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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’s Second Response to Job
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,
“A wise man wouldn’t answer with such empty talk!
You are nothing but a windbag.
You are nothing but a windbag.
Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?
The wise don’t engage in empty chatter.
What good are such words?
What good are such words?
Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.
Have you no fear of God,
no reverence for him?
no reverence for him?
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
Your sins are telling your mouth what to say.
Your words are based on clever deception.
Your words are based on clever deception.
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.
Your own mouth condemns you, 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?
“Were you the first person ever born?
Were you born before the hills were made?
Were you born before the hills were made?
Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?
Were you listening at God’s secret council?
Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us?
What do you know that we don’t?
What do you understand that we do not?
What do you understand that we do not?
Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.
On our side are aged, gray-haired men
much older than your father!
much older than your father!
Are the consolations of God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?
“Is God’s comfort too little for you?
Is his gentle word not enough?
Is his gentle word not enough?
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?
That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth?
that you turn against God
and say all these evil things?
and say all these evil things?
What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Can any mortal be pure?
Can anyone born of a woman be just?
Can anyone born of a woman be just?
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 pure is a corrupt and sinful person
with a thirst for wickedness!
with a thirst for wickedness!
I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;
“If you will listen, I will show you.
I will answer you from my own experience.
I will answer you from my own experience.
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;
And it is confirmed by the reports of wise men
who have heard the same thing from their fathers —
who have heard the same thing from their fathers —
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
from those to whom the land was given
long before any foreigners arrived.
long before any foreigners arrived.
All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.
“The wicked writhe in pain throughout their lives.
Years of trouble are stored up for the ruthless.
Years of trouble are stored up for the ruthless.
The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.
The sound of terror rings in their ears,
and even on good days they fear the attack of the destroyer.
and even on good days they fear the attack of the destroyer.
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword.
They dare not go out into the darkness
for fear they will be murdered.
for fear they will be murdered.
He wandereth abroad for bread, -- where may it be? He knoweth that the 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.
That dark day terrifies them.
They live in distress and anguish,
like a king preparing for battle.
They live in distress and anguish,
like a king preparing for battle.
For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:
For they shake their fists at God,
defying the Almighty.
defying the Almighty.
He runneth against him, with [outstretched] neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;
Holding their strong shields,
they defiantly charge against him.
they defiantly charge against him.
For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon [his] flanks.
“These wicked people are heavy and prosperous;
their waists bulge with fat.
their waists bulge with fat.
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.
But their cities will be ruined.
They will live in abandoned houses
that are ready to tumble down.
They will live in abandoned houses
that are ready to tumble down.
He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth.
Their riches will not last,
and their wealth will not endure.
Their possessions will no longer spread across the horizon.
and their wealth will not endure.
Their possessions will no longer spread across the horizon.
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.
“They will not escape the darkness.
The burning sun will wither their shoots,
and the breath of God will destroy them.
The burning sun will wither their shoots,
and the breath of God will destroy them.
Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;
Let them no longer fool themselves by trusting in empty riches,
for emptiness will be their only reward.
for emptiness will be their only reward.
It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.
They will be cut down in the prime of life;
their branches will never again be green.
their branches will never again be green.
He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.
They will be like a vine whose grapes are harvested too early,
like an olive tree that loses its blossoms before the fruit can form.
like an olive tree that loses its blossoms before the fruit can form.
For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
For the godless are barren.
Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn.
Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn.