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1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: |
2“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? | 2“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind? |
3Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good? | 3Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose? |
4But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God. | 4But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him. |
5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. | 5For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. |
6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you. | 6Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you. |
7“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills? | 7Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills? |
8Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? | 8Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself? |
9What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us? | 9What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us? |
10Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father. | 10Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father. |
11Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you? | 11Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you? |
12Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash, | 12Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash, |
13that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth? | 13as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth? |
14What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? | 14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? |
15Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight; | 15If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes, |
16how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water! | 16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water? |
17“I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare | 17Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen, |
18(what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers, | 18what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers, |
19to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them). | 19to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them. |
20The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless. | 20A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless. |
21Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him. | 21Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him. |
22He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword. | 22He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword. |
23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand; | 23He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand. |
24distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle. | 24Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack. |
25Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty, | 25For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty, |
26running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield; | 26rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield. |
27because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist | 27Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh, |
28and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins; | 28he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble. |
29he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth; | 29He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land. |
30he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart. | 30He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away. |
31Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment. | 31Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward. |
32It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green. | 32It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish. |
33He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree. | 33He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms. |
34For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery. | 34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. |
35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.” | 35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.” |
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