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| The Book of Job. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
| XV |
| [1] | THEN answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, |
| [2] | Should a wise man make answer with vain 1 knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind? |
| [3] | Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? |
| [4] | Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest 2 devotion 3 before God. |
| [5] | For thine 4 iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. |
| [6] | Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee. |
| [7] | Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills? |
| [8] | Hast 5 thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself? |
| [9] | What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us? |
| [10] | With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father. |
| [11] | Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even 6 the word that is gentle toward thee? |
| [12] | Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash, |
| [13] | That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth? |
| [14] | What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? |
| [15] | Behold he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight: |
| [16] | How much less one 7 that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water! |
| [17] | I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare |
| [18] | (Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it; |
| [19] | Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them): |
| [20] | The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even 8 the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. |
| [21] | A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. |
| [22] | He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword. |
| [23] | He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. |
| [24] | Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. |
| [25] | Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth 9 himself proudly against the Almighty; |
| [26] | He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, With 10 the thick bosses of his bucklers; |
| [27] | Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins; |
| [28] | And he hath dwelt in desolate 11 cities, In houses which no man inhabited, 12 Which were ready to become heaps; |
| [29] | He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their 13 possessions be extended on the earth. |
| [30] | He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of God’s 14 mouth shall he go away. |
| [31] | Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense. |
| [32] | It shall be accomplished 15 before his time, And his branch shall not be green. |
| [33] | He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree. |
| [34] | For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery. |
| [35] | They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit. |
| Note 1. Heb. knowledge of wind. [back] |
| Note 2. Heb. diminishest. [back] |
| Note 3. Or, meditation. [back] |
| Note 4. Or, thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity. [back] |
| Note 5. Or, Dost thou hearken in the council. [back] |
| Note 6. Or, Or is there any secret thing with thee?. [back] |
| Note 7. Or, that which is. [back] |
| Note 8. Or, And years that are numbered are laid up &c. [back] |
| Note 9. Or, biddeth defiance to. [back] |
| Note 10. Or, Upon. [back] |
| Note 11. Heb. cut off. [back] |
| Note 12. Or, would inhabit. [back] |
| Note 13. Or, their produce bend to the earth. [back] |
| Note 14. Heb. his. [back] |
| Note 15. Or, paid in full. [back] |
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