Job 15 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said, Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 Will a wise man give for answer a mere breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly, “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 reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is 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 Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord? 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 Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty. 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 Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: and thy lips shall testify 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 What! art thou the first man that was born? or wert thou established 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 Or hast thou heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used thee as his counsellor? and has wisdom come only 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 For what knowest thou, that, we know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also? 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 Truly among us are both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than 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 Thou hast been scourged for but few of thy sins: thou hast spoken haughtily and extravagantly. 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 What has thine heart dared? or what have thine eyes aimed 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 thou hast vented thy rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from 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 For who, being a mortal, is such that he shall be blameless? or, who that is born of a woman, that he should be just? 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 Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him. 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 Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught. 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 But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now 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 things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden. (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 the earth was given, and no stranger came upon 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 All the life of the ungodly is spent in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered. 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 And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come. 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 Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power 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 And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind. 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 also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank. 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 lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord. 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 And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield. running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield; defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.
27 For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs. 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 let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away. 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 Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon 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 Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off. 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 think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity. 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 harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish. 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 And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of 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 death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts. 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 And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear 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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