Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God 1 ULT And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 ULT “Will the wise answer{ with} knowledge of wind and fill his belly{ with} the east wind, BSB BSB: “Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
3 ULT reasoning with a word{ that} does not benefit and{ with} words{ that} do not have profit in them? BSB BSB: Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?
4 ULT Indeed, you destroy fear, and you diminish devotion to the face of God, BSB BSB: But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
5 ULT for your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. BSB BSB: For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
6 ULT Your mouth condemns you, and not I, and your lips testify against you. BSB BSB: Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
7 ULT Were you born the first man, and to the face of the hills were you formed? BSB BSB: Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
8 ULT Do you hear the counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? BSB BSB: Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
9 ULT What do you know, and we do not know?{ What} do you understand, and it{ is} not with us? BSB BSB: What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
10 ULT Both the gray- haired and the aged{ are} with us, greater than your father{ in} days. BSB BSB: Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father.
11 ULT { Are} the consolations of God too small for you, or a word in gentleness to you? BSB BSB: Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?
12 ULT Why does your heart carry you away and why do your eyes flash, BSB BSB: Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
13 ULT that you turn your spirit against God and bring out words from your mouth? BSB BSB: so that you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?
14 ULT What{ is} man, that he should be pure, or that one born of a woman should be righteous? BSB BSB: What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
15 ULT Behold, he does not trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes; BSB BSB: If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
16 ULT indeed that the abominable and the corrupted, a man drinking iniquity like water! BSB BSB: how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
17 ULT I will show you; listen to me, and what I have seen, let me also recount, BSB BSB: Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,
18 ULT what the wise have declared— and not hidden— from their fathers. BSB BSB: what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,
19 ULT To them alone the land was given, and no stranger passed in their midst. BSB BSB: to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.
20 ULT All of the days of the wicked, he is writhing, and the number of years, they are reserved for the oppressor. BSB BSB: A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
21 ULT The sound of terrors{ is} in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer comes upon him. BSB BSB: Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.
22 ULT He does not believe to return from darkness, and he is selected for the sword. BSB BSB: He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.
23 ULT He{ is} wandering for bread—‘Where{ is it}?’ He knows that the day of darkness{ is} prepared at hand. BSB BSB: He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
24 ULT Distress and anguish terrify him; it overpowers him like a king ready for battle, BSB BSB: Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.
25 ULT because he has stretched out his hand against God and against the Almighty he has vaunted himself. BSB BSB: For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,
26 ULT He rushes against him with the neck, with the thickness of the bosses of his shields, BSB BSB: rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.
27 ULT though he has covered his face with his fat and made blubber on the flanks. BSB BSB: Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
28 ULT And he lives{ in} ruined cities,{ in} houses that no one dwells in, which are ready{ to be} heaps. BSB BSB: he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.
29 ULT He will not be rich, and his wealth will not stand, and their possessions will not spread over the land. BSB BSB: He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.
30 ULT He will not depart from darkness; a flame will dry up his shoots, and he will depart at the breath of his mouth. BSB BSB: He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
31 ULT Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his recompense. BSB BSB: Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
32 ULT When{ it is} not his day, it will be fulfilled, and his branch will not be green. BSB BSB: It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.
33 ULT He will shake off his unripe grapes like a grapevine, and he will cast off his blossoms like an olive tree. BSB BSB: He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
34 ULT For the company of the godless{ is} barren, and fire devours the tents of bribery. BSB BSB: For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
35 ULT They conceive trouble and bear iniquity, and their womb fashions deceit.” BSB BSB: They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
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