en_wbms - Job 15 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answer-ed, and said,

² Whether a wise man shall answer, as speaking against the wind, and shall fill his stomach with burning, that is ire?

³ For thou reprovest him by words, which is not like thee, and thou speakest that, that speedeth not to thee.

⁴ As much as is in thee, thou hast avoided dread; and thou hast taken away thy prayers before God.

⁵ For [thy] wickedness hath taught thy mouth, and thou pursuest [or followest] the tongue of blasphemers.

⁶ Thy tongue [or Thy mouth], and not I, shall condemn thee, and thy lips shall answer thee.

⁷ Whether thou art born the first man, and whether thou art formed before little hills?

⁸ Whether thou hast heard the counsel of God, and whether his wisdom is lower than thou?

⁹ What thing knowest thou, which we know not? What thing under-standest thou, which we know not?

¹⁰ Both wise men and eld, much elder than thy fathers, be among us.

¹¹ Whether it is great, that God comfort thee? But thy shrewd words forbid this.

¹² What raiseth thine heart thee, and thou as thinking great things hast eyes astonied?

¹³ What swelleth thy spirit against God, that thou bring forth of thy mouth such words?

¹⁴ What is a man, that he be without wem, and that he, born of a woman, appear just [or rightwise]?

¹⁵ Lo! none among his saints is unchangeable, and heavens be not clean in his sight.

¹⁶ How much more is a man abominable and unprofitable, that drinketh wickedness as water?

¹⁷ I shall show to thee, hear thou me; I shall tell to thee that, that I saw.

¹⁸ Wise men acknowledge, and hide not their fathers.

¹⁹ To which wise men alone the earth is given, and an alien shall not pass by them.

²⁰ A wicked man is proud in all his days; and the number of his years and of his tyranny is uncertain.

²¹ The sound of dread is ever[more] in his ears, and when peace is, he supposeth ever[more] treasons.

²² He believeth not that he may turn again from darknesses to light; and he beholdeth about on each side for a sword.

²³ When he stirreth him[self] to seek bread, he knoweth, that the day of darknesses is made ready in his hand.

²⁴ Tribulation shall make him afeared, and anguish shall encompass him, as a king which is made ready to battle.

²⁵ For he held forth his hand against God, and he was made strong against Almighty God.

²⁶ He ran with his neck raised up against God, and he was armed with a fat noll.

²⁷ Fatness, that is, pride of temporal abundance, covered his face, or understanding, and outward fatness, that is, unshamefastness, hangeth down of his sides. [Fatness covered his face, and of his sides grease hangeth.]

²⁸ He shall dwell in desolate cities, and in deserted houses, that be turned into burials.

²⁹ He shall not be made rich, neither his chattel shall dwell steadfastly; neither he shall send his root into the earth,

³⁰ neither he shall go away from darknesses. Flame shall make dry his branches, and he shall be taken away by the spirit of his mouth.

³¹ Believe he not vainly which is deceived by error, that he shall be again-bought by any price.

³² Before that his days be [ful] filled, he shall perish, and his hands shall wax dry;

³³ he shall be hurt as a vine in the first flower of his grape, and as an olive tree casting away his flower.

³⁴ For the gathering together of an hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour the tabernacles of them, that take gifts willfully.

³⁵ He conceived sorrow, and childed wickedness, and his womb maketh ready treacheries.