Job 15 Darby Translation
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1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,
2 “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
3 Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
4 Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.
4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
7 Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?
7 “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
8 Hast thou listened in the secret council of God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?
8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us?
9 What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
10 Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.
10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
11 Are the consolations of God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?
11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
12 Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?
12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth?
13 that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
14 What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
14 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:
15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
16 How much less the abominable and corrupt, — man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
17 I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;
17 “I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;
18 (which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):
20 All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.
20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
21 The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.
21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword.
22 He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
23 He wandereth abroad for bread, — where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.
24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25 For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:
25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
26 He runneth against him, with [outstretched] neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;
26 he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
27 For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon [his] flanks.
27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.
28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
29 He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth.
29 He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on 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.
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 trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;
31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
32 It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.
32 It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
33 He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.
33 He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
34 For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
35 They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
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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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“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).
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