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Eliphaz’s Second Response to Job
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Eliphaz Accuses: Job Does Not Fear God
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
Then 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?
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?
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?
Have you no fear of God,
no reverence for him?
no reverence for him?
Your sins are telling your mouth what to say.
Your words are based on clever deception.
Your words are based on clever deception.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Your own mouth condemns you, not I.
Your own lips testify against you.
Your own lips testify against you.
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
your own lips testify against you.
your own lips testify against you.
“Were you the first person ever born?
Were you born before the hills were made?
Were you born before the hills were made?
“Are you the first man who was born?
Or were you brought forth before the hills?
Or were you 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?
Have you listened in the council of God?
And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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 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?
On our side are aged, gray-haired men
much older than your father!
much older than your father!
Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,
older than your father.
older than your father.
“Is God’s comfort too little for you?
Is his gentle word not enough?
Is his gentle word not enough?
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 does your heart carry you away,
and why do your eyes flash,
and why do your eyes flash,
that you turn against God
and say all these evil things?
and say all these evil things?
that you turn your spirit against God
and bring such words out of your mouth?
and bring such words out of your 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 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?
How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person
with a thirst for wickedness!
with a thirst for wickedness!
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
a man who drinks injustice like water!
a man who drinks injustice 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 show you; hear me,
and what I have seen I will declare
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 —
(what wise men have told,
without hiding it from their fathers,
without hiding it from their fathers,
from those to whom the land was given
long before any foreigners arrived.
long before any foreigners arrived.
to whom alone the land was given,
and no stranger passed among them).
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.
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 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.
Dreadful sounds are in his ears;
in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
They dare not go out into the darkness
for fear they will be murdered.
for fear they will be murdered.
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 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;
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 terrify him;
they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
For they shake their fists at God,
defying the Almighty.
defying the Almighty.
Because he has stretched out his hand against God
and defies the Almighty,
and defies the Almighty,
Holding their strong shields,
they defiantly charge against him.
they defiantly charge against him.
running stubbornly against him
with a thickly bossed shield;
with a thickly bossed shield;
“These wicked people are heavy and prosperous;
their waists bulge with fat.
their waists bulge with fat.
because he has covered his face with his fat
and gathered fat upon his waist
and gathered fat upon his waist
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 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;
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.
“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 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 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 emptiness, deceiving himself,
for emptiness will be his payment.
for emptiness will be his payment.
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 will be paid in full before his time,
and his branch will not be green.
and his branch will 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 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 godless are barren.
Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn.
Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn.
For the company of the godless is barren,
and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
and fire consumes the tents of bribery.