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Eliphaz Accuses: Job Does Not Fear God
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge,
and fill his belly with the east wind?
and fill his belly with the east wind?
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
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?
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
your own lips testify against you.
your own lips testify against you.
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
“Are you the first man who was born?
Or were you brought forth before the hills?
Or were you brought forth before the hills?
Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
Have you listened in the council of God?
And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
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?
What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,
older than your father.
older than your father.
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
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?
Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
Why does your heart carry you away,
and why do your eyes flash,
and why do your eyes flash,
Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
that you turn your spirit against God
and bring such words out of your mouth?
and bring such words out of your mouth?
That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
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?
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
a man who drinks injustice like water!
a man who drinks injustice like water!
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
“I will show you; hear me,
and what I have seen I will declare
and what I have seen I will declare
I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
(what wise men have told,
without hiding it from their fathers,
without hiding it from their fathers,
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
to whom alone the land was given,
and no stranger passed among them).
and no stranger passed among them).
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
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 wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
Dreadful sounds are in his ears;
in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
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 believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
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;
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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.
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Because he has stretched out his hand against God
and defies the Almighty,
and defies the Almighty,
For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
running stubbornly against him
with a thickly bossed shield;
with a thickly bossed shield;
He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
because he has covered his face with his fat
and gathered fat upon his waist
and gathered fat upon his waist
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
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;
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
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.
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.
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself,
for emptiness will be his payment.
for emptiness will be his payment.
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
It will be paid in full before his time,
and his branch will not be green.
and his branch will not be green.
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
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.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
For the company of the godless is barren,
and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.