Job 15:1–16:22
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Job 15:1–16:22 · Psalm 93 (MT: 94) · Proverbs 22:28–29 · Romans 11:19–36
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1Then Eliphaz the Thæmanite answered and said,
1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,
2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
3reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit?
3Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?
4Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
5Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth , neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.
5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6Let thine own mouth , and not me, reprove thee: and thy lips shall testify against thee.
6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
7What! art thou the first man that was born? or wert thou established before the hills?
7Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
8Or hast thou heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used thee as [his] counsellor? and has wisdom come [only] to thee?
8Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
9For what knowest thou, that we know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also?
9What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
10Truly among us [are] both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than thy father.
10With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
11Thou hast been scourged for [but] few of thy sins: thou hast spoken haughtily [and] extravagantly.
11Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
12What has thine heart dared? or what have thine eyes [aimed at],
12Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
13that thou hast vented [thy] rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from [thy] mouth?
13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
14For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? or, [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just?
14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.
15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.
16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
17But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have seen ;
17I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
18things wise men say, and their fathershave not hidden.
18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
19To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them.
19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20All the life of the ungodly [is spent] in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.
20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
21And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come .
21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.
22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
23And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcase: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.
23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank.
24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.
25For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
26And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.
26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
27For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.
27Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
28And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.
28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
29Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.
29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
30Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.
30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
31Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.
31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
32His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.
32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
33And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.
33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
34For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.
34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
35And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.
35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
1But Job answered and said,
1Then Job answered and said,
2I have heard many such things: poor comforters are ye all.
2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
3What! is there any reason in vain words ? or what will hinder thee from answering?
3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4I also will speak as ye [do]: if indeed your soul were in my [soul's] stead, then would I insult you with words , and I would shake my head at you.
4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
5And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips .
5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
6For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less?
6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
7But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and thou hast laid hold of me.
7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.
8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
9In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.
9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp [spear] he has smitten me [down] upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord.
10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
11For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.
11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
12When I was at peace he distracted me : he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.
12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
13They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing [me] they poured out my gall upon the ground.
13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in [their] might.
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
15They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
16My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.
16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
18Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place.
18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
20Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.
20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
21Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even [as] the son of man with his neighbour!
21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
22But my years are numbered and [their end] come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.
22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.