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Job 15

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,

2 Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?

3 Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?

4 Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

5 For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

6 It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

7 Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

8 Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?

9 What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

10 With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

11 Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?

12 Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

15 Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;

16 How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

17 Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen:

18 (The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;

19 For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:)

20 The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.

21 A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:

22 He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;

23 He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:

24 He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

25 Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,

26 Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,

27 Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;

28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

31 Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

32 His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.

33 He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.

34 For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.

35 Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 5 Then answered Eliphaz the Temani, and said,

2 Should a chacham (wise man) utter vain knowledge, and fill his inner being with the east wind?

3 Should he reason with unprofitable davar (talk)? Or with speeches wherewith no good is done?

4 Yea, thou makest void yireh [Elohim], and doth diminish si’akh (meditation) before El.

5 For thy mouth uttereth thine avon, and thou choosest the leshon arumim (tongue of the crafty).

6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and loh Ani (not I); yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

7 Art thou harishon adam (the first man) that was born? Or wast thou made before the hills?

8 Hast thou attended to the sod Eloah (counsel of G-d)? And dost thou limit chochmah to thyself?

9 Of what dost thou have da’as, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

10 Both the grayheaded and very aged men are among us, much elder than avicha.

11 Are the tanechumot El (consolations of G-d) not enough for thee? Or the davar that deals gently with thee?

12 Why doth thine lev carry thee away? And why do thy eyes flash,

13 That thou ventest thy ruach against El (G-d), and lettest such words pour out of thy mouth?

14 What is enosh, that he should be pure [in the sight of Hashem]? And he which is born of an isha, that yitzdak (he should be in the right)?

15 If He trusteth not His Kadoshim; yea, Shomayim is not pure in His eyes.

16 How much more vile and corrupt is ish, which drinketh iniquity like mayim?

17 I will show thee, shema to me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

18 Things which chachamim declare from their avot without concealment;

19 Unto whom alone ha’aretz was given, and no zar passed among them.

20 The reshah travaileth with pain all his yamim, and numbered shanim are reserved for the oppressor.

21 A dreadful sound is in his oznayim; during shalom the shoded (destroyer) shall come upon him.

22 He believeth not in a return from choshech, and he is marked for the cherev.

23 He wandereth about after lechem, saying, Where is it? He has da’as the Yom Choshech is near at hand for him.

24 Distress and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall seize him as a melech poised for battle.

25 For he stretcheth out his yad against El (G-d), and with insolence vaunts himself against Shaddai.

26 He charges against Him, with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his mogen (shield);

27 Though he covereth his panim with his fatness, and addeth fat on his flanks;

28 And he dwelleth in desolate towns, and in batim (houses) which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to crumble to rubble.

29 He shall not be osher, neither shall his substance continue; neither shall their possessions spread over ha’aretz.

30 He shall not escape from choshech; the flame shall wither his branches, and in the ruach of his mouth shall he perish.

31 Let not him that is deceived trust in shav (vanity); for shav shall be his recompense.

32 His Yom is not yet; then it is accomplished, and his branch shall not flourish.

33 He shall shake off his unripe grape like the gefen, and shall cast off his blossom like the zayit (olive tree).

34 For the Adat Chanef (congregation of hypocrites) shall be barren, and eish shall consume the ohalim of bribery.

35 They conceive amal (trouble), and give birth to evil, and their belly worketh mirmar (deceit).