Job 15 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 And Eli-Phaz the Temanite will answer and say, Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 Shall a wise one answer knowledge of wind, and fill his belly 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 Reproving with words he shall not profit, and speeches will be of no use in them. 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 Also thou wilt bring to nought, fear, and thou wilt withhold meditation 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 will accustom itself to thine iniquity, and thou wilt choose the 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 Thy mouth will condemn thee, and not I: and thy lips will 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 Shalt thou be the firm man born? and hadst thou a beginning 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 Shalt thou hear in the consultation of God? and wilt thou reserve wisdom to thyself? 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 knewest thou and we shall not know? wilt thou understand and it not be with 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 Also the gray headed and old man with us, great of days above thy fathers. 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 Is it small with thee the consolations of God? and a word covered with 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 shall thy heart take thee? and why shall thine eyes wink? 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 wilt turn thy spirit against God, and thou broughtest 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 What is man that he will be clean? and that he will be just, being born of woman? 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 Behold, in his holy ones he will, not trust; and the heavens were not clean in his eyes. 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 abominable and corrupt is man drinking iniquity as 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 thee, hear to me; and that I saw I will recount; “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 the wise ones will announce, and he hid it not from their fathers. (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 a stranger passed not in the midst of 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 days the unjust one himself being pained, and numbering the years they were hidden to him terrifying. 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 voice of fears in his ears: in peace he destroying shall come 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 will not believe to turn back from darkness, and he was waited for by 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 wandered about for bread, where he knew that the day of darkness was ready at his 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 Straitness and distress shall terrify him; they shall overpower him as a king ready for war. 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 stretched forth his hand against God, and he will strengthen himself against 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 will run against him upon the neck, upon the thicknesses of his shields: running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield; defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.
27 For he covered his face with his fat, and he will make fatness upon the flank. 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 he will dwell in cities out off, the houses shall not be inhabited by them, which were ready for heaps. 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, and his wealth shall not rise up; their possession shall not extend 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 He shall not depart from darkness; the flame shall dry up his suckers, and by the breath of his mouth shall he depart. 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 being deceived shall not trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his compensation. 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 Before his day it shall be completed, and his branch was not 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 shake off as a vine his unripe grapes, and he will cast his flower as 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 the assembly of the profane is hard, and fire consumed the tents of the gift. 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 He conceiving trouble and he bringing forth vanity, and their belly shall prepare 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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