Job 15

Eliphaz Speaks: Job Undermines Religion

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

2 # Job 6.26 “Should the wise answer with windy knowledge

and fill themselves with the east wind?

3Should they argue in unprofitable talk

or in words that can do no good?

4But you are doing away with the fear of God

and hindering meditation before God.

5 # Job 5.12, 13; Ps 36.3; Prov 16.23 For your iniquity teaches your mouth,

and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

6 # Job 9.20; Lk 19.22 Your own mouth condemns you, not I;

your own lips testify against you.

7 # Job 38.4, 21; Ps 90.2; Prov 8.25 “Are you the firstborn of the human race?

Were you brought forth before the hills?

8 # Job 12.2; Rom 11.34 Have you listened in the council of God?

And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

9 # Job 13.2 What do you know that we do not know?

What do you understand that is not clear to us?

10 # Job 32.6, 7 The gray-haired and the aged are on our side,

those older than your father.

11 # Job 36.15, 16; Zech 1.13; 2 Cor 1.3, 4 Are the consolations of God too small for you

or the word that deals gently with you?

12Why does your heart carry you away,

and why do your eyes flash,#15.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain

13 # Job 33.13 so that you turn your spirit against God,

and let such words go out of your mouth?

14 # Job 14.4; 25.4; Prov 20.9; Eccl 7.20 What are mortals, that they can be clean?

Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?

15 # Job 4.18; 25.5 God puts no trust even in his holy ones,

and the heavens are not clean in his sight;

16 # Job 34.7; Ps 14.1, 3 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,

one who drinks iniquity like water!

17“I will show you; listen to me;

what I have seen I will declare—

18 # Job 8.8 what sages have told

and their ancestors have not hidden,

19to whom alone the land was given,

and no stranger passed among them.

20 # Job 27.13 The wicked writhe in pain all their days,

through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.

21 # Job 18.11; 20.25; 1 Thess 5.3 Terrifying sounds are in their ears;

in prosperity the destroyer will come upon them.

22 # v 30 ; Job 27.14They despair of returning from darkness,

and they are destined for the sword.

23 # Job 18.12; Ps 59.15; 109.10 They wander abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’

They know that a day of darkness is ready at hand;

24distress and anguish terrify them;

they prevail against them like a king prepared for battle.

25 # Job 36.9 Because they stretched out their hands against God

and bid defiance to the Almighty,#15.25 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

26running stubbornly against him

with a thickly bossed shield;

27 # Ps 17.10 because they have covered their faces with their fat

and gathered fat upon their loins,

28they will live in desolate cities,

in houses that no one should inhabit,

houses destined to become heaps of ruins;

29 # Job 27.16, 17 they will not be rich, and their wealth will not endure,

nor will they strike root in the earth;#15.29 Vg: Meaning of Heb uncertain

30 # Job 4.9; 5.14; 22.20 they will not escape from darkness;

the flame will dry up their shoots,

and their blossom#15.30 Gk: Heb mouth will be swept away by the wind.

31 # Isa 59.4 Let them not trust in emptiness, deceiving themselves,

for emptiness will be their recompense.

32 # Job 18.16; 22.16; Ps 55.23 It will be paid in full before their time,

and their branch will not be green.

33 # Hab 3.17 They will shake off their unripe grape, like the vine,

and cast off their blossoms, like the olive tree.

34 # Job 8.22; 16.7 For the company of the godless is barren,

and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

35 # Ps 7.14; Isa 59.4; Hos 10.13 They conceive mischief and bring forth evil,

and their belly prepares deceit.”

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