Verse 19
Job 15:19
Literal Standard Version
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To them alone was the land given, || And a stranger did not pass over into their midst:
Original Language Text
hebrew
לָ/הֶ֣ם לְ֭/בַדָּ/ם נִתְּנָ֣ה הָ/אָ֑רֶץ וְ/לֹא עָ֖בַר זָ֣ר בְּ/תוֹכָֽ/ם
English Translation
To them alone was the land given, and no stranger passed through them.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 15 Context
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And Eliphaz the Temanite answers and says:
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“Does a wise man answer with vain knowledge? And fill his belly with an east wind?
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To reason with a word not useful? And speeches—no profit in them?
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Indeed, you make reverence void, and diminish meditation before God (Elohim).
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For your mouth teaches your iniquity, || And you choose the tongue of the cunning.
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Your mouth declares you wicked, and not I, || And your lips testify against you.
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Are you the first man born? And were you formed before the heights?
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Do you hear of the secret counsel of God (Elohim)? And withdraw wisdom to you?
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What have you known, and we do not know? What do you understand, and it is not with us?
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Both the gray-headed || And the very aged are among us—Greater than your father in days.
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Are the comforts of God (Elohim) too few for you? And a gentle word is with you,
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Why does your heart take you away? And why are your eyes high?
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Do you turn your spirit against God (Elohim)? And have brought out words from your mouth:
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What is man that he is pure, || And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
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Behold, He puts no credence in His holy ones, || And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
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Also—surely abominable and filthy || Is man drinking perverseness as water.
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I show you—listen to me—And this I have seen and declare,
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Which the wise declare—And have not hid—from their fathers.
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To them alone was the land given, || And a stranger did not pass over into their midst:
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All the days of the wicked he is paining himself, || And few years have been laid up for the terribl...
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A fearful voice is in his ears, || In peace a destroyer comes to him.
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He does not believe to return from darkness, || And he watches for the sword.
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He is wandering for bread: Where is it? He has known that ready at his hand || Is a day of darkness.
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Adversity and distress terrify him, || They prevail over him as a king ready for a boaster.
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For he stretched out his hand against God (Elohim), || And against the Mighty he makes himself might...
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He runs to Him with a neck, || With thick bosses of his shields.
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For he has covered his face with his fat, || And makes vigor over his confidence.
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And he inhabits cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, || That have been ready to become heaps.
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He is not rich, nor does his wealth rise, || Nor does he stretch out their continuance on earth.
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He does not turn aside from darkness, || A flame dries up his tender branch, || And he turns aside a...
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Do not let him put credence in vanity, || He has been deceived, || For vanity is his exchange.
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It is not completed in his day, || And his bending branch is not green.
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He shakes off his unripe fruit as a vine, || And casts off his blossom as an olive.
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For the company of the profane is barren, || And fire has consumed tents of bribery.
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To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, || Even their heart prepares deceit.”
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