Job 15 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Then Eliphaz from Teman replied [to Job], Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 |Should a wise person answer with endless details and fill his stomach 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 argue with words that don't help, with speeches that don't help [anyone]? 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 destroy the fear [of God] and diminish devotion to 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 Your sin teaches you what to say. You choose [to talk with] a sly tongue. 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 condemns you, not I. Your 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 |Were you the first human to be born? Were you delivered before the hills [existed]? “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 Did you listen in on God's council meeting and receive a monopoly on wisdom? 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 do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that we don't? 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 Both the old and the gray-haired are among us. They are older 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 Isn't God's comfort enough for you, even when gently spoken to 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 have your emotions carried you away? Why do your eyes flash 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 when you turn against God and spit these words 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 Why should a mortal be considered faultless or someone born of a woman be considered 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 If God doesn't trust his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure 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 less will he trust the one who is disgusting and corrupt, the one who drinks wickedness 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'll tell you; listen to me! I'll relate what I have seen. “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 I'll tell you what wise people have declared and what was not kept secret from their ancestors. (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers, what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors
19 (The land was given to them alone, and no stranger passed through their land.) 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 person is tortured all his days. Only a few years are reserved for the ruthless person. 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 Terrifying sounds are in his ears. While he enjoys peace, the destroyer comes to 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 doesn't believe he'll return from the dark. He is destined [to be killed] with a 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 around for food and asks, 'Where is it?' He knows that his ruin is close at 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 |The day of darkness troubles him. Distress and anguish terrify him like a king ready for 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 He stretches out his hand against God and attacks the Almighty like a warrior. 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 stubbornly charges at him with a thick shield. running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield; defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.
27 |His face is bloated with fat, and he is fat around the waist. 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 He lives in ruined cities where no one dwells, in houses that are doomed to be piles of rubble. 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 won't get rich, and his wealth won't last. His possessions won't spread out over the land. 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 won't escape the darkness. A flame will shrivel his branches. He will be blown away by his own breath. 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 shouldn't trust in worthless things and deceive himself because he will get worthless things in return. 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 will happen before his time has come, and his branch will not become 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 will drop his unripened grapes like a vine and throw off his blossoms like an olive tree 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 because a mob of godless people produces nothing, and fire burns up the tents of those who offer 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 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Their wombs produce deception.| 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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