Job 15 — ILT
15Verse 1Then answered Eliphaz the Themanite, and said,Verse 2Should a wise man utter windy knowledge, and fill his inward parts with the east wind?Verse 3Should he reason with a speech which availeth nothing? and with words in which there is no profit?Verse 4Yea, thou truly makest void the fear [of God], and diminishest devotion before God.Verse 5For thy iniquity teacheth thy mouth, so that thou choosest the language of the crafty.Verse 6Thy own mouth must condemn thee, but not I: yea, thy own lips will testify against thee.Verse 7Wast thou born as the first man? or wast thou brought forth before the hills?Verse 8Hast thou listened to the secret counsel of God? and is wisdom therefore of little esteem with thee?Verse 9What knowest thou, that we do not know? what understandest thou, which is not with us?Verse 10Both the grayheaded and the very aged are among us,— richer than thy father in days.Verse 11Are the divine consolations too little for thee? and the word that was so mild with thee?Verse 12Whither doth thy heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes gaze at?Verse 13That thou shouldst turn against God thy spirit, and utter [such] words out of thy mouth?Verse 14What is man, that he should be pure? and that he who is born of woman should be declared righteous?Verse 15Behold, in his holy ones he putteth no trust; and the heavens are not pure in his eyes:Verse 16How much more then the abominable and corrupt, the man who drinketh like water wrong-doing?Verse 17I will instruct thee, hear me; and what I have seen will I relate;Verse 18Which wise men have ever told, and have not concealed, as they obtained it from their fathers;Verse 19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and into whose midst no stranger ever entered.Verse 20All his days is the wicked plagued with pain, and the number of years which are laid by for the tyrant.Verse 21A sound of terrors is in his ears: during peace will the waster come over him.Verse 22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is looked for by the sword.Verse 23He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying,] Where is it? he knoweth that there is ready at his hand the day of darkness.Verse 24Distress and anguish terrify him: they assail him with might, as a king prepared for the battle.Verse 25Because he had stretched out against God his hand, and strengthened himself against the Almighty;Verse 26[And] he had run against him, with an [extended] neck, with the thick roundings of his bucklers;Verse 27Because he had covered his face with his fat, and had made thick folds of fat on his flanks;Verse 28And he dwelt in abandoned cities, in houses which none inhabited, which were destined to be ruinous heaps.Verse 29[Yet] will he not remain rich, neither will his wealth endure, nor will he attain their perfection on earth.Verse 30He will never depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his shoots, and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth.Verse 31Let him that goeth astray not trust in vanity; for vanity will be what he obtaineth thereby.Verse 32Even before his time will it be overfull, and his branches will not be green.Verse 33He will shake off like the vine his unripe grapes, and cast off like the olive his blossoms.Verse 34For the assembly of hypocrites will remain desolate, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.Verse 35They conceive trouble, and bring forth wrong-doing, and their body prepareth deceit.