LITV - Job - 15

15:1  And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

15:2  Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

15:3  Should he reason with speech that is not useful, or with words having no profit in them?

15:4  Yea, you do away with fear, and take away devotion before God.

15:5  For your iniquity teaches your mouth; and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

15:6  Your mouth condemns you, and not I; yea, your own lips testify against you.

15:7  Were you the first man born? Or were you made before the hills?

15:8  Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

15:9  What do you know that we do not know? Or understand, that is not with us?

15:10  With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men , mightier than your father as to days.

15:11  Are the comforts of God small with you, and a word that deals gently with you?

15:12  Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash,

15:13  that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

15:14  What is man that he should be clean? And he born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

15:15  Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in His eyes.

15:16  How much more is filthy man loathed, who drinks iniquity like water!

15:17  I will tell you; hear me, and I will declare this that I have seen;

15:18  that which wise men have told, and have not hidden from their fathers;

15:19  to them alone the land was given; and no alien passed among them.

15:20  All the days of the wicked he is laboring in pain; a number of years are stored up for the ruthless.

15:21  A dreadful sound of things is in his ears; the destroyer shall come on him in peace.

15:22  He does not believe in a return from darkness, but he is awaited by the sword.

15:23  He is wandering, for he seeks for bread. Where is it ? He knows that the day of darkness is at his hand.

15:24  Distress and pain terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the attack;

15:25  because he stretched out his hand against God, and acts mighty against the Almighty.

15:26  He runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick layers of his shields,

15:27  because he has covered his face with fat; yea, he has put fat on his loins.

15:28  And he dwells in cut off cities; in houses where no one are lives in them, which are ready to become heaps.

15:29  He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth hold out; nor shall he stretch out their gain on the earth.

15:30  He shall not escape from darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches; and he shall turn at the breath of His mouth.

15:31  Let not he being deceived trust in vanity; for his reward shall be vanity.

15:32  Before his day it shall be fulfilled, and his branch shall not be green;

15:33  he shall shake off its unripe grape as the vine; and he shall cast its flower like the olive.

15:34  For the company of the ungodly shall be bleak; and fire shall devour the tents of bribery;

15:35  they conceive mischief and generate evil; and their belly prepares deceit.