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Job 15

Common English Bible CEB

1 Eliphaz answered:

2 Will the wise respond with windy knowledge and fill their belly with the east wind?

3 Will they argue with a word that has no benefit and with unprofitable words?

4 You are truly making religion ineffective and restraining meditation before God.

5 Your mouth multiplies your sins a thousand times; you opt for a clever tongue.

6 Your mouth condemns you, not I; your lips argue against you.

7 Were you born the first Adam, brought forth before the hills?

8 Did you listen in God's council; is wisdom limited to you?

9 What do you know that we don't know; what do you understand that isn't among us?

10 Both the graybeard and the aged are with us; those much older than your father.

11 Are God's comforts not enough for you, a word spoken gently with you?

12 Why has your mind seized you, why have your eyes flashed,

13 so that you return your breath to God and utter such words from your mouth?

14 What are humans that they might be pure, and those born of woman that they might be innocent?

15 If he doesn't trust his holy ones and the heavens aren't pure in his eyes,

16 how much less those who are abominable and corrupt, for they drink sin like water.

17 Listen to me; I will argue with you; what I've seen, I will declare to you;

18 what the wise have told and have not concealed from their family,

19 to whom alone the earth was given and no stranger passed in their midst.

20 All the days of the wicked are painful; the number of years reserved for the hateful;

21 a sound of terror pierces their ears; when safe, raiders overtake them.

22 They can't count on turning away from darkness; they are destined for a sword.

23 They wander about for bread. "Where is it?" They know that their day of darkness is fixed.

24 Adversity and stress scare them, master them like a king ready to strike;

25 for they raise a fist against God and try to overpower the Almighty.

26 They run toward him aggressively, with a massive and strong shield.

27 They cover their face with grease and make their loins gross.

28 They lived in ruined cities, unoccupied houses that turn to rubble.

29 They won't get rich; their wealth won't last; their property won't extend over the earth.

30 They can't turn away from darkness; a flame will dry out their shoots, and they will be taken away by the wind from his mouth.

31 They shouldn't trust in what has no worth, for their reward will be worthless.

32 Before their branch is formed, before it is green,

33 like the vine, they will drop early grapes and cast off their blossoms like the olive.

34 The ruthless gang is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribers.

35 They conceive toil and give birth to sorrow; their belly establishes deceit.

The Message Bible MSG

1 Eliphaz of Teman spoke a second time:

2 "If you were truly wise, would you sound so much like a windbag, belching hot air?

3 Would you talk nonsense in the middle of a serious argument, babbling baloney?

4 Look at you! You trivialize religion, turn spiritual conversation into empty gossip.

5 It's your sin that taught you to talk this way. You chose an education in fraud.

6 Your own words have exposed your guilt. It's nothing I've said - you've incriminated yourself!

7 Do you think you're the first person to have to deal with these things? Have you been around as long as the hills?

8 Were you listening in when God planned all this? Do you think you're the only one who knows anything?

9 What do you know that we don't know? What insights do you have that we've missed?

10 Gray beards and white hair back us up - old folks who've been around a lot longer than you.

11 Are God's promises not enough for you, spoken so gently and tenderly?

12 Why do you let your emotions take over, lashing out and spitting fire,

13 Pitting your whole being against God by letting words like this come out of your mouth?

14 Do you think it's possible for any mere mortal to be sinless in God's sight, for anyone born of a human mother to get it all together?

15 Why, God can't even trust his holy angels. He sees the flaws in the very heavens themselves,

16 So how much less we humans, smelly and foul, who lap up evil like water?

17 "I've a thing or two to tell you, so listen up! I'm letting you in on my views;

18 It's what wise men and women have always taught, holding nothing back from what they were taught

19 By their parents, back in the days when they had this land all to themselves:

20 Those who live by their own rules, not God's, can expect nothing but trouble, and the longer they live, the worse it gets.

21 Every little sound terrifies them. Just when they think they have it made, disaster strikes.

22 They despair of things ever getting better - they're on the list of people for whom things always turn out for the worst.

23 They wander here and there, never knowing where the next meal is coming from - every day is doomsday!

24 They live in constant terror, always with their backs up against the wall

25 Because they insist on shaking their fists at God, defying God Almighty to his face,

26 Always and ever at odds with God, always on the defensive.

27 "Even if they're the picture of health, trim and fit and youthful,

28 They'll end up living in a ghost town sleeping in a hovel not fit for a dog, a ramshackle shack.

29 They'll never get ahead, never amount to a hill of beans.

30 And then death - don't think they'll escape that! They'll end up shriveled weeds, brought down by a puff of God's breath.

31 There's a lesson here: Whoever invests in lies, gets lies for interest,

32 Paid in full before the due date. Some investment!

33 They'll be like fruit frost-killed before it ripens, like buds sheared off before they bloom.

34 The godless are fruitless - a barren crew; a life built on bribes goes up in smoke.

35 They have sex with sin and give birth to evil. Their lives are wombs for breeding deceit."