Verse 3
Job 15:3
Bible in Basic English
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Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?
Original Language Text
hebrew
הוֹכֵ֣חַ בְּ֭/דָבָר לֹ֣א יִסְכּ֑וֹן וּ֝/מִלִּ֗ים לֹא יוֹעִ֥יל בָּֽ/ם
English Translation
Rebuke in words will not remain, and words will not help them.
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Chapter 15 Context
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And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,
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Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?
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Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?
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Truly, you make the fear of God (Elohim) without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before Go...
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For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
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It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lip...
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Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?
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Were you present at the secret meeting of God (Elohim)? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?
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What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?
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With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.
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Are the comforts of God (Elohim) not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?
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Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;
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So that you are turning your spirit against God (Elohim), and letting such words go out of your mout...
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What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
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Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;
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How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
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Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen:
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(The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;
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For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:)
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The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.
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A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:
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He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;
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He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of tro...
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He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:
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Because his hand is stretched out against God (Elohim), and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler...
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Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for...
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Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;
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And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man h...
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He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain ar...
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He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his...
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Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.
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His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.
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He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.
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For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for r...
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Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame...
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