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Job 15

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."

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 respondens autem Eliphaz Themanites dixit

2 numquid sapiens respondebit quasi in ventum loquens et implebit ardore stomachum suum

3 arguis verbis eum qui non est aequalis tui et loqueris quod tibi non expedit

4 quantum in te est evacuasti timorem et tulisti preces coram Deo

5 docuit enim iniquitas tua os tuum et imitaris linguam blasphemantium

6 condemnabit te os tuum et non ego et labia tua respondebunt tibi

7 numquid primus homo tu natus es et ante colles formatus

8 numquid consilium Dei audisti et inferior te erit eius sapientia

9 quid nosti quod ignoremus quid intellegis quod nesciamus

10 et senes et antiqui sunt in nobis multo vetustiores quam patres tui

11 numquid grande est ut consoletur te Deus sed verba tua prava hoc prohibent

12 quid te elevat cor tuum et quasi magna cogitans adtonitos habes oculos

13 quid tumet contra Deum spiritus tuus ut proferas de ore huiuscemodi sermones

14 quid est homo ut inmaculatus sit et ut iustus appareat natus de muliere

15 ecce inter sanctos eius nemo inmutabilis et caeli non sunt mundi in conspectu eius

16 quanto magis abominabilis et inutilis homo qui bibit quasi aquas iniquitatem

17 ostendam tibi audi me quod vidi narrabo tibi

18 sapientes confitentur et non abscondunt patres suos

19 quibus solis data est terra et non transibit alienus per eos

20 cunctis diebus suis impius superbit et numerus annorum incertus est tyrannidis eius

21 sonitus terroris semper in auribus illius et cum pax sit ille insidias suspicatur

22 non credit quod reverti possit de tenebris circumspectans undique gladium

23 cum se moverit ad quaerendum panem novit quod paratus sit in manu eius tenebrarum dies

24 terrebit eum tribulatio et angustia vallabit eum sicut regem qui praeparatur ad proelium

25 tetendit enim adversus Deum manum suam et contra Omnipotentem roboratus est

26 cucurrit adversus eum erecto collo et pingui cervice armatus est

27 operuit faciem eius crassitudo et de lateribus eius arvina dependet

28 habitavit in civitatibus desolatis et in domibus desertis quae in tumulos sunt redactae

29 non ditabitur nec perseverabit substantia eius nec mittet in terra radicem suam

30 non recedet de tenebris ramos eius arefaciet flamma et auferetur spiritu oris sui

31 non credat frustra errore deceptus quod aliquo pretio redimendus sit

32 antequam dies eius impleantur peribit et manus eius arescet

33 laedetur quasi vinea in primo flore botrus eius et quasi oliva proiciens florem suum

34 congregatio enim hypocritae sterilis et ignis devorabit tabernacula eorum qui munera libenter accipiunt

35 concepit dolorem et peperit iniquitatem et uterus eius praeparat dolos