Job 15 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Eliphaz Says Job Presumes Much

Job 15:1

Job 15:1And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --

Job 15:2

Job 15:2Doth a wise man answer with vain knowledge? And fill with an east wind his belly?

Job 15:3

Job 15:3To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them?

Job 15:4

Job 15:4Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.

Job 15:5

Job 15:5For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.

Job 15:6

Job 15:6Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.

Job 15:7

Job 15:7The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?

Job 15:8

Job 15:8Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?

Job 15:9

Job 15:9What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?

Job 15:10

Job 15:10Both the gray-headed And the very aged are among us -- Greater than thy father in days.

Job 15:11

Job 15:11Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word is with thee,

Job 15:12

Job 15:12What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high?

Job 15:13

Job 15:13For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:

Job 15:14

Job 15:14What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

Job 15:15

Job 15:15Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.

Job 15:16

Job 15:16Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

What Eliphaz Has Seen of Life

Job 15:17

Job 15:17I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare:

Job 15:18

Job 15:18Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers.

Job 15:19

Job 15:19To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:

Job 15:20

Job 15:20'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.

Job 15:21

Job 15:21A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.

Job 15:22

Job 15:22He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched is he for the sword.

Job 15:23

Job 15:23He is wandering for bread -- 'Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.

Job 15:24

Job 15:24Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.

Job 15:25

Job 15:25For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.

Job 15:26

Job 15:26He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.

Job 15:27

Job 15:27For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over his confidence.

Job 15:28

Job 15:28And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.

Job 15:29

Job 15:29He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.

Job 15:30

Job 15:30He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!

Job 15:31

Job 15:31Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

Job 15:32

Job 15:32Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.

Job 15:33

Job 15:33He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.

Job 15:34

Job 15:34For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.

Job 15:35

Job 15:35To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Job 15 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Eliphaz Says Job Presumes Much

What Eliphaz Has Seen of Life

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Job Chapter 15 — Additional Translations:

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