortioners.
³⁵ Whoever conceives malice, breeds disaster, bears as offspring only a false hope.	³⁵ They conceive malice and bring forth emptiness; they give birth to failure.

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