Job 15 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

Eliphaz’s Second Response to Job

Job 15:1

Job 15:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Job 15:2

Job 15:2“A wise man wouldn’t answer with such empty talk!
You are nothing but a windbag.

Job 15:3

Job 15:3The wise don’t engage in empty chatter.
What good are such words?

Job 15:4

Job 15:4Have you no fear of God,
no reverence for him?

Job 15:5

Job 15:5Your sins are telling your mouth what to say.
Your words are based on clever deception.

Job 15:6

Job 15:6Your own mouth condemns you, not I.
Your own lips testify against you.

Job 15:7

Job 15:7“Were you the first person ever born?
Were you born before the hills were made?

Job 15:8

Job 15:8Were you listening at God’s secret council?
Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?

Job 15:9

Job 15:9What do you know that we don’t?
What do you understand that we do not?

Job 15:10

Job 15:10On our side are aged, gray-haired men
much older than your father!

Job 15:11

Job 15:11“Is God’s comfort too little for you?
Is his gentle word not enough?

Job 15:12

Job 15:12What has taken away your reason?
What has weakened your vision,[fn]

Job 15:13

Job 15:13that you turn against God
and say all these evil things?

Job 15:14

Job 15:14Can any mortal be pure?
Can anyone born of a woman be just?

Job 15:15

Job 15:15Look, God does not even trust the angels.[fn]
Even the heavens are not absolutely pure in his sight.

Job 15:16

Job 15:16How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person
with a thirst for wickedness!

Job 15:17

Job 15:17“If you will listen, I will show you.
I will answer you from my own experience.

Job 15:18

Job 15:18And it is confirmed by the reports of wise men
who have heard the same thing from their fathers—

Job 15:19

Job 15:19from those to whom the land was given
long before any foreigners arrived.

Job 15:20

Job 15:20“The wicked writhe in pain throughout their lives.
Years of trouble are stored up for the ruthless.

Job 15:21

Job 15:21The sound of terror rings in their ears,
and even on good days they fear the attack of the destroyer.

Job 15:22

Job 15:22They dare not go out into the darkness
for fear they will be murdered.

Job 15:23

Job 15:23They wander around, saying, ‘Where can I find bread?’[fn]
They know their day of destruction is near.

Job 15:24

Job 15:24That dark day terrifies them.
They live in distress and anguish,
like a king preparing for battle.

Job 15:25

Job 15:25For they shake their fists at God,
defying the Almighty.

Job 15:26

Job 15:26Holding their strong shields,
they defiantly charge against him.

Job 15:27

Job 15:27“These wicked people are heavy and prosperous;
their waists bulge with fat.

Job 15:28

Job 15:28But their cities will be ruined.
They will live in abandoned houses
that are ready to tumble down.

Job 15:29

Job 15:29Their riches will not last,
and their wealth will not endure.
Their possessions will no longer spread across the horizon.

Job 15:30

Job 15:30“They will not escape the darkness.
The burning sun will wither their shoots,
and the breath of God will destroy them.

Job 15:31

Job 15:31Let them no longer fool themselves by trusting in empty riches,
for emptiness will be their only reward.

Job 15:32

Job 15:32Like trees, they will be cut down in the prime of life;
their branches will never again be green.

Job 15:33

Job 15:33They will be like a vine whose grapes are harvested too early,
like an olive tree that loses its blossoms before the fruit can form.

Job 15:34

Job 15:34For the godless are barren.
Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn.

Job 15:35

Job 15:35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
Their womb produces deceit.”

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NLT Footnotes

(15:12)

Or Why do your eyes flash with anger; Hebrew reads Why do your eyes blink.

(15:15)

Hebrew the holy ones.

(15:23)

Greek version reads He is appointed to be food for a vulture.

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