en_cepher - Job 15 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ THEN answered Eliyphaz the Teymaniy, and said,

² Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

³ Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

⁴ Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before El.

⁵ For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

⁶ Your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yea, your own lips testify against you.

⁷ Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?

⁸ Have you heard the secret of Eloah? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?

⁹ What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?

¹⁰ With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than your father.

¹¹ Are the consolations of El small with you? is there any secret thing with you?

¹² Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,

¹³ That you turn your ruach against El, and let such words go out of your mouth?

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

¹⁵ Behold, he puts no trust in his qodeshiym; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

¹⁶ How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?

¹⁷ I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

¹⁸ Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

¹⁹ Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

²⁰ The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

²¹ A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

²² He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

²³ He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

²⁴ Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

²⁵ For he stretches out his hand against El, and strengthens himself against El Shaddai.

²⁶ He runs upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

²⁷ Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes collops of fat on his flanks.

²⁸ And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

³¹ Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

³² It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

³³ He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

³⁴ For the assembly of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

³⁵ They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.