15Job 15

1And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --Select Job 15:1

2Doth a wise man answer with vain knowledge? And fill with an east wind his belly?Select Job 15:2

3To reason with a word not useful? And speeches--no profit in them?Select Job 15:3

4Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.Select Job 15:4

5For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.Select Job 15:5

6Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.Select Job 15:6

7The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?Select Job 15:7

8Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?Select Job 15:8

9What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou--and it is not with us?Select Job 15:9

10Both the gray-headed And the very aged are among us--Greater than thy father in days.Select Job 15:10

11Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word is with thee,Select Job 15:11

12What--doth thine heart take thee away? And what--are thine eyes high?Select Job 15:12

13For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:Select Job 15:13

14What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?Select Job 15:14

15Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.Select Job 15:15

16Also--surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.Select Job 15:16

17I shew thee--hearken to me--And this I have seen and declare:Select Job 15:17

18Which the wise declare--And have not hid--from their fathers.Select Job 15:18

19To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:Select Job 15:19

20`All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.Select Job 15:20

21A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.Select Job 15:21

22He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched is he for the sword.Select Job 15:22

23He is wandering for bread--`Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.Select Job 15:23

24Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.Select Job 15:24

25For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.Select Job 15:25

26He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.Select Job 15:26

27For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over his confidence.Select Job 15:27

28And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.Select Job 15:28

29He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.Select Job 15:29

30He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!Select Job 15:30

31Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.Select Job 15:31

32Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.Select Job 15:32

33He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.Select Job 15:33

34For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.Select Job 15:34

35To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.Select Job 15:35