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OEB JOB Chapter 15

JOB 15 ©

15Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

2Would a wise man pour forth windy answers

Or fill with the east wind his breast?

3Would he reason with profitless words

And with speech that is all unavailing?

4See! thou art destroying religion,

Disturbing devout contemplation.

5Thy guilt instructeth thy mouth,

And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

6Thine own mouth condems thee – not I,

And thine own lips are witness against thee.

7Wast thou the first man to be born?

Wast thou fashioned before the hills?

8Wast thou one of the heavenly council?

Was wisdom revealed unto thee?

9What knowest thou that we know not?

What insight is thine and not ours?

10With us are the grey and the aged,

More mighty in years than thy father.

11Dost thou spurn the divine consolations,

The word that dealt with thee so gently?

12How fierce the emotions that sweep thee!

And how thou flashest thine eyes,

13As thou turnest thy breath against God

Into words from thy rebel lips!

14What is man that he should be clean,

Or just – one of woman born?

15See! He putteth no trust in His saints,

And the heavens are not clean in His sight:

16How much less one abhorrent and tainted–

A man that drinks evil like water!

17Now listen to what I will show thee,

The thing I have seen I will tell–

18Even tales that were told by the wise

And not hidden from them by their fathers,

19Who had the land all to themselves,

When no stranger had yet come among them.

20All his days is the wicked in pain,

All the years for the tyrant appointed.

21In his ears is the sound of terrors,

In peace comes the spoiler upon him.

22He cannot escape from the darkness

And he is reserved for the sword.

23Appointed as food for the vulture–

He knows that his doom is at hand.

The day of darkness appals him;

24aConstraint and distress overpower him;

25For he stretched out his hand against God,

Played the warrior against the Almighty,

26Running against Him stiff-necked

With the thick of the boss of his bucklers,

24bLike a king prepared for the onset.

27He covered his face with his fat,

He set thick folds of flesh on his loins;

28And he dwelt in desolate cities,

In houses that none should inhabit.

What he has won, others shall capture,

29His substance shall not endure.

On the earth he shall cast no shadow.

30bThe fierce heat shall wither his branches,

30cHis fruit shall the wind whirl away.

31Let him not trust his plant when it shoots,

For the branch thereof shall be vanity.

32It shall wither before its time,

Or ever its fronds become green.

33His grapes he shall shed like the vine,

And cast off like the olive his blossom.

34For a barren tribe are the godless;

Tents of bribery the fire shall consume.

35Big with mischief, they bring forth sin,

And their belly matures with deceit.

Job’s Cry to the Witness in Heaven

JOB 15 ©

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