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Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Eliphaz Accuses: Job Does Not Fear God
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,
“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge,
and fill his belly with the east wind?
and fill his belly with the east wind?
Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?
Should he argue in unprofitable talk,
or in words with which he can do no good?
or in words with which he can do no good?
Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
your own lips testify against you.
your own lips testify against you.
Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?
“Are you the first man who was born?
Or were you brought forth before the hills?
Or were you brought forth before the hills?
Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?
Have you listened in the council of God?
And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us?
What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that is not clear to us?
What do you understand that is not clear to us?
Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.
Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,
older than your father.
older than your father.
Are the consolations of God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?
Are the comforts of God too small for you,
or the word that deals gently with you?
or the word that deals gently with you?
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?
Why does your heart carry you away,
and why do your eyes flash,
and why do your eyes flash,
That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth?
that you turn your spirit against God
and bring such words out of your mouth?
and bring such words out of your mouth?
What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
What is man, that he can be pure?
Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:
How much less the abominable and corrupt, -- man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
a man who drinks injustice like water!
a man who drinks injustice like water!
I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;
“I will show you; hear me,
and what I have seen I will declare
and what I have seen I will declare
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;
(what wise men have told,
without hiding it from their fathers,
without hiding it from their fathers,
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
to whom alone the land was given,
and no stranger passed among them).
and no stranger passed among them).
All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.
The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,
through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.
Dreadful sounds are in his ears;
in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword.
He does not believe that he will return out of darkness,
and he is marked for the sword.
and he is marked for the sword.
He wandereth abroad for bread, -- where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.
distress and anguish terrify him;
they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:
Because he has stretched out his hand against God
and defies the Almighty,
and defies the Almighty,
He runneth against him, with [outstretched] neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;
running stubbornly against him
with a thickly bossed shield;
with a thickly bossed shield;
For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon [his] flanks.
because he has covered his face with his fat
and gathered fat upon his waist
and gathered fat upon his waist
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.
and has lived in desolate cities,
in houses that none should inhabit,
which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
in houses that none should inhabit,
which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth.
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 will not depart from darkness;
the flame will dry up his shoots,
and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.
the flame will dry up his shoots,
and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.
Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself,
for emptiness will be his payment.
for emptiness will be his payment.
It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.
It will be paid in full before his time,
and his branch will not be green.
and his branch will not be green.
He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.
He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine,
and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
For the company of the godless is barren,
and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
and fire consumes the tents of bribery.