Job 15 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 Does a wise man answer with windy opinions, or puff himself up 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 Does he argue in speech that does not avail, and in words that are to no profit? 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 You in fact do away with piety, you lessen devotion toward 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 wickedness instructs your mouth, and you choose to speak like 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 condemns you, not I; your own lips refute 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 to be born? Were you brought forth 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 Do you listen in on God’s council and restrict 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 do you know that we do not know, or understand that we do not? 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 There are gray-haired old men among us, more advanced in years 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 not enough for you, and speech that deals gently 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 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 So that you turn your anger against God and let such words escape 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 How can any mortal be blameless, anyone born of woman 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 If in his holy ones God places no confidence, and if the heavens are not without blame 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 so is the abominable and corrupt: people who drink in 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, if you listen to me; what I have seen I will tell— “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 What the wise relate and have not contradicted since the days of 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 whom alone the land was given, when no foreigner moved 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 is in torment all his days, and limited years are in store 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 The sound of terrors is in his ears; when all is prosperous, a spoiler comes upon 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 despairs of escaping the darkness, and looks ever 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 A wanderer, food for vultures, he knows destruction is imminent. 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 A day of darkness fills him with dread; distress and anguish overpower him, like a king expecting an 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 Because he has stretched out his hand against God and arrogantly challenged 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 Rushing defiantly against him, with the stout bosses of his shields. running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield; defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.
27 Although he has covered his face with his crassness, padded his loins with blubber, 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 shall dwell in ruined cities, in houses that are deserted, crumbling into 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 shall not be rich, his possessions shall not endure; his property shall not spread 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 A flame shall sear his early growth, and with the wind his blossoms shall disappear. 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 his height, misled, even though his height be like the palm tree. 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 He shall wither before his time, his branches no longer 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 be like a vine that sheds its grapes unripened, like an olive tree casting off its blossom. 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 breed of the impious shall be sterile, and fire shall consume the tents of extortioners. 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 malice, bring forth deceit, give birth to fraud. 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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