LEB JOB chapter 15

Eliphaz’s Second Response to Job

15 Then[fn] Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

2 the wise answer with windy knowledge, and should he fill his stomach with the east wind?
3 that is not profitable or in words with which he cannot do good?
4 [fn] you yourself[fn] are doing away with fear, and you are lessening meditation[fn] God.
5  and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
6  and your lips testify against you.
7  And were you brought forth[fn] the hills?
8  And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9  What do you understand that is not clear to us?
10 the gray-haired and the old are among us—[fn]
11  a word spoken gently with you?
12  And why do your eyes flash,
13  and you let such words go out of your mouth?
14 is a human being, that he can be clean, or[fn] that one born of a woman can be righteous?
15  and the heavens are not clean in his eyes.
16 [fn] he who is abominable and corrupt,[fn] a man drinking wickedness like water.
17  and what I have seen, I will tell[fn]—
18  and they have not hidden that which is from their ancestors,
19 [fn] the land was given, and no stranger passed through their midst.
20 one’s days he is writhing, even[fn] through the number of years that are laid up for the tyrant.
21 are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come against him.
22 [fn] from darkness, and he himself[fn] is destined for the sword.
23 saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready[fn]
24  they[fn] overpower him like a king ready for the battle.
25  and he was arrogant to Shaddai;
26 [fn] runs against him[fn]
27  and has gathered fat upon his loins,
28 [fn] in desolate cities, in houses that they should not inhabit,
which are destined for rubble.
29  and their possessions will not stretch across the earth.[fn]
30  a flame will dry up his new shoot,
and by the wind of his mouth he shall be removed.
31  for worthlessness will be his recompense.
32 [fn] and his branch will not flourish.
33  and he will cast off his blossom like the olive tree;
34 the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.
35 They conceive trouble and bring forth mischief, and their womb prepares deceit.”

?:? Hebrew “And”

?:? Literally “Also,” or “Even”

?:? Emphatic personal pronoun

?:? Literally “to the faces of”

?:? Literally “more aged than your father in days”

?:? Or “and”

?:? Literally “Also for,” or “Indeed for,” or “Indeed that”

?:? Or “he who is corrupt”

?:? Literally “and I will tell”

?:? Literally “to them to alone them”

?:? Hebrew “and”

?:? Literally “He cannot trust to return,” or “He is not certain to return,” or “He cannot be sure to return” (compare NJPS)

?:? Emphatic personal pronoun

?:? Hebrew “at his hand”; the meaning seems to be, “his ruin is certain”

?:? Hebrew “it”

?:? Literally “with neck”

?:? Literally “with the thickness of the boss of his shield”

?:? Hebrew “and he will dwell”

?:? See HCSB, ESV; or “will not reach to the earth”; perhaps “his possessions will not go to the underworld”

?:? Literally “in not his day,” or “without his day”

LEB JOB Chapter 15