3.9 KiB
3.9 KiB
Job 15
- Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
- “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
- Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?
- But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God.
- For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
- Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.
- “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
- Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
- Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
- Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?
- Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,
- that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth?
- What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
- Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
- how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!
- “I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare
- (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,
- to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).
- The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
- Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
- He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.
- He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
- distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
- Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,
- running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;
- because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist
- and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
- he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth;
- he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.
- Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.
- It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
- He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
- For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
- They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.”
(ESV)