Job 15 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and saide, Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde, and fill his bellie with the East winde? “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 Shall he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable? 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 Surely thou hast cast off feare, and restrainest 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 thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye 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 Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee. 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 Art thou the first man, that was borne? and wast thou made before the hils? “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 Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome to thee? 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 knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs? 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 vs are both auncient and very aged men, farre older then thy 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 Seeme the consolations of God smal vnto thee? is this thing strange vnto thee? 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 doeth thine heart take thee away, and what doe thine eyes meane, 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 thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy 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 cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust? 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 Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane 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 is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie 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 tell thee: heare me, and I will declare that which I haue seene: “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 haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret: (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers, what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors
19 To whome alone the land was giuen and no stranger passed through 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 is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant. 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 sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon 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 beleeueth not to returne out of darknesse: for he seeth the sworde before him. 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 wandreth to and fro for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande. 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 Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell. 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 hath stretched out his hand against God, and made him selfe strong against the Almightie. 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 Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde. running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield; defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.
27 Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke. 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 Though he dwell in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes, 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 in 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 neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth. 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 He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change. 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 His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day. 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 God shall destroy him as the vine her sower grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre. 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 the hypocrite shalbe desolate, and fire shall deuoure the houses of bribes. 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 For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite. 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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