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Eliphaz Accuses Job of Folly
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,
Should he reason with unprofitable talk,
Or by speeches with which he can do no good?
Or by speeches with which he can do no good?
Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?
Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation 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 hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
Yes, your own lips testify against you.
Yes, your own lips testify against you.
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.
“Are you the first man who was born?
Or were you made before the hills?
Or were you made before the hills?
Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?
Have you heard the counsel of God?
Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?
What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that is not in us?
What do you understand that is not in 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,
Much older than your father.
Much older than your father.
Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.
Are the consolations of God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?
That you turn your spirit against God,
And let such words go out of your mouth?
And let such words go out of your mouth?
That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth?
“What is man, that he could be pure?
And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?
And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?
What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
If God puts no trust in His saints,
And the heavens are not pure in His sight,
And the heavens are not pure in His sight,
Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:
How much less man, who is abominable and filthy,
Who drinks iniquity like water!
Who drinks iniquity like water!
How much less the abominable and corrupt, -- man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
“I will tell you, hear me;
What I have seen I will declare,
What I have seen I will declare,
I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;
What wise men have told,
Not hiding anything received from their fathers,
Not hiding anything received from their fathers,
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
The wicked man writhes with pain all his days,
And the number of years is hidden from the oppressor.
And the number of years is hidden from the oppressor.
All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.
The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.
He does not believe that he will return from darkness,
For a sword is waiting for him.
For a sword is waiting for him.
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword.
He wanders about 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, -- 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.
For he stretches out his hand against God,
And acts defiantly against the Almighty,
And acts defiantly against the Almighty,
For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:
Running stubbornly against Him
With his strong, embossed shield.
With his strong, embossed shield.
He runneth against him, with [outstretched] neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;
“Though he has covered his face with his fatness,
And made his waist heavy with fat,
And made his waist heavy with fat,
For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon [his] flanks.
He dwells in desolate cities,
In houses which no one inhabits,
Which are destined to become ruins.
In houses which no one inhabits,
Which are destined to become ruins.
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.
He will not be rich,
Nor will his wealth continue,
Nor will his possessions overspread the earth.
Nor will his wealth continue,
Nor will his possessions overspread the earth.
He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth.
He will not depart from darkness;
The flame will dry out his branches,
And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
The flame will dry out his branches,
And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
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 futile things, deceiving himself,
For futility will be his reward.
For futility will be his reward.
Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;
It will be accomplished before his time,
And his branch will not be green.
And his branch will not be green.
It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.
He will shake off his unripe grape like a vine,
And cast off his blossom like an olive tree.
And cast off his blossom like an olive tree.
He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.
For the company of hypocrites will be barren,
And fire will consume the tents of bribery.
And fire will consume the tents of bribery.
For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.