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Job 15 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Job 15:1

Job 15:1Then Eliphaz the Thæmanite answered and said,

Job 15:2

Job 15:2Will a wise man give for answer a mere breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,

Job 15:3

Job 15:3reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit?

Job 15:4

Job 15:4Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?

Job 15:5

Job 15:5Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.

Job 15:6

Job 15:6Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: and thy lips shall testify against thee.

Job 15:7

Job 15:7What! art thou the first man that was born? or wert thou established before the hills?

Job 15:8

Job 15:8Or hast thou heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used thee as his counsellor? and has wisdom come only to thee?

Job 15:9

Job 15:9For what knowest thou, that we know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also?

Job 15:10

Job 15:10Truly among us are both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than thy father.

Job 15:11

Job 15:11Thou hast been scourged for but few of thy sins: thou hast spoken haughtily and extravagantly.

Job 15:12

Job 15:12What has thine heart dared? or what have thine eyes aimed at,

Job 15:13

Job 15:13that thou hast vented thy rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from thy mouth?

Job 15:14

Job 15:14For who, being a mortal, is such that he shall be blameless? or, who that is born of a woman, that he should be just?

Job 15:15

Job 15:15Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.

Job 15:16

Job 15:16Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

Job 15:17

Job 15:17But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have seen;

Job 15:18

Job 15:18things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.

Job 15:19

Job 15:19To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them.

Job 15:20

Job 15:20All the life of the ungodly is spent in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.

Job 15:21

Job 15:21And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.

Job 15:22

Job 15:22Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.

Job 15:23

Job 15:23And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcase: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.

Job 15:24

Job 15:24Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank.

Job 15:25

Job 15:25For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.

Job 15:26

Job 15:26And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.

Job 15:27

Job 15:27For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.

Job 15:28

Job 15:28And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.

Job 15:29

Job 15:29Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.

Job 15:30

Job 15:30Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.

Job 15:31

Job 15:31Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.

Job 15:32

Job 15:32His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.

Job 15:33

Job 15:33And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.

Job 15:34

Job 15:34For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.

Job 15:35

Job 15:35And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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