Job 15 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Then Eliphaz from Teman responded: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 |Should a wise person respond with knowledge based on wind? Should he fill his stomach with a wind storm from the east? “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 engage in unprofitable argument, or give a speech that benefits no one? 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 Yet you dispense with fear of God and hinder meditations 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 Because your sin dictates your speech, you have chosen the language 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 is condemning you, not I; your own lips will 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 person to be born? Were you brought forth before the hills were made? “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 listened in on God's secret council? Have you limited wisdom only 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 do you know that we don't know, or that you understand and that isn't clear to 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 |We have both the gray-haired and the aged with us, and they are far 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 Are God's encouragements inconsequential to you, even a word that has been spoken gently 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? And 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 that you turn your anger against God and speak words like this? 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 mankind, that he can be blameless? Or does being born of a woman mean he'll be in the right? 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 Look, if God doesn't trust his holy ones, if even the heavens aren't pure as he looks at them, 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 then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice 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 what, listen to me! Let me relate what I've 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 which is what wise men have explained, who didn't withhold anything 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 To them alone was the land given, when no invader passed through their midst. 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 writhes in pain throughout his life, a number of years has been reserved for the ruthless. 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 ring in his ears; when times are prosperous, the Destroyer will attack 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 does not believe he will escape darkness; he is destined for 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 around for food—where is it? He knows that a time of darkness is near. 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 Distress and pressure terrify him; they overwhelm him, like a king poised for attack. 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 has raised his fist against God, defying 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 defiantly ran against him carrying his thick, reinforced shield. running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield; defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.
27 Though he covered his face with fat, and is grossly overweight at 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 will live in devastated towns, in abandoned houses that are about to become heaps 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 become rich and his wealth won't last; he won't expand his holdings to cover 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 darkness; a flame will wither his shoots; and he'll depart by the breath of God's 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 Let him not trust in a worthless speech. He leads only himself astray, for emptiness will be his reward. 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 This will be accomplished before his time; his branches won't grow luxuriant. 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 is like a vine that drops its unripe grapes; like an olive tree that loses its blossoms. 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 company of the godless is desolation, and fire consumes the tents of those who bribe. 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 conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity; their womb is pregnant with 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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