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| [1]And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: -- |
[1]Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, |
| [2]Doth a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill [with] an east wind his belly? |
[2]Shall a wise man speak words of the wind, and fill his belly with the east wind? |
| [3]To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them? |
[3]Shall he dispute with words not comely? Or with talk that is not profitable? |
| [4]Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God. |
[4]Surely thou hast cast off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. |
| [5]For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile. |
[5]For thy mouth declareth thine iniquity, seeing thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty. |
| [6]Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee. |
[6]Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lips testify against thee. |
| [7]The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed? |
[7]Art thou the first man, that was born? And wast thou made before the hills? |
| [8]Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom? |
[8]Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God, and dost thou restrain wisdom to thee? |
| [9]What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us? |
[9]What knowest thou that we know not? And understandest that is not in us? |
| [10]Both the gray-headed And the very aged [are] among us -- Greater than thy father [in] days. |
[10]With us are both ancient and very aged men, far older than thy father. |
| [11]Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word [is] with thee, |
[11]Seem the consolations of God small unto thee? Is this thing strange unto thee? |
| [12]What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high? |
[12]Why doth thine heart take thee away, and what do thine eyes mean, |
| [13]For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth: |
[13]That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such words out of thy mouth? |
| [14]What [is] man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman? |
[14]What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of woman, that he should be just? |
| [15]Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes. |
[15]Behold, he found no steadfastness in his saints: yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. |
| [16]Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness. |
[16]How much more is man abominable, and filthy, which drinketh iniquity like water? |
| [17]I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare: |
[17]I will tell thee: hear me, and I will declare that which I have seen: |
| [18]Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers. |
[18]Which wise men have told, as they have heard of their fathers, and have not kept it secret: |
| [19]To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst: |
[19]To whom alone the land was given and no stranger passed through them. |
| [20]`All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one. |
[20]The wicked man is continually as one that travaileth of child, and the number of years is hid from the tyrant. |
| [21]A fearful voice [is] in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him. |
[21]A sound of fear is in his ears , and in his prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. |
| [22]He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched [is] he for the sword. |
[22]He believeth not to return out of darkness: for he seeth the sword before him. |
| [23]He is wandering for bread -- `Where [is] it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness. |
[23]He wandereth to and fro for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkness is prepared at hand. |
| [24]Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster. |
[24]Affliction and anguish shall make him afraid: they shall prevail against him as a king ready to the battle. |
| [25]For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty. |
[25]For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and made himself strong against the Almighty. |
| [26]He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields. |
[26]Therefore God shall run upon him, even upon his neck, and against the most thick part of his shield. |
| [27]For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over [his] confidence. |
[27]Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and hath collops in his flank. |
| [28]And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps. |
[28]Though he dwell in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heaps, |
| [29]He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance. |
[29]He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth. |
| [30]He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth! |
[30]He shall never depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall go away with the breath of his mouth. |
| [31]Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence. |
[31]He believeth not that he erreth in vanity: therefore vanity shall be his change. |
| [32]Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green. |
[32]His branch shall not be green, but shall be cut off before his day. |
| [33]He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom. |
[33]God shall destroy him as the vine her sour grape, and shall cast him off, as the olive doth her flower. |
| [34]For the company of the profane [is] gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery. |
[34]For the congregation of the hypocrite shall be desolate, and fire shall devour the houses of bribes. |
| [35]To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit. |
[35]For they conceive mischief and bring forth vanity, and their belly hath prepared deceit. |