Job 15 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? “Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good? Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good? Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?
4 Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God. But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God. But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.
5 For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.
6 Your own mouth comdemns you, and not I: yes, your own lips testify against you. Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you. Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.
7 Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills? “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills? “Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
8 Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself? Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? Do you listen in on God’s council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
9 What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us? What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us? What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?
10 With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much elder than your father. Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father. The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.
11 Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing with you? Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you? Are God’s consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?
12 Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at, Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash, Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth? that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth? so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? “What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?
15 Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight. Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight; If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water? how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water! how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!
17 I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; “I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare “Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen,
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers, what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors
19 To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them). (to whom alone the land was given when no foreigners moved among them):
20 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless. All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.
21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come on him. Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him. Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.
22 He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword. He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness; he is marked for the sword.
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand; He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle. Distress and anguish fill him with terror; troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,
25 For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty. Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty, because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
26 He runs on him, even on his neck, on the thick bosses of his bucklers: running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield; defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.
27 Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes bulges of fat on his flanks. because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist “Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,
28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps. and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins; he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof on the earth. he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth; He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
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. he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart. He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense. Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment. Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless, for he will get nothing in return.
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green. Before his time he will wither, and his branches will not flourish.
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree. He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.
34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery. For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.” They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit.”
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