Job 15:1
And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --
Job 15:2
Doth a wise man answer with vain knowledge? And fill with an east wind his belly?
Job 15:3
To reason with a word not useful? And speeches--no profit in them?
Job 15:4
Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
Job 15:5
For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.
Job 15:6
Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.
Job 15:7
The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?
Job 15:8
Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?
Job 15:9
What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou--and it is not with us?
Job 15:10
Both the gray-headed And the very aged are among us--Greater than thy father in days.
Job 15:11
Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word is with thee,
Job 15:12
What--doth thine heart take thee away? And what--are thine eyes high?
Job 15:13
For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:
Job 15:14
What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
Job 15:15
Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
Job 15:16
Also--surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
Job 15:17
I shew thee--hearken to me--And this I have seen and declare:
Job 15:18
Which the wise declare--And have not hid--from their fathers.
Job 15:19
To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:
Job 15:20
`All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
Job 15:21
A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.
Job 15:22
He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched is he for the sword.
Job 15:23
He is wandering for bread--`Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
Job 15:24
Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.
Job 15:25
For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.
Job 15:26
He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.
Job 15:27
For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over his confidence.
Job 15:28
And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.
Job 15:29
He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.
Job 15:30
He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!
Job 15:31
Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.
Job 15:32
Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.
Job 15:33
He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
Job 15:34
For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.
Job 15:35
To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.