Job 15

¹But Eliphaz the Themanite answering, said:

²Will a wise man answer as it were speaking into the wind, and fill his stomach with burning?

³Thou reprovest him in words, that is not equal to thee, & speakest that which is not expedient for thee.

⁴As much as is in thee, thou hast evacuated fear, and hast taken away prayers before God.

⁵For thine iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou doest imitate the tongue of blasphemers.

⁶Thine own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy lips shall answer thee.

⁷Wast thou the first man born, and formed before the little hills?

⁸Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee?

⁹What doest thou know, that we are ignorant of? What doest thou understand that we know not?

¹⁰There are both old men & ancients among us, much elder than thy fathers.

¹¹Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? But thy naughty words hinder it.

¹²Why doth thy heart elevate thee, & as thinking great things, hast thou astonished eyes?

¹³Why doeth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth?

¹⁴What is man, that he should be without spot, & that the born of a woman should appear just?

¹⁵Behold among his saints none is immutable, & the heavens are not clean in his sight.

¹⁶How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity as it were water?

¹⁷I will shew thee, hear me: that which I have seen I will tell thee.

¹⁸Wise men confess and hide not their fathers:

¹⁹to whom only the earth was given, and stranger hath not passed by them.

²⁰The impious is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.

²¹The sound of terror is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.

²²He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.

²³When he shall move himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is prepared in his hand.

²⁴Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall compass him, as a king that is prepared to battle.

²⁵For he hath stretched his hand against God, & is strengthened against the Omnipotent.

²⁶He hath run against him with neck set upright, and is armed with a fat neck.

²⁷Fatness hath covered his face, and from his sides there hangeth tallow.

²⁸He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses, that are brought into hillocks.

²⁹He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he put his root in the earth.

³⁰He shall not depart out of darkness, the flame shall dry his boughs, and he shall be taken away with the spirit of his own mouth.

³¹He shall not believe vainly deceived with error, that he may be redeemed with any price.

³²Before his days be accomplished, he shall perish: and his hands shall wither.

³³His cluster in the first flower shall be hurt as a vine, and as the olive tree casting his flower.

³⁴For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, which gladly take gifts.

³⁵He conceived sorrow, and hath brought forth iniquity, and his womb prepareth guiles.