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 Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,
2“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
3reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit?
3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
4Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?
4Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
5Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.
5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
6Let thine own mouth , and not me, reprove thee: and thy lips shall testify against thee.
6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
7What! art thou the first man that was born? or wert thou established before the hills?
7“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out 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?
8Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9For what knowest thou, that we know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also?
9What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand 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 gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
11Thou hast been scourged for [but] few of thy sins: thou hast spoken haughtily [and] extravagantly.
11Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
12What has thine heart dared? or what have thine eyes [aimed at],
12Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
13that thou hast vented [thy] rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from [thy] mouth?
13that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your 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? What is he who 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 puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
16Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.
16how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
17But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have seen;
17“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare
18things wise men say, and their fathershave not hidden.
18(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
19To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them.
19to whom alone the land 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 writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
21And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come .
21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on 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 doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by 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 wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows 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.
24Distress and anguish make him afraid. They 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.
25Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
26And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.
26he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
27For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.
27because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
28And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.
28He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were 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 will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
30Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.
30He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
31Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.
31Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
32His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.
32It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will 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 will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
34For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.
34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
35And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.
35They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
1But Job answered and said,
1Then Job answered,
2I have heard many such things: poor comforters are ye all.
2“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
3What! is there any reason in vain words ? or what will hinder thee from answering?
3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
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 you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my 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. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
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?
6“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. 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, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.
8My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.
8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies 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 has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on 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 on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
11For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.
11God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me 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, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.
13They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing [me] they poured out my gall upon the ground.
13His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.
14They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in [their] might.
14He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.
15They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.
15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.
16My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.
16My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,
17Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place .
18“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
19And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
20Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.
20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
21Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even [as] the son of man with his neighbour!
21that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
22But my years are numbered and [their end] come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.
22For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.