15:1 Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered
and said,
15:2 Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he
fill up the pain of his belly,
15:3 reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit?
15:4 Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words
before Yehovah?
15:5 Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned
the words of the mighty.
15:6 Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: and thy lips shall
testify against thee.
15:7 What! art thou the first man that was born? r wert thou established
before the hills?
15:8 Or hast thou heard the ordinance of Yehovah? or has Elohim used thee as
[his] counsellor? and has wisdom come [only] to thee?
15:9 For what knowest thou, that, we know not? or what understandest thou,
which we do not also?
15:10 Truly among us [are] both the old and very aged man, more advanced in
days than thy father.
15:11 Thou hast been scourged for [but] few of thy sins: thou hast spoken
haughtily [and] extravagantly.
15:12 What has thine heart dared? or what have thine eyes [aimed at],
15:13 that thou hast vented [thy] rage before Yehovah, and delivered such
words from [thy] mouth?
15:14 For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? or,
[who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just?
15:15 Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure
before him.
15:16 Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as
a draught.
15:17 But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have
seen;
15:18 things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.
15:19 To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them.
15:20 All the life of the ungodly [is spent] in care, and the years granted
to the oppressor are numbered.
15:21 And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his
overthrow will come.
15:22 Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been
already made over to the power of the sword.
15:23 And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within
himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him
away as with a whirlwind.
15:24 Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a
captain in the first rank.
15:25 For he has lifted his hands against Yehovah, and he has hardened his
neck against the Almighty Lord.
15:26 And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the
back of his shield.
15:27 For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon
his thighs.
15:28 And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without
inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.
15:29 Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he
shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.
15:30 Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast
his blossom, and let his flower fall off.
15:31 Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.
15:32 His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not
flourish.
15:33 And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let
him fall as the blossom of the olive.
15:34 For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the
houses of them that receive gifts.
15:35 And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his
belly shall bear deceit. |
15:1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and
said,
15:2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the
east wind?
15:3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he
can do no good?
15:4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before Elohim.
15:5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of
the crafty.
15:6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify
against thee.
15:7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the
hills?
15:8 Hast thou heard the secret of Elohim? and dost thou restrain wisdom to
thyself?
15:9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is
not in us?
15:10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy
father.
15:11 Are the consolations of Elohim small with thee? is there any secret thing
with thee?
15:12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
15:13 That thou turnest thy spirit against Elohim, and lettest such words go
out of thy mouth?
15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman,
that he should be righteous?
15:15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not
clean in his sight.
15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity
like water?
15:17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
15:18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
15:19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among
them.
15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of
years is hidden to the oppressor.
15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall
come upon him.
15:22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is
waited for of the sword.
15:23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that
the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
15:24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against
him, as a king ready to the battle.
15:25 For he stretcheth out his hand against Elohim, and strengtheneth himself
against the Almighty.
15:26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his
bucklers:
15:27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of
fat on his flanks.
15:28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man
inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither
shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
15:30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his
branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his
recompence.
15:32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be
green.
15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off
his flower as the olive.
15:34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall
consume the tabernacles of bribery.
15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly
prepareth deceit. |