Rotherham - Job - 15

15:1  Then responded Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:

15:2  Should, a wise man, answer unreal knowledge? or fill, with the east wind, his inner man?

15:3  Disputing with discourse that doth no good, or with speech, wherein is no profit?

15:4  But, thou, wouldst take away reverence, and wouldst attain unto meditation before GOD.

15:5  For thine own mouth would teach thine iniquity, and thou wouldst choose the tongue of the crafty.

15:6  Thine own mouth shall condemn thee, and, not I, And, thine own lips, shall testify against thee.

15:7  The first of mankind, wast thou born? Or, before the hills, wast thou brought forth?

15:8  In the secret council of GOD, hast thou been wont to hearken? Or canst thou attain for thyself unto wisdom?

15:9  What knowest thou, that we know not? [What] understandest thou, and the same, is not with us?

15:10  Both hoary and venerable, are among us, one mightier than thy father in days!

15:11  Too small for thee, are the consolations of GOD? or a word spoken gently with thee?

15:12  How doth thine own heart carry thee away, and how thine eyes do roll!

15:13  For thy spirit, replieth against GOD, and thou bringest forth—out of thy mouth—words!

15:14  What is a mortal, that he should be pure? or that righteous should be one born of a woman?

15:15  Lo! in his holy ones, he putteth not confidence, and, the heavens, are not pure in his eyes:

15:16  How much less when one is detested and corrupt, a man who drinketh in—like water—perversity.

15:17  I will tell thee—hear me, Since this I have seen, I must needs declare it.

15:18  Which, wise men, tell, and deny not [that which is] from their fathers.

15:19  To them alone, was the earth given, and no alien passed through their midst:

15:20  All the days of the lawless man, he, doth writhe with pain, and, the number of years, is hidden from the tyrant;

15:21  A noise of dreadful things, is in his ears, In prosperity, the destroyer cometh upon him;

15:22  He hath no confidence to come back out of darkness, he, being destined to the power oft the sword;

15:23  A wanderer, he, for bread, [saying] Where [is it] ? He knoweth that, prepared by his own hand, is the day of darkness;

15:24  Distress and anguish shall startle him, It shall overpower him, like a king ready for the onset:

15:25  Because he had stretched out—against GOD—his hand, and, against the Almighty, had been wont to behave himself proudly;

15:26  He used to run against him with uplifted neck, with the stout bosses of his bucklers;

15:27  For he had covered his face with his fatness, and had gathered a superabundance on his loins;

15:28  And had inhabited demolished cities, houses, wherein men would not dwell, that were destined to become heaps.

15:29  He shall not be rich, nor shall his substance continue, neither shall their shadow stretch along on the earth;

15:30  He shall not depart out of darkness, his young branch, shall the flame dry up, and he shall depart, by the breath of his own mouth!

15:31  Let no one trust in him that—by vanity—is deceived, for, vanity, shall be his recompense;

15:32  Before his day, shall it be accomplished, with, his palm-top, not covered with leaves;

15:33  He shall wrong—like a vine—his sour grapes, and shall cast off—as an olive-tree—his blossom.

15:34  For, the family of the impious, is unfruitful, and, a fire, hath devoured the tents of bribery;

15:35  Conceiving mischief, and bringing forth iniquity, yea, their inmost soul, prepareth deceit.