Verse 1
Job 15:1
World English Bible
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ֭/יַּעַן אֱלִיפַ֥ז הַֽ/תֵּימָנִ֗י וַ/יֹּאמַֽר
English Translation
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 15 Context
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
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“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge,
and fill himself with the east wind?
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Should he reason with unprofitable talk,
or with speeches with which he can do no good?
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Yes, you do away with fear,
and hinder devotion before God (Elohim).
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For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the language of the crafty.
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Your own mouth condemns you, and not I.
Yes, your own lips testify against you.
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“Are you the first man who was born?
Or were you brought out before the hills?
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Have you heard the secret counsel of God (Elohim)?
Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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What do you know, that we don’t know?
What do you understand, which is not in us?
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With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men,
much elder than your father.
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Are the consolations of God (Elohim) too small for you,
even the word that is gentle toward you?
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Why does your heart carry you away?
Why do your eyes flash,
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That you turn your spirit against God (Elohim),
and let such words go out of your mouth?
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What is man, that he should be clean?
What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous...
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Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones.
Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
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how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
a man who drinks iniquity like water!
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“I will show you, listen to me;
that which I have seen I will declare
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(which wise men have told by their fathers,
and have not hidden it;
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to whom alone the land was given,
and no stranger passed among them):
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the wicked man writhes in pain all his days,
even the number of years that are laid up for the oppre...
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A sound of terrors is in his ears.
In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
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He doesn’t believe that he shall return out of darkness.
He is waited for by the sword.
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He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hi...
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Distress and anguish make him afraid.
They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
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Because he has stretched out his hand against God (Elohim),
and behaves himself proudly against the...
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he runs at him with a stiff neck,
with the thick shields of his bucklers;
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because he has covered his face with his fatness,
and gathered fat on his thighs.
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He has lived in desolate cities,
in houses which no one inhabited,
which were ready to become heaps....
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He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,
neither shall their possessions be exten...
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He shall not depart out of darkness.
The flame shall dry up his branches.
By the breath of God (Eloh...
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Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself;
for emptiness shall be his reward.
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It shall be accomplished before his time.
His branch shall not be green.
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He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine,
and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.
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For the company of the godless shall be barren,
and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
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They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity.
Their heart prepares deceit.”
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