Job 15 Bible in Basic English
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1 And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,
1 Y RESPONDIÓ Eliphaz Temanita, y dijo:
2 Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?
2 ¿Si proferirá el sabio vana sabiduría, y henchirá su vientre de viento solano?
3 Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?
3 ¿Disputará con palabras inútiles, y con razones sin provecho?
4 Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.
4 Tú también disipas el temor, y menoscabas la oración delante de Dios.
5 For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
5 Porque tu boca declaró tu iniquidad, pues has escogido el hablar de los astutos.
6 It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.
6 Tu boca te condenará, y no yo; y tus labios testificarán contra ti.
7 Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?
7 ¿Naciste tú primero que Adam? ¿ó fuiste formado antes que los collados?
8 Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?
8 ¿Oíste tú el secreto de Dios, que detienes en ti solo la sabiduría?
9 What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?
9 ¿Qué sabes tú que no sepamos? ¿qué entiendes que no se halle en nosotros?
10 With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.
10 Entre nosotros también hay cano, también hay viejo mucho mayor en días que tu padre.
11 Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?
11 ¿En tan poco tienes las consolaciones de Dios? ¿tienes acaso alguna cosa oculta cerca de ti?
12 Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;
12 ¿Por qué te enajena tu corazón, y por qué guiñan tus ojos,
13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?
13 Pues haces frente á Dios con tu espíritu, y sacas [tales] palabras de tu boca?
14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
14 ¿Qué cosa es el hombre para que sea limpio, y que se justifique el nacido de mujer?
15 Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;
15 He aquí que en sus santos no confía, y ni los cielos son limpios delante de sus ojos:
16 How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
16 ¿Cuánto menos el hombre abominable y vil, que bebe la iniquidad como agua?
17 Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen:
17 Escúchame; yo te mostraré y te contaré lo que he visto:
18 (The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;
18 (Lo que los sabios nos contaron de sus padres, y no lo encubrieron;
19 For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:)
19 A los cuales solos fué dada la tierra, y no pasó extraño por medio de ellos:)
20 The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.
20 Todos los días del impío, él es atormentado de dolor, y el número de años es escondido al violento.
21 A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:
21 Estruendos espantosos hay en sus oídos; en la paz le vendrá quien lo asuele.
22 He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;
22 El no creerá que ha de volver de las tinieblas, y está mirando al cuchillo.
23 He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:
23 Desasosegado á comer siempre, sabe que le está aparejado día de tinieblas.
24 He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:
24 Tribulación y angustia le asombrarán, y esforzaránse contra él como un rey apercibido para la batalla.
25 Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,
25 Por cuanto él extendió su mano contra Dios, y se esforzó contra el Todopoderoso,
26 Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,
26 El le acometerá en la cerviz, en lo grueso de las hombreras de sus escudos:
27 Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;
27 Porque cubrió su rostro con su gordura, é hizo pliegues sobre los ijares;
28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.
28 Y habitó las ciudades asoladas, las casas inhabitadas, que estaban puestas en montones.
29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.
29 No enriquecerá, ni será firme su potencia, ni extenderá por la tierra su hermosura.
30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.
30 No se escapará de las tinieblas: la llama secará sus ramos, y con el aliento de su boca perecerá.
31 Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.
31 No confíe el iluso en la vanidad; porque ella será su recompensa.
32 His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.
32 El será cortado antes de su tiempo, y sus renuevos no reverdecerán.
33 He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.
33 El perderá su agraz como la vid, y derramará su flor como la oliva.
34 For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.
34 Porque la sociedad de los hipócritas será asolada, y fuego consumirá las tiendas de soborno.
35 Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.
35 Concibieron dolor, y parieron iniquidad; y las entrañas de ellos meditan engaño.
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Eliphaz the Temanite
One of Job's three friends who came to sympathize and comfort him, and whom the LORD rebuked at the end of the book for not speaking rightly of Him.
Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 4:1; Job 15:1
Cross references (35)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 2:11; Job 42:7; Job 4:1; Job 42:9; Job 22:1
- 2 Job 6:26; Job 8:2; Hosea 12:1; Job 11:2–3; James 3:13
- 3 Matthew 12:36–37; Colossians 4:6; Malachi 3:13–15; Job 26:1–3; 1 Timothy 6:4–5
- 4 Romans 3:31; Psalm 36:1–3; Job 6:14; 1 Chronicles 10:13–14; Galatians 2:21
- 5 Jeremiah 9:3–5; James 1:26; Luke 6:45; Psalm 52:2–4; Jeremiah 9:8
- 6 Luke 19:22; Matthew 12:37; Job 9:20; Job 40:8; Job 34:5–9
- 7 Psalm 90:2; Job 38:4–41; Job 12:12; Proverbs 8:22–25; Genesis 4:1
- 8 Romans 11:34; Jeremiah 23:18; 1 Corinthians 2:16; Psalm 25:14; Matthew 11:25
- 9 Job 13:2; 2 Corinthians 11:5; 2 Corinthians 10:7; Job 26:3–4; Job 12:3
- 10 Job 32:6–7; Job 12:12; Job 8:8–10; Deuteronomy 32:7; Proverbs 16:31
- 11 2 Corinthians 1:3–5; Job 13:2; Job 5:8–26; 1 Kings 22:24; 2 Corinthians 7:6
- 12 Psalm 35:19; Mark 7:21–22; Job 17:2; Job 11:13; James 1:14–15
- 13 James 3:2–6; Job 15:25–27; Psalm 34:13; Job 12:6; Malachi 3:13
- 14 Ecclesiastes 7:20; Job 14:4; Proverbs 20:9; Romans 7:18; Job 25:4–6
- 15 Job 25:5; Job 4:18; Isaiah 6:2–5; Job 5:1
- 16 Proverbs 19:28; Job 34:7; Romans 3:9–19; Titus 3:3; Psalm 53:3
- 17 Job 33:1; Job 13:5–6; Job 5:27; Job 34:2; Job 36:2
- 18 Job 8:8; Psalm 71:18; Isaiah 38:19; Psalm 78:3–6; Job 15:10
- 19 Joel 3:17; Deuteronomy 32:8; Genesis 10:25; Genesis 10:32
- 20 James 5:1–6; Job 27:13; Job 24:1; Luke 12:19–21; Psalm 90:12
- 21 Job 18:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Leviticus 26:36; 1 Corinthians 10:10; Job 1:13–19
- 22 Job 20:24–25; Job 27:14; Isaiah 8:21–22; Matthew 27:5; Job 19:29
- 23 Job 18:12; Psalm 109:10; Psalm 59:15; Amos 5:20; Ecclesiastes 11:8
- 24 Proverbs 6:11; Proverbs 24:34; Romans 2:9; Job 6:2–4; Psalm 119:143
- 25 Psalm 52:7; Job 9:4; Daniel 5:23; Psalm 73:9; Malachi 3:13
- 26 2 Chronicles 32:13–17; 2 Chronicles 28:22; Genesis 49:8; Psalm 18:40; Job 16:12
- 27 Psalm 17:10; Psalm 73:7; Jeremiah 5:28; Isaiah 6:10; Deuteronomy 32:15
- 28 Job 3:14; Jeremiah 51:37; Micah 7:18; Jeremiah 26:18; Jeremiah 9:11
- 29 Job 27:16–17; James 1:11; Luke 12:19–21; Psalm 49:16–17; Luke 16:19–22
- 30 Job 4:9; Job 15:22; Job 18:5–6; Job 20:26; Matthew 25:41
- 31 Isaiah 59:4; Galatians 6:3; Psalm 62:10; Galatians 6:7–8; Hosea 8:7
- 32 Ecclesiastes 7:17; Psalm 55:23; Job 22:16; Hosea 9:16; Isaiah 27:11
- 33 Deuteronomy 28:39–40; Isaiah 33:9; Revelation 6:13
- 34 Job 8:13; Job 27:8; Micah 7:2; Job 8:22; Matthew 24:51
- 35 Psalm 7:14; Hosea 10:13; Isaiah 59:4–5; James 1:15; Galatians 6:7–8
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