Job 15
Revised Geneva Translation
15 “Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2 “Shall a wise man speak words of the wind, and fill his belly with the East wind?
3 “Shall he dispute with unprofitable words or with talk that is of no benefit?
4 “Surely, you have cast off fear and restrained prayer before God:
5 “For your mouth declares your iniquity, seeing you have chosen the tongue of the crafty.
6 “Your own mouth condemns you, and not me. And your lips testify against you.
7 “Are you the first man who was born? And were you made before the hills?
8 “Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you restrain wisdom to yourself?
9 “What do you know that we do not know, understand that is not in us?
10 “With us are both ancient and very aged men, far older than your father.
11 “Do the consolations of God seem small to you? Is this thing strange to you?
12 “Why does your heart take you away? And at what are you winking,
13 “that you answer to God at your pleasure and bring such words out of your mouth?
14 “What is man, that he would be clean? And he who is born of woman, that he would be just?
15 “Behold, He found no steadfastness in His saints. Yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.
16 “How much more abominable is man, and filthy, who drinks iniquity like water?
17 “I will tell you. Hear me, and I will declare that which I have seen,
18 “which wise men have told from their fathers and have not kept secret,
19 “to whom alone the land was given. And no stranger passed through them.
20 “The wicked man is continually as one who writhes in pain. And the number of years is hidden from the tyrant.
21 “A sound of fear is in his ears. In his prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22 “He does not believe he will return out of darkness, for he sees the sword before him.
23 “He wanders to and fro for bread. He knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
24 “Affliction and anguish shall make him afraid. They shall prevail against him as a king, ready to battle.
25 “For he has stretched out his hand against God and made himself strong against the Almighty.
26 “running upon Him, with the most thick part of his shield.
27 “Because he has covered his face with his fatness, and excess fat is in his loins.
28 “He dwells in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabits, but have become heaps.
29 “He shall not be rich. Nor shall his substance continue. Nor shall he prolong its gain on the Earth.
30 “He shall never depart from darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. And he shall go away with the breath of His mouth.
31 “Let him not err in his trust of frivolity. For frivolity shall be his reward.
32 “His branch shall not be green, but shall be cut off before his day.
33 “God shall destroy him as the vine does her sour grape, and shall cast him off as the olive does her flower.
34 “For the congregation of the hypocrite shall be desolate. And fire shall devour the houses of bribes.
35 “They conceive mischief and bring forth emptiness. And their belly has prepared deceit.”
Job 15
Names of God Bible
Eliphaz Speaks: You Are Speaking Sinfully, Job
15 Then Eliphaz from Teman replied to Job,
2 “Should a wise person answer with endless details
and fill his stomach with the east wind?
3 Should he argue with words that don’t help,
with speeches that don’t help anyone?
4 Yes, you destroy the fear of God
and diminish devotion to El.
5 Your sin teaches you what to say.
You choose to talk with a sly tongue.
6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I.
Your lips testify against you.
You Are Not the Only Wise Person, Job
7 “Were you the first human to be born?
Were you delivered before the hills existed?
8 Did you listen in on Eloah’s council meeting
and receive a monopoly on wisdom?
9 What do you know that we don’t know?
What do you understand that we don’t?
10 Both the old and the gray-haired are among us.
They are older than your father.
11 Isn’t El’s comfort enough for you,
even when gently spoken to you?
12 Why have your emotions carried you away?
Why do your eyes flash
13 when you turn against El
and spit these words out of your mouth?
14 Why should a mortal be considered faultless
or someone born of a woman be considered righteous?
15 If El doesn’t trust his holy ones,
and the heavens are not pure in his sight,
16 how much less will he trust the one who is disgusting and corrupt,
the one who drinks wickedness like water.
I Want to Tell You What I Know
17 “I’ll tell you; listen to me!
I’ll relate what I have seen.
18 I’ll tell you what wise people have declared
and what was not kept secret from their ancestors.
19 (The land was given to them alone,
and no stranger passed through their land.)
The Tortured Life of the Wicked Person
20 “The wicked person is tortured all his days.
Only a few years are reserved for the ruthless person.
21 Terrifying sounds are in his ears.
While he enjoys peace, the destroyer comes to him.
22 He doesn’t believe he’ll return from the dark.
He is destined to be killed with a sword.
23 He wanders around for food and asks, ‘Where is it?’[a]
He knows that his ruin is close at hand.
24 “The day of darkness[b] troubles him.
Distress and anguish terrify him
like a king ready for battle.
25 He stretches out his hand against El
and attacks Shadday like a warrior.
26 He stubbornly charges at him with a thick shield.
27 “His face is bloated with fat,
and he is fat around the waist.
28 He lives in ruined cities
where no one dwells,
in houses that are doomed to be piles of rubble.
29 He won’t get rich,
and his wealth won’t last.
His possessions won’t spread out over the land.
30 “He won’t escape the darkness.
A flame will shrivel his branches.
He will be blown away by his own breath.
31 He shouldn’t trust in worthless things and deceive himself
because he will get worthless things in return.
32 It will happen before his time has come,
and his branch will not become green.
33 He will drop his unripened grapes like a vine
and throw off his blossoms like an olive tree
34 because a mob of godless people produces nothing,
and fire burns up the tents of those who offer bribes.[c]
35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
Their wombs produce deception.”
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