Job 15:1-35 - Eliphaz's Second Response To Job

¹ And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: -- ² Doth a wise man answer with vain knowledge? And fill with an east wind his belly? ³ To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them? ⁴ Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God. ⁵ For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile. ⁶ Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.

⁷ The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed? ⁸ Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom? ⁹ What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us? ¹⁰ Both the gray-headed And the very aged are among us -- Greater than thy father in days. ¹¹ Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word is with thee, ¹² What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high? ¹³ For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:

¹⁴ What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman? ¹⁵ Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes. ¹⁶ Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

¹⁷ I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare: ¹⁸ Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers. ¹⁹ To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst: ²⁰ 'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one. ²¹ A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him. ²² He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched is he for the sword. ²³ He is wandering for bread -- 'Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness. ²⁴ Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster. ²⁵ For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty. ²⁶ He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields. ²⁷ For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over his confidence. ²⁸ And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps. ²⁹ He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance. ³⁰ He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth! ³¹ Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence. ³² Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green. ³³ He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom. ³⁴ For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery. ³⁵ To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.