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Job 15 Updated Brenton English Septuagint

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LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? And does he fill up the pain of his belly,
2 “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
3 Reasoning with improper sayings, And with words wherein is no profit?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
4 Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, And accomplished such words before the Lord?
4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
5 Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, Neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.
5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
6 Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: And thy lips shall testify against thee.
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
7 What! art thou the first man that was born? Or wert thou established before the hills?
7 “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
8 Or hast thou heard the ordinance of the Lord? Or has God used thee as [his] counselor? And has wisdom come [only] to thee?
8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 For what knowest thou, that we know not? Or what understandest thou, which we do not also?
9 What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
10 Truly among us [are] both the old and very aged man, More advanced in days than thy father.
10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
11 Thou hast been scourged for [but] few of thy sins: Thou hast spoken haughtily [and] extravagantly.
11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
12 What has thy heart dared? Or what have thine eyes [aimed at],
12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
13 That thou hast vented [thy] rage before the Lord, And delivered such words from [thy] mouth?
13 that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
14 For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? Or, [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just?
14 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; And the heaven is not pure before him.
15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
16 Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, Drinking unrighteousness as a draft.
16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
17 But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have seen;
17 “I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare
18 Things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.
18 (which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
19 To them alone the earth was given, And no stranger came upon them.
19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):
20 All the life of the ungodly [is spent] in care, And the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.
20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
21 And his terror is in his ears: Just when he seems to be at peace, His overthrow will come.
21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
22 Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, For he has been already made over to the power of the sword.
22 He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
23 And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; And he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: And a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: He shall fall as a captain in the first rank.
24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25 For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, And he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.
25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
26 And he has run against him with insolence, On the thickness of the back of his shield.
26 he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
27 For he has covered his face with his fat, And made layers of fat upon his thighs.
27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
28 And let him lodge in desolate cities, And enter into houses without inhabitant: And what they have prepared, others shall carry away.
28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
29 Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: He shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.
29 He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
30 Neither shall he in anywise escape the darkness: Let the wind blast his blossom, And let his flower fall off.
30 He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
31 Let him not think that he shall endure; For his end shall be vanity.
31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
32 His harvest shall perish before the time, And his branch shall not flourish.
32 It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
33 And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, And let him fall as the blossom of the olive.
33 He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
34 For death is the witness of an ungodly man, And fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.
34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
35 And he shall conceive sorrows, And his end shall be vanity, And his belly shall bear deceit.
35 They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

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  • Eliphaz the Temanite

    First friend of Job

    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

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Cross references (35)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Job 2:11; Job 42:7; Job 4:1; Job 42:9; Job 22:1
  2. 2 Job 6:26; Job 8:2; Hosea 12:1; Job 11:2–3; James 3:13
  3. 3 Matthew 12:36–37; Colossians 4:6; Malachi 3:13–15; Job 26:1–3; 1 Timothy 6:4–5
  4. 4 Romans 3:31; Psalm 36:1–3; Job 6:14; 1 Chronicles 10:13–14; Galatians 2:21
  5. 5 Jeremiah 9:3–5; James 1:26; Luke 6:45; Psalm 52:2–4; Jeremiah 9:8
  6. 6 Luke 19:22; Matthew 12:37; Job 9:20; Job 40:8; Job 34:5–9
  7. 7 Psalm 90:2; Job 38:4–41; Job 12:12; Proverbs 8:22–25; Genesis 4:1
  8. 8 Romans 11:34; Jeremiah 23:18; 1 Corinthians 2:16; Psalm 25:14; Matthew 11:25
  9. 9 Job 13:2; 2 Corinthians 11:5; 2 Corinthians 10:7; Job 26:3–4; Job 12:3
  10. 10 Job 32:6–7; Job 12:12; Job 8:8–10; Deuteronomy 32:7; Proverbs 16:31
  11. 11 2 Corinthians 1:3–5; Job 13:2; Job 5:8–26; 1 Kings 22:24; 2 Corinthians 7:6
  12. 12 Psalm 35:19; Mark 7:21–22; Job 17:2; Job 11:13; James 1:14–15
  13. 13 James 3:2–6; Job 15:25–27; Psalm 34:13; Job 12:6; Malachi 3:13
  14. 14 Ecclesiastes 7:20; Job 14:4; Proverbs 20:9; Romans 7:18; Job 25:4–6
  15. 15 Job 25:5; Job 4:18; Isaiah 6:2–5; Job 5:1
  16. 16 Proverbs 19:28; Job 34:7; Romans 3:9–19; Titus 3:3; Psalm 53:3
  17. 17 Job 33:1; Job 13:5–6; Job 5:27; Job 34:2; Job 36:2
  18. 18 Job 8:8; Psalm 71:18; Isaiah 38:19; Psalm 78:3–6; Job 15:10
  19. 19 Joel 3:17; Deuteronomy 32:8; Genesis 10:25; Genesis 10:32
  20. 20 James 5:1–6; Job 27:13; Job 24:1; Luke 12:19–21; Psalm 90:12
  21. 21 Job 18:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Leviticus 26:36; 1 Corinthians 10:10; Job 1:13–19
  22. 22 Job 20:24–25; Job 27:14; Isaiah 8:21–22; Matthew 27:5; Job 19:29
  23. 23 Job 18:12; Psalm 109:10; Psalm 59:15; Amos 5:20; Ecclesiastes 11:8
  24. 24 Proverbs 6:11; Proverbs 24:34; Romans 2:9; Job 6:2–4; Psalm 119:143
  25. 25 Psalm 52:7; Job 9:4; Daniel 5:23; Psalm 73:9; Malachi 3:13
  26. 26 2 Chronicles 32:13–17; 2 Chronicles 28:22; Genesis 49:8; Psalm 18:40; Job 16:12
  27. 27 Psalm 17:10; Psalm 73:7; Jeremiah 5:28; Isaiah 6:10; Deuteronomy 32:15
  28. 28 Job 3:14; Jeremiah 51:37; Micah 7:18; Jeremiah 26:18; Jeremiah 9:11
  29. 29 Job 27:16–17; James 1:11; Luke 12:19–21; Psalm 49:16–17; Luke 16:19–22
  30. 30 Job 4:9; Job 15:22; Job 18:5–6; Job 20:26; Matthew 25:41
  31. 31 Isaiah 59:4; Galatians 6:3; Psalm 62:10; Galatians 6:7–8; Hosea 8:7
  32. 32 Ecclesiastes 7:17; Psalm 55:23; Job 22:16; Hosea 9:16; Isaiah 27:11
  33. 33 Deuteronomy 28:39–40; Isaiah 33:9; Revelation 6:13
  34. 34 Job 8:13; Job 27:8; Micah 7:2; Job 8:22; Matthew 24:51
  35. 35 Psalm 7:14; Hosea 10:13; Isaiah 59:4–5; James 1:15; Galatians 6:7–8

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 15:26 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book VII, Chapters VII–IX)

    But when I lifted myself proudly against Thee, and "ran against the Lord, even on His neck, with the thick bosses" of my buckler, even these inferior things were placed above me, and pressed upon me, and nowhere was there alleviation or breathing space.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  2. Quotes verse 15:13 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVI, Chapters 3–4)

    … the Lord;" for enantion means both "before" and "against." In the Psalm this word is rendered, "Let us weep before the Lord our Maker." The same word occurs in the book of Job, where it is written, "Thou hast broken into fury against the Lord." And so this giant is to be recognized as a "hunter against the Lord." And …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  3. Quotes verse 15:26 Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm XLVI)

    "He runneth against God, upon the stiff neck of his shield." What is, "upon the stiff neck of his shield"?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)