Job 15
15
The Second Dialogue
(15.1—21.34)
Eliphaz
1-2Empty words, Job! Empty words!
3No wise person would talk as you do
or defend himself with such meaningless words.
4If you had your way, no one would fear God;
no one would pray to him.
5Your wickedness is evident by what you say;
you are trying to hide behind clever words.
6There is no need for me to condemn you;
you are condemned by every word you speak.
7Do you think you were the first person born?
Were you there when God made the mountains?
8Did you overhear the plans God made?
Does human wisdom belong to you alone?
9There is nothing you know that we don't know.
10We learnt our wisdom from grey-haired people —
those born before your father.
11God offers you comfort; why still reject it?
We have spoken for him with calm, even words.
12But you are excited and glare at us in anger.
13You are angry with God and denounce him.
14 #
Job 25.4–6
Can any human being be really pure?
Can anyone be right with God?
15Why, God does not trust even his angels;
even they are not pure in his sight.
16And people drink evil as if it were water;
yes, they are corrupt; they are worthless.
17Now listen, Job, to what I know.
18Those who are wise have taught me truths
which they learnt from their ancestors,
and they kept no secrets hidden.
19Their land was free from foreigners;
there was no one to lead them away from God.
20The wicked who oppress others
will be in torment as long as they live.
21Voices of terror will scream in their ears,
and robbers attack when they think they are safe.
22They have no hope of escaping from darkness,
for somewhere a sword is waiting to kill them,
23and vultures#15.23 One ancient translation vultures; Hebrew where is he? are waiting#15.23 One ancient translation are waiting; Hebrew he wanders. to eat their corpses.
They know their future is dark;
24disaster, like a powerful king,
is waiting to attack them.
25That is the fate of those
who shake their fists at God
and defy the Almighty.
26-27They are proud and rebellious;
they stubbornly hold up their shields
and rush to fight against God.
28They are the ones who captured cities
and seized houses whose owners had fled,
but war will destroy those cities and houses.
29They will not remain rich for long;
nothing they own will last.
Even their shadows#15.29 One ancient translation shadow; Hebrew unclear. will vanish,
30and they will not escape from darkness.
They will be like trees
whose branches are burnt by fire,
whose blossoms#15.30 One ancient translation blossoms; Hebrew mouth. are blown away by the wind.
31If they are foolish enough to trust in evil,
then evil will be their reward.
32Before their time is up they will wither,#15.32 Some ancient translations wither; Hebrew be filled.
wither like a branch and never be green again.
33They will be like vines that lose their unripe grapes;
like olive trees that drop their blossoms.
34There will be no descendants for godless people,
and fire will destroy the homes built by bribery.
35These are the ones who plan trouble and do evil;
their hearts are always full of deceit.
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Job 15
15
Eliphaz Speaks
1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge,
And fill his belly with the east wind?
3Should he reason with unprofitable talk?
Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4Yea, thou castest off fear,
And restrainest prayer before God.
5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity,
And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I:
Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
7 Art thou the first man that was born?
Or wast thou made before the hills?
8Hast thou heard the secret of God?
And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
9What knowest thou, that we know not?
What understandest thou, which is not in us?
10With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men,
Much elder than thy father.
11 Are the consolations of God small with thee?
Is there any secret thing with thee?
12Why doth thine heart carry thee away?
And what do thy eyes wink at,
13That thou turnest thy spirit against God,
And lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
14What is man, that he should be clean?
And he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints;
Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16How much more abominable and filthy is man,
Which drinketh iniquity like water?
17I will shew thee, hear me;
And that which I have seen I will declare;
18Which wise men have told
From their fathers, and have not hid it:
19Unto whom alone the earth was given,
And no stranger passed among them.
20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days,
And the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
21A dreadful sound is in his ears:
In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,
And he is waited for of the sword.
23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?
He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid;
They shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25For he stretcheth out his hand against God,
And strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
26He runneth upon him, even on his neck,
Upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
27Because he covereth his face with his fatness,
And maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
28And he dwelleth in desolate cities,
And in houses which no man inhabiteth,
Which are ready to become heaps.
29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,
Neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
30He shall not depart out of darkness;
The flame shall dry up his branches,
And by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity:
For vanity shall be his recompence.
32It shall be accomplished before his time,
And his branch shall not be green.
33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine,
And shall cast off his flower as the olive.
34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate,
And fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity,
And their belly prepareth deceit.
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