Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
2 Will a wise man give for answer a breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,
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"Should the wise answer with windy knowledge, and fill themselves with the east wind?
3 reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit?
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Should they argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which they can do no good?
4 Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?
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But you are doing away with the fear of God, and hindering meditation before God.
5 Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.
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For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
6 Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: and thy lips shall testify against thee.
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Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.
7 What! art thou the first man that was born? or wert thou established before the hills?
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"Are you the firstborn of the human race? Were you brought forth 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?
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Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 For what knowest thou, that, we know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also?
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What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
10 Truly among us both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than thy father.
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The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, those older than your father.
11 Thou hast been scourged for few of thy sins: thou hast spoken haughtily extravagantly.
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Are the consolations of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?
12 What has thine heart dared? or what have thine eyes ,
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Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,
13 that thou hast vented rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from mouth?
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so that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
14 For who, being a mortal, that he shall be blameless? or, born of a woman, that he should be just?
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What are mortals, that they can be clean? Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?
15 Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.
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God puts no trust even in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;
16 Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.
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how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!
17 But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have seen;
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"I will show you; listen to me; what I have seen I will declare—
18 things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.
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what sages have told, and their ancestors have not hidden,
19 To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them.
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to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20 All the life of the ungodly in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.
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The wicked writhe in pain all their days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
21 And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.
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Terrifying sounds are in their ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon them.
22 Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.
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They despair of returning from darkness, and they are destined for 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.
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They wander abroad for bread, saying, "Where is it?' They know that a day of darkness is ready at hand;
24 Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank.
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distress and anguish terrify them; they prevail against them, like a king prepared for battle.
25 For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.
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Because they stretched out their hands against God, and bid defiance to the Almighty,
26 And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.
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running stubbornly against him with a thick-bossed shield;
27 For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.
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because they have covered their faces with their fat, and gathered fat upon their loins,
28 And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.
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they will live in desolate cities, in houses that no one should inhabit, houses destined to become heaps of ruins;
29 Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.
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they will not be rich, and their wealth will not endure, nor will they strike root in the earth;
30 Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.
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they will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up their shoots, and their blossom will be swept away by the wind.
31 Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.
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Let them not trust in emptiness, deceiving themselves; for emptiness will be their recompense.
32 His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.
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It will be paid in full before their time, and their branch will not be green.
33 And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.
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They will shake off their unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off their blossoms, like the olive tree.
34 For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.
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For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
35 And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.
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They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their heart prepares deceit."
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