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Job 15

Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX

1 Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,

2 Will a wise man give for answer a breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,

3 reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit?

4 Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?

5 Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.

6 Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: and thy lips shall testify against thee.

7 What! art thou the first man that was born? or wert thou established before the hills?

8 Or hast thou heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used thee as counsellor? and has wisdom come to thee?

9 For what knowest thou, that, we know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also?

10 Truly among us both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than thy father.

11 Thou hast been scourged for few of thy sins: thou hast spoken haughtily extravagantly.

12 What has thine heart dared? or what have thine eyes ,

13 that thou hast vented rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from mouth?

14 For who, being a mortal, that he shall be blameless? or, born of a woman, that he should be just?

15 Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.

16 Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

17 But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have seen;

18 things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.

19 To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them.

20 All the life of the ungodly in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.

21 And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.

22 Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.

23 And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.

24 Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank.

25 For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.

26 And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.

27 For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.

28 And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.

29 Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.

30 Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.

31 Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.

32 His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.

33 And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.

34 For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.

35 And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.

New International Version NIV

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 “Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?

3 Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?

4 But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.

5 Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.

6 Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.

7 “Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

8 Do you listen in on God’s council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?

9 What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?

10 The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.

11 Are God’s consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?

12 Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

13 so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?

14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?

15 If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

16 how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!

17 “Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen,

18 what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors

19 (to whom alone the land was given when no foreigners moved among them):

20 All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.

21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.

22 He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness; he is marked for the sword.

23 He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

24 Distress and anguish fill him with terror; troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,

25 because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

26 defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.

27 “Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,

28 he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.

29 He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

30 He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.

31 Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless, for he will get nothing in return.

32 Before his time he will wither, and his branches will not flourish.

33 He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.

34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.

35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit.”