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Chapter 15
1 And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said:
2 Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?
3 You reprove him by words, who is not equal to you, and you speak that which is not good for you.
4 As much as is in you, you have made void fear, and have taken away prayers from before God.
5 For your iniquity has taught your mouth, and you imitate the tongue of blasphemers.
6 your own mouth shall condemn you, and not I: and your own lips shall answer you.
7 are you the first man that was born, or were you made before the hills?
8 have you heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to you?
9 What know you that we are ignorant of? what do you understand that we know not?
10 There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than your fathers.
11 Is it a great matter that God should comfort you? but your wicked words hinder this.
12 Why does your heart elevate you, and why do you stare with your eyes, as if they were thinking great things?
13 Why does your spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of your mouth?
14 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?
15 Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.
16 How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinks iniquity like water?
17 I will shew you, hear me: and I mill tell you what I have seen.
18 Wise men confess and hide not their fathers.
19 To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger has passed among them.
20 The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.
21 The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspects treason.
22 He believes not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.
23 When he moves himself to seek bread, he know that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him, as a king that is prepared for the battle.
25 For he has stretched out his hand against God, and has strengthened himself against the Almighty.
26 He has run against him with his neck raised up, and is armed with a fat neck.
27 Fatness has covered his face, and the fat hangs down on his sides.
28 He has dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps.
29 He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he push his root in the earth.
30 He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own month.
31 He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may be redeemed with any price.
32 Before his days be full he shall perish: and his hands shall wither away.
33 He shall be blasted as a vine when its grapes are in the first flower, and as an olive tree that casts its flower.
34 For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.
35 He has conceived sorrow, and has brought forth iniquity, and his womb prepares deceits.