| 15 | Job | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Then Eli'phaz the Te'manite answered: | THE SECOND DIALOGUE. Jb.15.1-21.34. Eliphaz. Jb.15.1-35 | ||
| "Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind? | |||
| Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good? | |||
| But you are doing away with the fear of God, and hindering meditation before God. | |||
| For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. | |||
| Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you. | |||
| "Are you the first man that was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills? | |||
| Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? | |||
| What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us? | |||
| Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father. | |||
| Are the consolations of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you? | |||
| Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash, | |||
| that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth? | |||
| What is man, that he can be clean? Or he that is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? | |||
| Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight; | |||
| how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water! | |||
| "I will show you, hear me; and what I have seen I will declare | |||
| (what wise men have told, and their fathers have not hidden, | |||
| to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them). | |||
| The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless. | |||
| Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him. | |||
| He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is destined for the sword. | |||
| He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand; | |||
| distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king prepared for battle. | |||
| Because he has stretched forth his hand against God, and bids defiance to the Almighty, | |||
| running stubbornly against him with a thick-bossed shield; | |||
| because he has covered his face with his fat, and gathered fat upon his loins, | |||
| and has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no man should inhabit, which were destined to become heaps of ruins; | |||
| he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will he strike root in the earth; | |||
| he will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and his blossom will be swept away by the wind. | |||
| Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his recompense. | |||
| It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green. | |||
| He will shake off his unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off his blossom, like the olive tree. | |||
| For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery. | |||
| They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their heart prepares deceit." | |||
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