Job 15
15
Eliphaz's Second Speech
If You Had Any Sense
1Eliphaz from Teman#15.1 Teman: See the note at 2.11. said:
* 2Job, if you had any sense,
3you would stop spreading
all of this hot air.
4Your words are enough
to make others turn from God
and lead them to doubt.
5And your sinful, scheming mind
is the source of all you say.
6I am not here as your judge;
your own words are witnesses
against you.
7Were you the first human?
Are you older than the hills?
8Have you ever been present
when God's council#15.8 God's council: The angels and others who gather to discuss matters with God (see 1.6; 2.1). meets?
Do you alone have wisdom?
9Do you know and understand
something we don't?
10We have the benefit of wisdom
older than your father.
11And you have been offered
comforting words from God.
Isn't this enough?
12Your emotions are out of control,
making you look fierce;
13that's why you attack God
with everything you say.
14 #
Job 25.4-6. No human is pure and innocent,
15and neither are angels—
not in the sight of God.
If God doesn't trust his angels,
16what chance do humans have?
We are so terribly evil
that we thirst for sin.
Just Listen to What I Know
17Just listen to what I know,
and you will learn
18wisdom known by others
since ancient times.
19Those who gained such insights
also gained the land,
and they were not influenced
by foreign teachings.
20But suffering is in store
each day for those who sin.
21Even in times of success,
they constantly hear
the threat of doom.
22Darkness, despair, and death
are their destiny.
23They scrounge around for food,
all the while dreading
the approaching darkness.
24They are overcome with despair,
like frightened soldiers facing
a fearsome king in battle.
25This is because they rebelled
against God All-Powerful
26and have attacked him
with their weapons.
27They may be rich and fat,
28but they will live in the ruins
of deserted towns.
29Their property and wealth
will shrink and disappear.
30They won't escape the darkness,
and the blazing breath of God
will set their future aflame.
* 31They have put their trust
in something worthless;
now they will become worthless
32like a date palm tree
without a leaf.#15.32 leaf: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 32.
33Or like vineyards or orchards
whose blossoms and unripe fruit
drop to the ground.
34Yes, the godless and the greedy
will have nothing but flames
feasting on their homes,
35because they are the parents
of trouble and vicious lies.
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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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