The Book of Job 15 |
The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) |
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. |