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Eliphaz’s Second Response to Job
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
“A wise man wouldn’t answer with such empty talk!
You are nothing but a windbag.
You are nothing but a windbag.
Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,
The wise don’t engage in empty chatter.
What good are such words?
What good are such words?
Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?
Have you no fear of God,
no reverence for him?
no reverence for him?
Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.
Your sins are telling your mouth what to say.
Your words are based on clever deception.
Your words are based on clever deception.
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
Your own mouth condemns you, not I.
Your own lips testify against you.
Your own lips testify against you.
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.
“Were you the first person ever born?
Were you born before the hills were made?
Were you born before the hills were made?
Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?
Were you listening at God’s secret council?
Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?
What do you know that we don’t?
What do you understand that we do not?
What do you understand that we do not?
What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us?
On our side are aged, gray-haired men
much older than your father!
much older than your father!
Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.
“Is God’s comfort too little for you?
Is his gentle word not enough?
Is his gentle word not enough?
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 against God
and say all these evil things?
and say all these evil things?
That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth?
Can any mortal be pure?
Can anyone born of a woman be just?
Can anyone born of a woman be just?
What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:
How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person
with a thirst for wickedness!
with a thirst for wickedness!
How much less the abominable and corrupt, -- man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
“If you will listen, I will show you.
I will answer you from my own experience.
I will answer you from my own experience.
I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;
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 —
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;
from those to whom the land was given
long before any foreigners arrived.
long before any foreigners arrived.
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
“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.
All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.
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.
The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.
They dare not go out into the darkness
for fear they will be murdered.
for fear they will be murdered.
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword.
He wandereth abroad for bread, -- where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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.
Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.
For they shake their fists at God,
defying the Almighty.
defying the Almighty.
For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:
Holding their strong shields,
they defiantly charge against him.
they defiantly charge against him.
He runneth against him, with [outstretched] neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;
“These wicked people are heavy and prosperous;
their waists bulge with fat.
their waists bulge with fat.
For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon [his] flanks.
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.
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.
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 become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth.
“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.
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 them no longer fool themselves by trusting in empty riches,
for emptiness will be their only reward.
for emptiness will be their only reward.
Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;
They will be cut down in the prime of life;
their branches will never again be green.
their branches will never again be green.
It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.
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.
He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.
For the godless are barren.
Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn.
Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn.
For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.