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Job 15

Good News Translation GNT

1 Empty words, Job!

2 Empty words!

3 No one who is wise would talk the way you do or defend himself with such meaningless words.

4 If you had your way, no one would fear God; no one would pray to him.

5 Your wickedness is evident by what you say; you are trying to hide behind clever words.

6 There is no need for me to condemn you; you are condemned by every word you speak.

7 Do you think you were the first person born? Were you there when God made the mountains?

8 Did you overhear the plans God made? Does human wisdom belong to you alone?

9 There is nothing you know that we don't know.

10 We learned our wisdom from gray-haired people - those born before your father.

11 God offers you comfort; why still reject it? We have spoken for him with calm, even words.

12 But you are excited and glare at us in anger.

13 You are angry with God and denounce him.

14 Can any human being be really pure? Can anyone be right with God?

15 Why, God does not trust even his angels; even they are not pure in his sight.

16 And we drink evil as if it were water; yes, we are corrupt; we are worthless.

17 Now listen, Job, to what I know.

18 Those who are wise have taught me truths which they learned from their ancestors, and they kept no secrets hidden.

19 Their land was free from foreigners; there was no one to lead them away from God.

20 The wicked who oppress others will be in torment as long as they live.

21 Voices of terror will scream in their ears, and robbers attack when they think they are safe.

22 They have no hope of escaping from darkness, for somewhere a sword is waiting to kill them,

23 and vultures are waiting to eat their corpses. They know their future is dark;

24 disaster, like a powerful king, is waiting to attack them.

25 That is the fate of those who shake their fists at God and defy the Almighty.

26 They are proud and rebellious; they stubbornly hold up their shields and rush to fight against God.

28 They are the ones who captured cities and seized houses whose owners had fled, but war will destroy those cities and houses.

29 They will not remain rich for long; nothing they own will last. Even their shadows will vanish,

30 and they will not escape from darkness. They will be like trees whose branches are burned by fire, whose blossoms are blown away by the wind.

31 If they are foolish enough to trust in evil, then evil will be their reward.

32 Before their time is up they will wither, wither like a branch and never be green again.

33 They will be like vines that lose their unripe grapes; like olive trees that drop their blossoms.

34 There will be no descendants for godless people, and fire will destroy the homes built by bribery.

35 These are the ones who plan trouble and do evil; their hearts are always full of deceit.

World English Bible WEB

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

2 "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches with which he can do no good?

4 Yes, you do away with fear, And hinder devotion before God.

5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.

6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.

7 "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

9 What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than your father.

11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, Even the word that is gentle toward you?

12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

13 That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?

14 What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

16 How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!

17 "I will show you, listen to me; That which I have seen I will declare:

18 (Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hidden it;

19 To whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):

20 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

21 A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

22 He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.

23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

24 Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, And behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

26 He runs at him with a stiff neck, With the thick shields of his bucklers;

28 He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.

29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

30 He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; For emptiness shall be his reward.

32 It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

34 For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."