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King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation |
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| 15:1 | Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, | And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: -- |
| 15:2 | Should a wise man utter |
Doth a wise man answer `with' vain knowledge? And fill `with' an east wind his belly? |
| 15:3 | Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? | To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them? |
| 15:4 | Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest |
Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God. |
| 15:5 | For thy mouth |
For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile. |
| 15:6 | Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. | Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee. |
| 15:7 | Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? | The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed? |
| 15:8 | Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? | Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom? |
| 15:9 | What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us? | What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us? |
| 15:10 | With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. | Both the gray-headed And the very aged `are' among us -- Greater than thy father `in' days. |
| 15:11 | Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? | Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word `is' with thee, |
| 15:12 | Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, | What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high? |
| 15:13 | That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? | For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth: |
| 15:14 | What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? | What `is' man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman? |
| 15:15 | Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. | Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes. |
| 15:16 | How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? | Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness. |
| 15:17 | I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; | I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare: |
| 15:18 | Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: | Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers. |
| 15:19 | Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. | To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst: |
| 15:20 | The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. | `All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one. |
| 15:21 | A fearful voice `is' in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him. | |
| 15:22 | He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. | He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched `is' he for the sword. |
| 15:23 | He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. | He is wandering for bread -- `Where `is' it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness. |
| 15:24 | Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. | Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster. |
| 15:25 | For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. | For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty. |
| 15:26 | He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: | He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields. |
| 15:27 | Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks. | For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over `his' confidence. |
| 15:28 | And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. | And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps. |
| 15:29 | He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. | He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance. |
| 15:30 | He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. | He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth! |
| 15:31 | Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. | Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence. |
| 15:32 | It shall be |
Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green. |
| 15:33 | He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. | He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom. |
| 15:34 | For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. | For the company of the profane `is' gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery. |
| 15:35 | They conceive mischief, and bring forth |
To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit. |