King James Bible | English Standard Version |
1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: |
2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? | 2“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? |
3Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? | 3Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good? |
4Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. | 4But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God. |
5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. | 5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. |
6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. | 6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you. |
7Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? | 7“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills? |
8Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? | 8Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? |
9What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us? | 9What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us? |
10With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. | 10Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father. |
11Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? | 11Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you? |
12Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, | 12Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash, |
13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? | 13that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth? |
14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? | 14What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? |
15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. | 15Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight; |
16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? | 16how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water! |
17I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; | 17“I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare |
18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: | 18(what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers, |
19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. | 19to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them). |
20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. | 20The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless. |
21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. | 21Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him. |
22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. | 22He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword. |
23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. | 23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand; |
24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. | 24distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle. |
25For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. | 25Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty, |
26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: | 26running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield; |
27Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks. | 27because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist |
28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. | 28and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins; |
29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. | 29he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth; |
30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. | 30he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart. |
31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. | 31Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment. |
32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. | 32It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green. |
33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. | 33He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree. |
34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. | 34For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery. |
35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. | 35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.” |
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